Hey there! We enjoyed a fun trip up to Sacred Craft in Ventura on April 10-11. As always, it was wonderful to see friends and what everyone was up to. There were many beautiful boards and the adventure was varied throughout the weekend. Early on Saturday morning we laid out some of our favorite Pendoflex rides at the surfboard demo and they all were ridden multiple times, we’re so stoked to see the boards enjoyed! During the weekend, we helped out at the Groundswell Society booth and had fun talking story with friends who stopped by. We also leant support to the Antique Roadshow event and enjoyed helping appraise a few historic boards. Some of our favorite highlights of the show were seeing friends, surfboards, surfboards, surfboards—many built by friends, the Antique Roadshow, the Surfing Heritage Foundation’s Boards of Rincon exhibit curated by Barry Hahn, the Tribute to the Masters Shape-off in Honor of Renny Yater which was won by the amazing soul shaper Wayne Rich, our brilliant and very kind friend Carl Ekstrom winning the Best of Show for his 5’8″ asymmetrical fish, and Danny Hess’s and the Wegeners’ sweet boards. The show was fun, busy and sometimes hectic, so Cyrus Sutton’s Korduroy film festival lounge was a welcome respite from the hyper-energy. We wish we had photos of every gorgeous board and booth, and to those who are not shown, please know you are appreciated, too. Many thanks go to Scott Bass and his family for a great show weekend. We hope that you enjoy the photos, thanks for stopping by. Cowa-flexit, Aloha!
Fun C street, early Saturday morning
The pelicans were enjoying the fun waves, too!
Pendoflex boards and our 4th Gear flyer at the Saturday morning demo
Hess and Pendoflex and fun waves!
Rosa with the beautiful Wegener boards. We saw Jon flying very fast down the line on his new Bluegill!
Lyle and Steve at the demo!
Grandmaster shaper Renny Yater
Here's Barry Hahn appraising an exquisite Tom Blake paddle board
Reno helped appraise this Bolt he had shaped for MR in the 1970s
Bird Huffman appraising a rare Hynson II prototype
Cyrus and Stephan at the Korduroy film fest lounge
Keep and eye out for Stoked and Broke, korduroy.tv
Artist Kevin Ancel painted this amazing Griffin-inspired mind's eye
Our beautiful shaper and musician friend Ashley Lloyd is glowing!
Beautiful boards by Zeph Carrigg
Danny and Lyle at the Hess Surfboards booth
Daniel Thomson and Steve
George with his vintage Paul Gross spoon, circa 1974
Simmons, Quigg and Kivlin boards at the Surfing Heritage Foundation "Boards of Rincon" exhibit
Bob Simmons surfing Rincon in 1947, Reynolds Yater archives
Joe Quigg surfing Rincon in 1953, Reynolds Yater archives
Steve Pendo and Steve Biegler, stoked!
Ian O and his sweet daughter Ginger made a super-dooper loop around the show
Long-time friend Bill Bahne and his son
Sweet Surf Sista' and her son with Cher, bionic surfing women! Sista' has the blog http://surfandthefury.blogspot.com/
The Pendoflex Fang was shown in the United by Insanity booth
Wayne Rich signing his winning board, congratulations, Wayne-O!
14/04/2010 at 9:34 pm Permalink
What a fantastic account of the Sacred Craft weekend! Thanks for such a great post. Jay and I plan on going next year. Aloha.
15/04/2010 at 1:58 pm Permalink
Hi, Jamie! thanks for your kind words, we’re so glad that you enjoyed the post, it was fun to do. We look forward to seeing you and Jay.
Warm Aloha, Cher and Steve
18/04/2010 at 2:05 pm Permalink
Thanks for helping George understand flex. It’s nice to share the stoke. Guerdon.
02/05/2010 at 11:47 am Permalink
Hi, Guerdon, thanks for your comment. It’s a pleasure to spend time with George and talk story together.
Cowa-flexit!
Steve and Cher