Sacred Craft Ventura

Sorry about no new posts. We have been getting ready for the Sacred Craft this weekend in Ventura. We will have Alaias, Bluegills, Hollow wood longboards, Handplanes, and blanks at our booth and you can take them for a test drive at C Street Saturday and Sunday morning 7:00am to 10;oo. We will be at the top of the point, one of the last parking lots. Come by.

Jacob Stuth, Noosa

If you enjoy riding alaias, you must say what up to Jacob Stuth. He was the first guy to grab one with the intention of stand up riding, and has been blowing minds ever since. He is amazing to watch surf and has had a major influence on the design of the boards. Jacob works with bees and grows food and flowers for a living. Looking at the rooster tail comming off the board, one would realize he is gooing really fast.

photo; Chris Stevens

Visiuals From the Noosa Festival

The Noosa Festival of surfing just wrapped up. The surf looked pretty amazing. Tom had all his boards out for everyone to ride. Alaias, toothpicks, tunas, even a bluegill all the way from Michigan. I am pretty sure that is Cameron with a 20' long toothpick by Bill Wallace. At the festival this year they had a 20 minute long finless expression session during the contest and undoubtfully the funnest time of the event. This is Isaac Blyth on one of Tom's alaias, I am not sure of the size or model, during the session. It is amazing how these boards can slide down a wave but then engage to do a gouging cutback and then back into a lala down the line again.

All photoes by: Chris Stevens

More about the Noosa event to come

Foggy Bluegill Day

This is a nice video, showing how the Bluegills, and alaias, utilize control slides are used as a manuever for pocket positioning. This sliding is called the Lala. This word lala is found in Polinesian language prior to the arrival of European conquestidors. We believe lalaing is going to become a standard move in surfing like a off the lip or cutback.

milling lumber for a batch of alaias

Today was spent chewing on some rough cut lumber for alaias. The Sacred Craft is comming up and want to bring a couple of the models.

I use as much of the shavings as possible in mulch and my friend grows mushrooms with it, but when alaia season comes this stuff piles up. If anyone has a use let me know.

The hard part is getting one side straight, so the other side can be trued up on the table saw. Good, sharp tools and it helps to see straight.

I cringe looking at the scraps, Thats gold!

Bluegill Beach

Here is some more Bluegill footage. Sorry about the editing. I am learning. Soon I will learn how to remove the background noise. This was last week on one of the nicest days, weatherwise, of the new year.

My new Bluegill

6'0'' 19.5 2 1/8 epoxy. Rails
palownia, sequoia. Bottom up
to the imagination.