Happy Birthday!

I started shaping this board for my mates kid the week he was born....a whole year ago! It's largely been ignored, first waiting for the foot prints and then for me to finish glassing it! Got it finished the other day just in time for his first birthday. Resin tint stripes, wonky pinlines and the best polish i've done to date. Single fcs fin setup.

Paul's Plane

50cm obeche plane with triple walnut stringers and a bulbed handgrip. Shaped for my uncles 50th birthday.......its never too late to start surfing!

Bodysurf

Had a great little bodysurf at a local little shoredump. Got some great cover ups and would have had some great POV video with the gopro if i'd put a memory card in! Thanks to Big Dave for taking photos!

Peekaboo!

The fuss is justified!

Recently I made my own version of the mini simmons design. Even though it ended up really heavy due to some resiny disagreements. but I have been surfing it quite alot lately and love it. The design just works! I'm now itching to build another version, maybe moving slightly away from the true design. Anyway here are some boards that are inspiring me at present...

Winter preparation/boredom equals...

Some baby side bites to go with my recently re-foiled flex fin. Hoping this will add a little more grip when the waves get a bit bigger..........and judging by this weeks report for Thurso it won't have to wait very long!

Shit Happens...

The mini simmons I was making took a turn for the worse, had a total resin diaster with mixes going off to fast, drying tacky etc...
I was going to leave it as a reminder of what not to do but decided to just fin it, spray it with lacquer and surf it....whats the worse that could happen?

The North Sea Shit     5'6" x 22" x 3"

Its in the name!

I've have been looking at surf mats for a few months now and conveniently this one popped up on ebay. Its a 4th Gear Flyer Tracker Roundtail made by Paul Gross. This was an early Christmas present from my fiancee :-)

Had it out today in 2ft clean surf, definately a little wierd first, first couple of waves the mat folded under me throwing me off but soon started to get to grips with it...............and its loads of fun! Can't wait to get it out in something with a little more juice!