Mug Shots

Current boards as of today, it changes often. The ones that have been around a while stay because they ride well. From the right:
6'3" rounded pin thruster
5'10" squash tail thruster with carbon
5'7 3/8" Eagle claw tail single fin with carbon
5'9" modern fish tail thruster
5'6" mini squash tail thruster with carbon
5'3" modified diamond tail single fin
Size M S-glass moon tail skimboard
The little guy up high is the diamond tail hand plane

Hourglass Close up

Since finishing the hourglass board we have had one poor day of swell so hasn't been ridden as much as it should. However here are a couple pics to get a better idea of the board. The top is while glassing, you can see how it is a simple mellow outline and boxy rails with a fairly flat deck to conserve volume.

The bottom is a little different than your average. The black channels are 2" wide x 1.5" deep and 15" long. Also has some small wings to narrow up the tail and a small battail to help it paddle fast. On the really tiny boards it is all a balance of keeping enough volume to be usable and try to keep it fast enough to paddle. When it gets steeper the lack of rail length and the boxy rails can make the board a little sketchy so for this board I went with a single fin so it could hopefully hold tight and be more adjustable.

Shapes

A new 5'10" squash on the table. This pair of boards are made with summer in mind fun with a tad extra volume so you can get on it more. Both should be done in the near future since they got put on hold for a couple other projects.

Fresh waves

Cool little standing wave that was forming in a stream so I snapped some pictures. Bigger than whats been breaking in New England the last few weeks.

Spring Glassing

Starting up the marble on the new fish. The new 5'10" hiding in the upper corner of the room. Nice and light so far.

Fresh fish

New 5'9" fish in the works. Pretty classic shape.

Ghosts at work

Some speedy sanding going down.



Spreading extra care on each board.

Spring is rollin in

New blanks and new shapes for the Spring. Started up a 5'9" fish and 5'10" squash tail this weekend. Up for grabs still if you want one.

Worth watching

Gabriel Medina // Hawaiian Short Film from Grupo SAL on Vimeo.

Rides waves like a mini ramp. Pretty insane hope this is just the beginning.

The real hourglass

Sorry for the dull pictures I got excited and took them before I was done cleaning the last of the dust. New hourglass is done. Single fin with two large channels.

Hola amigos

Victoria Skimboards - Melaque Mini Part 1 from Jonathan Howell on Vimeo.

Preview of some friends down in Melaque Mexico this week. Check it out its fun and its short! Wish I was there.

Hourglass

Just put down the glass on the new Hourglass. Can't wait to give it a ride soon. Busy month coming up so stay tuned for a lot more.

Working to play

With any project you have to have your least favorite part, sanding is mine. To counter that I am making a concerted effort to try and enjoy it and make it better who knows someday I may love sanding most. My problem is besides the dust and time is that the whole time I am thinking about how close I am to riding it. Waves are constantly running through my mind and all I want to do is try out the board.



Another empty

Little RI right to keep the mind busy.

Eye on the prize

How many wave pictures have you seen? Some how it never gets old and still excites you every time you see an empty face or beckoning pocket. Took this in St. Kitts a long time ago on a little break that offered up some great waves.

Think Small

New stick in the works. This one is for me which is fun to be able to have no restrictions. Not sure what it is going to be exactly thinking 5'3" single fin. Just going with the flow and will see what happens.

Italian

The year before Jersey Shore came out.

Past 2

Another old cell phone pic I found. 5'8" twin fin for one of the guys over at Bond Snowboarding.

Past

Found some old pics on my cell phone will post them up. Single fin fun board.

Beach Fire

Beachfire posted up picture of mine. If you are in San Clemente stop in for happy hour!

Few more

Couple fun little waves from the last few weeks. With water temps creeping down sessions are getting shorter.

Cold and welcoming

Fun day of strong offshores and good swell. The camera did not like the cold and wind and most pictures ended up full of fog. Would have been real good if 5mil suits didn't make duckdiving suck.

Gerry pulling in for a little closeout section.

Last of 2011

Finaly got some swell and warm weather. The bouys read 17' at 11 sec with 35mph wind so that is about 7' faces on the sets for RI. The tide was a little high and it was super hard to find the good peak before you got cleaned up by a set.

Clips

Transportation

Friends old garage built in the 1800's. Something about tools and materials and know how that has always intrigued me. Being able to build something that is useful and can give you the freedom to do what ever you want is a skill not everyone has but is invaluable. The ultimate dream has always been to build a epic barn on the ocean that can house a workshop capable of building boats, surfboards, motorcycles and fabricating tools.

Misty Mornin

I like this shot of RI because it really shows the early winter feel. Not all that inviting but at least the flag is blowing offshore!

Paint it

Fin painting by Carolyn.

Rainy offshore

Scored some fun waves today in RI nice and empty for a few hours before the masses showed up.

Space

Putting the finishing touches on a new work shop area, multi purpose room for building surf , sailing and any other stuff.

Throwback

Old pier shot.

More Carib

Another pic I took in the Caribbean. Should be there ths winter but didnt work out, next year though!

Right

Hurricane surf in RI.

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.