Passing Fronts

Catching the tail end of a passing front finally put up some offshore winds to clean up a fun swell the other day. I choose to go after the occasional shoulder amid the majority of close outs over moving up the road to a slightly better wave that was swamped with at least 100 angry people trying to battle it out. One good sized set did put its mark on the new fish though wraping the leash around the tail and making a good sized cut.

Body Surf

Some fun waves mae it through at the normal mellow trail1.

Welcome to RI

This seems to be typical RI. The ocasional decent swell, offshore wind and people dropping in on you. Pic I took in Matunuck from one of the hurricanes earlier this Fall.

Carib

Picture I took a few years ago on a trip to Saint Kitts. Very fun wave, better rights than this left but I liked the feel of the picture. 

Finless fun

Finless from Neto Nomads on Vimeo.

Franken board finless for the first time.  Pretty fun way to use some small waves.

Noll Log

Great old Greg Noll board my friend stumbled upon.  Stringer work is very impressive.  Overall in very good condition only some small dings and discoloration here and there that for now are going to stay until someday it gets restored.

bar

Ole's in San Clemente representing.

Good times.

Epoxy stingerless 5'8" on a fun day.

Hurricane

Managed to score a few fun waves this past week during the latest hurricane swell.  Deep Hole, RI.



New Ride

The new 5'6" travel board.  Few little tweaks of the green and blue 5'5" thumbtail that had been my daily rider for a while.  Added an inch to the length and gave it a tiny squash, changed from twin/single to thruster set up and threw in some carbon stringers.  Expect to see a lot more of this board in up coming pics. 

Irene

Ready to shred all sorts of people showed up to try to surf, dry suit top and 18" fin.

Nothing like some obsticals for the morning drive.

Low tide mush.

After the hurricane headed up to RI to get some wave.  Early on its was some very fun left overs with a good offshore breeze and not to crowded.  Rapidly fell apart though as the tide drained out, crowds filled in and the wind went side shore.

Cruiseing

Haven't been in the water in a bit with working on moving.  Hope that changes soon.

New boardz

Shaping up a new 5'6" for the Caribbean.  Small low rocker blunt nose with a tiny squash tail.

Treasure

Time to go exploreing.

Evening time

Non surf at the beach.

Foxes

New boards on different waves always R+D.

Globe Year Zero movie premier

Went to the Globe surf movie the other night good times with an fun inside set up complete with teepee and then the outdoor drive in style movie showing complete with open bar and fire dancers.  Thanks to Herb for hooking us up with a good time and doing the art direction on it.  Check out the full photoset here!

New stick again

Starting up a new 5'6" for myself for the boat trip.  Shaping down from a 5'10"MF blank. 

Quick pic

Little fun wave.

Venice

Venice drum circle.  Most of the trash ends in the ocean.

Woody

Eagle Talon birch fin.

Wave time

Little evening session from a few weeks ago pre foot injury.

Jellies

Better hanging on the wall than in the line up. Carolyn painted this one up after a visit to the aquarium.

Summer time

First left on the Eagle Claw.  Worked well through the flat sections which were all over the place that day.  Have not been on a bigger twin fin fish in a while it was fun to get back on and cruise.

Took out some board to try out at trails. 

Starting up a new stick for myself for the upcoming boat trip.  Going to go on hold for a bit until I am off crutchs though.

New video

Making a board from NetoShapes on Vimeo.

New little video I made.  Some random clips on makeing a board. 

The good and the bad

Great day of waves ending in a not so great final one in.  Fin to the heel and trip to the ER. 

More looking down

Few more from the pier last week.

Looking down on you

Few shots off the pier from last week.  Mike visiting from OR in the first one.  Should have been there an hour earlier!

Fly like an Eagle

Eagle claw all ready to rock.   Where to start.... 5'8", pretty flat deck, carbon stringer reinforcements, wings to eagle claw tail, exaggerated belly in the nose on the bottom running into a nice mellow single concave exiting out a channel in back with a slight V past the wings, Neto original birch twin fins and boxy rails through the  midsection.  Board feels great beefed up glass to hold up but still very light.  Keep tuned to see how it rides.

Happy 4th.

Few pictures from a while ago.  Have a great 4th.