Abalone Easter

We had a great weekend. The surf was good the diving was great and having abalone for easter dinner topped it all off. I can't give you any pictures of the surf but here is our dinner a few minutes after it left the water. I have been working on a quite a few surfboard projects in the wee hours of the morning recently so I will be posting pictures from those soon. Jake

Early Morning Blue Green

My Friend Julian and I met early yesterday morning and got a little crazy with our blue and green resin cups. This is the product of the insanity that ensued.I think this is called a Mexican blanket only in blues and greens. Pretty Sweet.

Truck Full of Ding Repair

The other day Leslie unloaded her garage into the back of my truck. Most of these boards are badly damaged but they will be perfect for honing my ding repair skills. My wife was stoked as well because she wants to get in on the ding repair action as well, not to mention that when the boards are fixed we get to ride them. I love riding different shapes and sizes of boards, I always learn so much. Thanks Les

Lamination

Been working on my laminating skills recently and I am starting to get more comfortable. This is one of a couple clears in the works right now.

Jake

Glassing With Fatty

I have been spending a bunch of time over at Fatty Fiberglass trying to learn all I can before she is gone. See Fatty met an Alaskan man who has stolen her heart and consequently our glasser is acquiring arctic gear and having big yard sales in anticipation of moving up north. I have been working with Fatty for a year and a half now but time is running out so i have been making time to get over there so i can figure this stuff out before i am on my own. Here are some shots from this week at Fatty Fiberglass.

The board with the blue tail and green stripe is mine and I will be glassing it next week

Red and orange were everywhere

Crazy abstract panel 

What A Day

5'8"x 19 3/4 x 2 5/8

3'2" x 40lbs x almost 3 yrs.

Today was one of the first sunny days in mendo land and it was just too nice to work. I got in the bay with one of the High School kids this morning and we finished off his senior project board then I went to the beach with the family. The waves were around waist high with some nice peaks coming through and I got to pull my son around on a boogie board in the river. I surfed my 5'6" Larry Mabile twin keel fish, then we came home built a fire and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. What a day !

Planers

The Planer I am using

The Planer I want someday, the accurate JN2