SYDNEY SURF AUCTION

Lots of very nice boards were up for auction this year.

The three at bottom right are. 

A Greg Noll 'Fains Formula'.

A Dewey Webber with a hatchet fin.

And a restored Bing 'Nuuhiwa Noserider'.

Three balsa pigs were also up for grabs.

As were many imaculate 70's single fins.

THE EYES HAVE IT

Ever feel like you are being watched.

Every day when I sit out on the deck having my lunch

these guys show up.

Mind you the chooks spend most their time there.

WOOD IS GOOD

 Bill Cilia, a mate of mine and surfboard builder (nirvana surfboards )

 has been restoring a balsa pig.

   The photos show Bill and the board through various stages of the restoration.

Unfortunately it is a no name, but the blank glue up and construction

was done by someone with a fair bit of skill for the time.

The timber fin was left intact, cleaned up and re glassed.

The board is 9ft long by 20 inches wide.

Viva the pig.

LESLEY ADAMSKI

I've posted this image before.

Have a look here 

There is a feature on Lesley Adamski at left, and her wooden surfboards.

Well worth a look.

WOOD IS GOOD

 A bit of a teaser.

Stay tuned. 

GW

Just in.

Ding repairs and a polish.

This is a rider.

Soon to be seen at old mal comps.

SIMON ANDERSON

I've restored five or six boards

for the owner of this board over the last few years.

He rides them all from time to time.

This is the first board he wanted me to do.

But this is one board he wouldn't be riding

so it was always put off.

But not any more.

It has been started.

At last.

REFLECTIONS

Sometimes it's hard to shoot images of glossed boards

without getting some reflection.

I enjoy seeing it on boards in other blogs.

WHERE'S MY PHONE!

If you value your mobile phone don't do what I did this morning.

I went out to do some work on the Kombi

I put my phone on my partners care while I unlocked mine

and promptly forgot about it.

When she left for work, I watched her drive away.

She soon returned. She had forgotten her watch.

Again I watched her drive away.

Phone still on the roof.

Where's my phone I soon wondered.

Doh!

I found it about 200 metres past where she said she turned around. 

THE BOUDDI GRAND DEEP

We are pretty lucky to have this virtually in our backyard.

To get to this vantage point is about a 15 minute walk.

You wouldn't think that civilization is less than a kilometer away.

TO BIG FOR ME

Friday the 13th.

The bottom two images are of a

offshore bommie that only breaks when it is big.

HI - RIDER by HARTLEYS

Out of Victoria.

Could be a sports store or a hardware.

Definitely pro built.

Pretty dinged up.

But worth fixing.

Ready for some glass.

ANGRY SEA

KEYO PLASTIC MACHINE

This board has been laying in its owners backyard

for who knows how long.

To short and to new to ride in old mal comps,

it was left in old mal limbo, waiting for the right moment

to be remembered.

That moment came thanks to its owner reading

Bob McTavish's book

"Stoked"

The penny dropped.

I think I've got one of those "Plastic Machines"

laying around in the back yard somewhere.

8'2" long

by a little over 24" wide.

GLASS SAFE-SET

I've been meaning to do this for a while now.

I got hold of this Peter Clarke Tracker

with a Safe -Set box.

The fin that came with it is in great condition but too small.

Original fins are hard to come by, and by now are pretty brittle.

So I set about making a new glass fin to fit the original box.

I had some off cuts of a few layers of 4oz.

I cut them to fit the box and taped them together.

Next a small bog radius was put inside to hold things together.

Some glass tubing was cut and holes drilled in the bottom

of the box.

Then everything was fitted and screwed in place.

A total of three pours were made to fill the box. 

Pours finished and ready for some detailing.

Fitted.

 All I need to do now is restore the board.

GORDON WOODS EGG

Finished at last.

I took it on its maiden voyage on Saturday.

The waves were a little inconsistent

but when they came threw they were good

3' to 4' local point.

Here are some initial observations.

Very loose. I could tell it was going to bee loose when paddling out.

Very skatey when when going slow.

As soon as the wave walled up and the board gained some speed

it was like riding another board.

Still loose, but it tracked more and went where I wanted it to.

Bare in mind it is early days yet, but it feels like it is going to be a regular ride.

I found my self in places on the wave rarely visited.

GORDON WOODS EGG

Freshly glossed deck.

DALE V-BOTTOM UPDATE

Glossed on Friday.

Wet and dry and polish next friday.

Hopefully.

GORDON WOODS EGG

Things are progressing.

The second bottom lam was done last weekend.

The fin has been set.

It's a Safe Set copy.

Set 14" up.

The bottom has been filler coated.

A bit of camber there.

New logo to hide that large gash in the deck lamed.

The deck has been sanded ready for gloss.

DILLON POCKET ROCKET

I swapped a 70's San Juan single fin

for this Scott Dillon pocket rocket. 

The deck is good.

The bottom needs work.

I've got a spare

Safe Set fin box lying around

that will slot straight into that hole.