Surfing in the Great Lakes - Red Bull New Wave

There is surfing on the Great Lakes.

Indigenous Boats: The Ultimate Fashion Accessory

Indigenous Boats: The Ultimate Fashion Accessory: "From yesterday's New York Times Magazine. LOL."

Dolphins Surfing

Wave Garden - The future is now.

Fascinating technology providing peeling waves in the north of Spain. Wave Garden.

Flextrek 37trillion

These guys need to do some promo work for BIG Surfco.

Cherry Fins!

The latest from John Cherry. I have never seen Tatoo designs on fins before this. I really love the fact that the designs were burned in and then watercolored. Huzzah!

Kon Tiki, meet An-Tiki

An-Tiki

40x18 foot raft made of plastic water pipes

The journey

Follow their journey and be sure to check out the super cool global tracking map by Yellowbrick.

Orcas off Manhattan Beach

Late January saw a rare visit from some migrating Orcas.
Read more at the Easy Reader.

Photo by She Nebrida

The Blog of Morgan Hoesterey

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Plywood Box Barge Boats... Bitchin.

Drive - Evolution of the Surfboard Fin

The video is long but there is a brief clip from an interview with Tom Blake, the first known man to put a fin on a surfboard.

Restoring the Duke's Chief

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Wa'apa by Joao Rivera

Detailed photos at http://kiaoratearoa.blogspot.com/

Tom Blake's Waikiki Surf Club Card 1951

Courtesy of the Sufing Heritage Foundation - Gem of the Week!

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The Flying 15

An interesting little boat for sale on ebay.
Update: she sold for $830 dollars... trailer included.

A Man Called "Canoe" Part 2

This photo was donated by the Bascom family and was given to Willard Bascom by Ron Drummond. On the back of the photo is a handwritten note which reads:

"The inner peace that comes with the quiet contemplation of a beach on a still calm morning, or the feeling of exhilaration that comes from riding a great wave in a small boat, is more reward than most will ever know." 

Willard Bascom

This we have in common!

Sincerely,

Ron Drummond

via the surfing heritage foundation

Update (2017): I spoke with Ron Drummond's nephew, Tom, a few years ago and he informed me that "the surfer sitting just of Ron's bow is none other than Duke Kahanamoku". Well, I'll be a pickled popsicle stick(le).

31 Days/31 Ways - Byron Bay

More great work from LL Hill. Via.

French Twins

I stumbled across these traveling french twins via 70.8%
Apparently they have an inclination towards wooden paddleboards, surfboards and sailing craft. Huzzah! to Emmanuel and Maximilien Berque.

Apparently Wood Boards Started with Bob Simmons

 

Suffering from a SoCal Lobotomy - modern history is being re-written in Japan. Apparently wooden surfboard building began with Bob Simmons and ended with Clark foam. Although, for the first time outside of New Zealand, the word "Flex" is being used as a positive in surfboard design. My prediction; one day many of the hipster elitist and socal old boys will ride on Stewart inspired craft - but they will not do it knowingly or admittedly - it will come from Japan... or something like that. Enough conspiracy theories for a Sunday morning. I got work to do.