Asymmetrical 5’8” single fin

      

Look at each half as an individual… you know it makes sense.

5’8” x 20 1/2” x 2 3/8” with double concave spiral V and hull nose.

Will be an Indigo reverse lap single fin + “drifta” style out-riggers.

6’6” Outer Limits Spiral-V Legacy Pintail

Announcing the first of 25 Outer Limits Spiral V Single fins.

There will be only 25 limited edition boards (including this one), designed with Martin to each customers dimensions, shaped by me, signed and numbered. All boards will be £650 including tint, spray, resin pinline, gloss and polish. All will use the genuine Outer Limits decals left over from Martin's original print run in the 70s.

       

Outer Limits 2012 spray…

Classic blue burst…

Sky tint on Outer Limits spiral-V Legacy

Well the cat is poking his head out of the bag… this is the first Outer Limits board in over 30 years. There wont be many, just 25 and all custom orders. Drop me an email if you are interested.

Full story on this collaboration coming soon.

       

Jason (glassing) used to work with Martin back when he was a young’un learning the ropes,so was stoked to be working on an Outer Limits. Jase threw up one dilemma though – fixed fin or box? Heart says fixed, head says box!

#1 Legacy 6’6”

Had fun shaping this one! Flat decks are so  much more challenging to shape as they reveal every imperfection in the rail curve… and this one was more challenging as it came out of the machine a bit squiffy, with some skin on the bottom too… happy with the end result but until it gets the ok from my collaborator, it’s not getting sprayed or glassed!

      

Photos: Adam (ta)

1 in 10

Based on the SAS campaign artwork to highlight the troubles at Broadbench… (nuff respect to the original artist). Please sign up to this campaign if you believe that we should all have access to our ocean rather than being excluded so someone can use it as a firing range.

Right now this board is awaiting its bonzer LokBox set to allow it to show its full potential… more details about the board another time. T        

Spiral V

I was really excited when I saw this as Martin Geary made me a 6’6”  spiral V round pintail back in 1979.

Here is an Outer Limits  7’0” Spiral V single wing pin from “Gearbox” in great condition with a textured deck, for renovation…

    

Post modernism from the mainstream…

For those who only accept shapes from the mainstream – proof that single fins AREN’T old school by Rusty…

They’ll make you a better surfer too…

Justbonzers Facebook

Justbonzers now on Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/justbonzers - plenty of pics in the galleries of resin tints and boards, and I'll try to add to this regularly. Had fun at the hand specialist today… prognosis on the finger not great; looking like i wont be sanding, foiling and other fun stuff for a while longer! Killing time and frustration with another run of t-shirts and hoodies for anyone who is interested. Orders via email.

This pic is of my McCoy nugget, somewhere in the Caribbean in 2004.

Drifter not bonzer

One of my favourite board designs in the single fin/twin fin/thruster transition years. I always wanted to try one, but never did… maybe one day. Hot Buttered Drifter by Terry Fitzgerald.

Freeride at the Old Smithy…

Last night saw the screening of the rare and influential surf movie, Freeride, at The Old Smithy in Welcombe.

I did a little intro before the screening and for those who didn’t make it, I hope this gives a personal insight into a movie that spawned The Freeride Generation and changed the course of many peoples lives.

“It was the summer of 1978, I was 12, queuing with my brother Hugh and around 100 long haired pot smoking scruffs outside the Atlantic Hotel in New Polzeath... I was stood there next to my brother and the local lifeguard, Gavin Bassett who had been persuading my mother i was safe to surf had said i had to come along... so there I was, stood in line with a hoard of rowdy hooting surfers... I was already sold.

There was a sense of belonging at that event that changed my life; it’s why I’m here... kind of why we are all here.

The movie was the efforts of by Bill Delaney and water-cameraman Dan Merkel. Their slow motion water shots and on board cameras set new standards in sports photography that wouldn’t really be exceeded until much later with the likes of Riding Giants.

Sadly this movie is now rarely seen, issues over rights have confined it to all but a few collectors fortunate enough to own one of the rare original 16mm films that were played in the cinemas and halls around the world in the late 70s. This copy comes from someone that has one of these. You didn’t see this movie here tonight, and you may never see this movie again.

It's primarily a chronicle of Pipeline/Off the Wall during the Hawaiian winter of 1975 -'76, with some Australian and Indonesian segments thrown in for good measure. Its stars are Mark Richards, Wayne Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson, who were banging down the door of the Hawaiian old guard. This movie was, perhaps unfairly, most remembered for Shaun Tomson’s tube riding, which whilst incredible even by today’s standards overshadowed the performances of the more stylish and aggressive attacks of Rabbit and the most stylish and radical surfer of the era, Mark Richards who went on to win 6 World Championships.

For me the most incredible thing is that they are riding these awe inspiring North Shore waves on boards a bit like the one Richie has slung up over the bar round the corner, single fins with down rails, low rockers and thick beak noses. The boards seem to skip over every piece of chop, and chatter as they are nursed off the bottom and under the lip... with the exception of Mark Richards who somehow manages to look relaxed whatever the size, even at Waimea.

Later in 1994, I had the pleasure of meeting Shaun Thompson in the lineup at Jeffrey’s Bay. He dropped in on me, faded his bottom turn sticking me deep into the pit with nowhere to go. That was a hero busted for me. I later discovered he had given lectures all over the world on his “surfers code”, handing out cards with the code on one side and his clothing brand, Insight, on the other. Interestingly the code DIDN’T include “tho shalt not drop in”, but then he is a Saffa (joke).

I also got to see Rabbit surf at his home break in Oz when I was 18. (Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew got the nickname “rabbit” because as a kid he was this incredibly quick young footballer missing his 2 front teeth!) He was 12 years as a pro surfer on the tour, and with 1 world championship, but I’ll always remember him for his hands-behind-his-back barrels at Burleigh Heads... and he didn’t drop in on me!

I never did get to meet or surf with Mark Richards despite trips to Newcastle. He was known as “the Wounded Gul” for his low centre of gravity, knock-knees, arms outstretched style that seemed to be able to absorb the largest of chops without fluster and enabled him to surf the largest of waves with the most relaxed yet radical style. I can’t see him dropping in either though.

Anyways enjoy the movie... You didn’t see this movie here tonight, and you may never see this movie again...”

The Riddler – REVO5 bonzer

This board was inspired by some of the most significant influences on my shaping… Malcolm Campbell’s bonzers of course, a little bit of McCoy’s loaded dome Nuggets and a healthy dose of Cheyne Horan’s boards and the spitfire theories from Revolution...

6’2” x 20 1/2” x 2 7/8” – rolled deck with pinched rails. Rolled V boat-nose into vortex channel inside rolled V, exiting into a panel V through the tail. REVO bonzer spitfire sides and  a McCoy gullwing centre fin. Can be ridden as a Single fin or as a REVO5.

The REVO sides are using the fluid dynamic theories more popular in sailing after the Ben Lexcan keel led the Australia II to the America’s Cup victory in 1980. One part of the theories is that a vertical keel has less resistance than a sloped one due to its reduced initial contact area. Anyways thought it was time to apply some of this to a board and inspired by something similar on a Revolution Board and with encouragement from Noel Whitman of Revolution the Riddler was born. Watch out for tweaks in the near future after its first wetting.

Hope you enjoy.