Here’s a few of the Pendoflex boards that will be at the Patagonia Cardiff store later this week! We are stoked and honored to build these boards for Patagonia Cardiff. The three boards shown here are all special, hand-shaped EPS, with epoxy glassing. Thanks for being online to check this out. Stay tuned for photos of the other boards, to come.
Come by the store and check them out!
Thanks, Devon, Jon and crew. . .
Patagonia Cardiff
2185 San Elijo Ave
Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA 92007
phone: (760) 634-9886
fax: (760) 632-8623
Pendoflex Chaser 5'9 twin, hand-shaped EPS
Pendoflex Mercury 6'3 quad, hand-shaped EPS
Pendoflex Hullabaloo 6'9 single fin, hand-shaped EPS
This morning revealed fog floating above the surf line at dawn. As the sun came up and began to warm the coastline, wisps of fog moved back and forth over the water, creating beautiful plays of light and color on the ocean. The surf is smaller this morning, with shorter intervals than the last few days. Looks like a fun morning for surf at the beachie!
A single fin foil with elements of lift designed into the rail line, the board was designed to go right, with a thicker rail on the inside rail, tapering back to a blade from the center back to the tail, thus the designation Little Wing. Little Wing was designed and shaped by Steve. The beautiful resin color work and glassing was done by Webster, working with United by Insanity. Little Wing was on display in the United by Insanity booth at Sacred Craft.
Little Wing was inspired by an edge board made by John Riddle in the early 1970s, when Bunker Spreckles was living here. Bunker is known for his forward thinking surfing and designs, and his hard down rail edge boards. The edge boards were really fast and maneuverable “on top of the water” boards. Steve rode these original wings. He says “you had to paddle it on the right side of the board, not in the center, as you’d expect. Also, when standing up and riding the board, you had to be on the right rail (inside rail, wave face side) and press hard with the edges. Of course, by design, whenever you needed to do a cut back or redirect, the Wing would just slice you right back into the pocket and back onto that right front rail, to drive on.” Steve says “Hoo-ti-hoo!”
Both boards are available from United by Insanity.
Recently Tyler has been living in New Zealand’s Northland, and this week is back in San Diego for a visit with his family. Here are Tyler and Steve with Ty’s new four fin fish. This morning we were blessed with some fun 2-3 foot NW windswell at Ocean Beach. We had fun sharing waves with Ty by the little jetty. It was fun to see him shred on his new fish! Whooo!
Cowa-fexit!
Tyler's new fish
Tyler did a nice drawing of a sun that we glassed on the deck
Here’s a photo of our family Hullabaloo. It’s a fun, versatile little six foot board that is about 20-3/4″ wide and has a slight belly in the nose. This board has three fins, but the design works well as a single fin or a quad, as well. Steve glassed this one with avocado green and light blue resin color just for fun. She goes really well!
Cowa-flexit!
A large crowd of well-wishers gathered on Byron Bays Main Beach this morning to show their support for five daring environmental campaigners who have begun a 36 day voyage by sea to Sydney to highlight the plight of migrating humpback whales and to draw awareness to coastal pollution issues.
Dubbed Transparentsea, the odyssey is an initiative of professional surfer Dave Rastovich, an environmental crusader who is joined on his quest by Californian surfer and artist Chris Del Moro (San Diego, CA, USA), Musician Will Conner (AUS), Photographer Hilton Dawe (Byron Bay, NSW, AUS) and Surfrider Foundations Kristy Theissling (Coolangatta, QLD, AUS).
Wishing Dave and his comrades well on their journey, safe travels.
Overview courtesy NZGreenroom3
Thank you Lord for the beautiful morning moonset over the sea, windswept by our first real bluster of Fall. We went on our early morning walk and the brisk wind and fresh air felt so good! We are grateful to live our lives and surf in a homeland that we love. Love and Aloha!
Powerful, so powerful, Your glory fills the skies, Your mighty
Works displayed for all to see, the beauty of Your majesty
Awakes my heart to sing; how marvelous, how wonderful You are!
You opened my eyes to Your wonders anew
You captured my heart with this Love
‘Cause nothing on earth is as beautiful as You
My soul, my soul must sing, my soul, my soul must sing
My soul, my soul must sing, Beautiful One
