tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87210902198883300672024-03-14T06:51:55.190-07:00Seasonal Surfcraft<a href="http://www.seasonalsurfcraft.co.uk">The latest from Seasonal Surfcraft</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-72590639014261555052015-09-06T12:37:00.000-07:002015-09-06T12:37:41.041-07:00Latest alaia styled paipo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First finished this board back in January (<a href="http://seasonalsurfcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/some-photos-of-my-latest-paulownia-wood.html" target="_blank">Alaia style paipo mk 1</a>) but I realised I went a bit too aggressive with the concave and split the board. Didn't fancy scrapping the board because it looked so much fun so I decided to fibreglass it so now it's back and super strength. Went for a yacht varnish finish this time to give it a shiny finish without too much sanding.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0Pennard, Swansea, Swansea SA3, UK51.5758023 -4.088289900000063426.0537678 -45.396883900000063 77.0978368 37.220304099999936tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-61886109536342136492015-08-09T11:45:00.004-07:002015-08-12T12:17:26.865-07:00Latest little summer board<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Following the sad mistake that was <a href="http://seasonalsurfcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014_07_01_archive.html" target="_blank">Il Joneso Superleggera</a> (later to be re-named Bambi's mother), this summer I decided to make a sequel. The premise was the same, to create a high volume short board that can catch waves easily but still turn well (the main disadvantage of the Sim). Asides from being a traditional polyurethane blank, fibre glassed with epoxy resin, the other main difference of this board is the asymmetric tail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My thinking is that asymmetrical boards are the logical solution because feet and legs aren't symmetrical. You can put a lot more body movement into your forehand turn so the forehand rail is slightly longer with a tail similar to that of a performance fish to act as more of a pivot for sharper turns. The backhand rail is shorter and more akin to a rounded nugget to enable an easier with fins placed higher and closer to the centre of the board to allow a smoother, less forced backhand turn while trying to remove the need to move your back foot around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Volume is kept high throughout and the nose quite wide to enable the board to stay short while still being easy to paddle (a little volume was taken out of the nose to make duck diving a bit easier. A large single concave through the centre of the board flattens the rocker to enable the board to carry a lot of speed while a slightly exaggerated nose and tail rocker has been added to allow steeper take-offs and and the increased rocker through the rails should enable the board to be more manoeuvrable. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5'5" x 19 3/4" x 2 1/2"</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-58626535302387524832015-08-04T13:32:00.000-07:002015-08-23T12:52:47.961-07:00Little board for big waves<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I've started using the handplanes more I've realised size of my paipos isn't as important as I first thought in terms of wave catching and performance so this little ride is significantly shorter than my previous paipos at just 82cm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last paipos took steep drops confidently but the large big rocker has meant it required a bit of grunt to keep the speed up. This board on the other hand has a perfectly flat rocker up to the nose where I've then added a healthy curve. The theory is that it should take steep drops well while also carrying speed well for when the wave slows down. But I suppose there's only one way to find out if it works.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-83971757452112081662015-07-12T06:01:00.001-07:002015-07-12T06:01:09.022-07:00Group Photo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Starting to run out of space to store all the surfboards so thought it might be a good opportunity to get them all together for a group photo so I can finally see how many I've actually got. So here it is, 19 surfboards, 13 bodyboards/paipos and 6 handplanes. Problem is Wales doesn't get enough decent waves to use them all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you've seen much of Ryan Burch's <a href="https://vimeo.com/74544527" target="_blank">Rabbit Foot surfboard</a> you'd be forgiven for thinking this is a blatant copy, but you'd be wrong, the Rabbits Foot has got somewhat of an asymmetric crescent tail whereas this one has a crescent tail leading into a round tail. And it's got a different colour scheme. So completely different.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway unfair comparisons aside, this board is the result of untold hours; starting life as two blocks of XPS loft insulation board, glued together, shaped and given a fiddly parabolic balsa rail for added strength. This was followed by a few layers of fibreglass, some resin tints and a shoulder damaging amount of sanding and polishing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Intended as a replacement for my <a href="http://seasonalsurfcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/bit-of-fun-for-summer-like.html" target="_blank">Number 7</a> board, I'm hoping the fancy concave and channel will actually help offer a bit more control rather than just being a fibreglass nuisance. </span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-74173823017038257312015-04-28T14:12:00.004-07:002015-04-30T23:25:36.007-07:00Revamping my old skateboard deck<div dir="ltr">
