Jumbos BIG board

Talk about big boys and big boards, this is my mate Jumbo’s new board! I Have actually been making him boards since he rode 6’8” shortboards...nowadays he weighs around 150 kilos now (or 330+ pounds for you Americans). the board is 8’6”x 26”x 3 3/4” MONSTER MULLET. i scaled the shape perfectly using our APS3000 software. i then cut the blank from EPS (esky foam), i glued a bending ply stringer in and then cut the shape with the APS shaping machine we use everyday. we glassed it with 2x6 oz on the bottom and 2x6oz ,1x4 oz and a strip of 6oz carbon on the deck. all epoxy resins of course! the fins are foiled from ply and glassed on. i went for a quick surf with him on friday arvo when he picked it up and was stoked to see him catch a couple nice ones in tiny Tugun beach break waves. Jumbo managed a couple of good turns and a cutty too! He commented that he would have struggled to catch those waves on his 10” longboard let alone turn and cutback or throw the board at the lip! i will try and get a couple action shots in the next few weeks and give you an update... CUSTOMS FOR CUSTOMERS. thats what we do.....

Dale Quik

Dale Richards, our junior champion narrowly missed a finals berth in todays Brothers Nielsen junior pro at the Spit, on the Gold Coast. the surf was really crappy and it came down to luck and getting a wave that was ridable. having taken out some of the ratings leaders including Laurie Towner and Julian Wilson in earlier rounds, it was dissapointing to see the ocean not cooperating with Dale, but thats surfing competition isnt it. the photo above is from the recent Quiksilver pro at Snapper rocks. Dale won over an all star cast to win the trials. Then in the Main event he eventually lost out after being beaten by both Kelly Slater and Andy Irons....not many of us can match that performance. Dale showed true promise that he can surf with the best of them and im sure we are going to see many more finals with him in them over the next couple years!

Fishing in the Sea

Time to take the staff for a relaxing day of fishing...as a company we appreciate good staff and like them to enjoy some time together not working too. So we took six of our crew out to the 36 fathoms fishing hole! heres Dane the Sander with the biggest fish! of course as the boss and i was paying i caught the most fish... i took home a really nice Parrot fish and cooked it for dinner fresh. Teena caught a stomachache and Jamie was bummed over not getting anything worth keeping. we wished Blackie our legend Glasser could have joined us, but he is prone to seasickness!

Boost Airshow

Today i took the kids and missus up to see the BOOST airshow. Our Air specialist TEAM surfer DRU ADLER was an invitee! Dru was in the company of Ozzy Wright, Tim Curran, Kelly Slater, Josh Kerr and 7 other world renown air surfers. i didnt take any shots as two kids under 3 and crowds in the sand kinda make it hard to concentrate... it was a contest format based on entertaining the crowd, some of the guys had to do ten minute heats on goat boats and inflatable body boards etc. all in all it was entertaining to watch. my wife Tae scored an inflatable BOOST chair which kept the kids busy enough between throwing sand at Darcy(the shaper sitting next to us) and fighting over the chair to let us see a couple hours of entertaining surfing. the waves were less than ideal to do airs in but the guys were all profesionals so they did well anyway. we had to go home by lunch... but i turned on the news tonight... Dru had come second to Taj Burrows! Taj won $20,000. and Dru got a big LG plasma! pretty nice effort for a sunday’s work