<span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ1Vlf8r7Mbw4OzcnS4OFlsskEAbS9-RXW49b4ab2yCqd-Xncq5EZa29ZobIpC2OWQUUvbIHJR3jVFKE76kJ_7wAfeuSoIorhdjdPHL9dOIUVFmGjiBKETVgGNhzd10qI-0-zp-cUPFz6Z/s640/pic20150315151900.jpg" height="640" width="640" /></span><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Watched this video from <a href="http://www.monsterchildren.com/14457/acid-drop-2/" target="_blank">Monster Children</a> recently and decided my old Blueprint deck would do with a revamp. After digging it out of the back of the garage and a bit of work with a jigsaw and a powersander, it's got a new lease of life, even if the artist isn't the greatest!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm sure everybody is familiar with Ryan Lovelace's Rabbits Foot, or at least it's worth looking up on t'Interweb because it looks pretty wild and as such it was inevitable that I'd have to make my own version at some point. So this is the current state of it so far. You may have noticed that I've swapped the crescent tail for a half crescent / half round tail asymmetric effort that I'd sketched out for the next version of my Bottom Feeder attempt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Currently it is awaiting some warmer weather and longer days before attempting to fibreglass her, I learnt that lesson the hard way, but I am liking the curves on her. Can't promise I'll be able to get any waves but she will turn some heads!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well weather has gotten damned cold and the first 50 year storm of the season is on the way so now is a good time to knock together a little video of some of my Dreamboat testing from the summer. The more I've used this board the more I've been impressed with it, now she's got some nice winter Langland point waves to look forward to so every cloud has a silver lining I suppose.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-50411729933111623952014-11-15T12:35:00.001-08:002015-01-19T23:47:41.337-08:00Instagram meet Blogger<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just figured out how to link my Instagram account to my Blogger account so you can now see my latest snaps in that handy little box on the right. Technology just keeps finding new ways to astound me. So to celebrate here's a selection of some of my pictures so far. Follow me on <a href="http://instagram.com/rugerdier" target="_blank">@rugerdier</a> there was a reason behind the choice of name at one time. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well the short answer is that it would be debatable as to whether you could call it a handplane. In practical terms though it was a question I thought could be best answered by doubling the size of my handplane. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Taking the template of my latest handplane design and doubling the proportions in length, width and thickness I came up with this design. Constructed using the Roy Stewart method I utilised in my <a href="http://seasonalsurfcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/the-coffee-table-mini-sim.html" target="_blank">Coffee Table Sim</a> I learnt from the mistake of last time by filling the hollow chambers with XPS foam, thereby keeping it light but also protecting against the leak issue that did for the coffee table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Completed this board a few months ago but only recently got around to test driving it and have to say I was more than a little impressed. As opposed to the handplane which allows you lift your upper body out of the water on waves, this little rocket has actual drive, helping you into waves as well as pulling you along when you catch one. Even without flippers I've been able to catch waves, find a line and get pulled all the way into the beach. Seriously blown away and already started work on the sequel, reckon I could always find a spot in the van to keep this little sucker handy.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-86134707078355435152014-10-11T08:58:00.002-07:002014-10-11T08:58:26.722-07:00Welcome back with a pair of handplanes<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Okay, I'm well aware I've been dreadful at keeping this blog up to date of late but there is a lot of work to catch up on so I'll start with this pair of handplanes, complete with rather dashing waxed bags made from an equally dashing shirt of mine that I inexplicably bought far too big for myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This time I've re-designed my hand strap from the rather low-tech strip of webbing through to the cutting edge implementation of a bicycle inner tube and old wetsuit combo. A marked improvement I think.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-33850359780621544172014-07-31T14:53:00.001-07:002014-07-31T14:53:53.447-07:00Alas Poor Il Joneso Superleggera<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It could be fair to say that my first crack at an EPS board has been pretty much a disaster. The intention was to create a ridiculously light summer board based on the Lost Bottom Feeder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The blank was cut from a huge block of Wickes EPS foam using a hot wire cutter that was far too small. The end result was a slightly wonky surfboard that I couldn't straighten out for fear of removing too much foam. Coated the finished shape with some polyfiller to try and seal it but wary of adding too much weight I probably didn't add enough resulting in the epoxy glass coat sucking in a lot of resin leaving a lot of pin holes. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did I mention that I nearly set the resin on fire as it started overheating in the tub? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Think I added to much colour to the resin as the final surfboard felt as durable as a sponge. I have absolutely no idea how but I somehow managed to fit the fin plugs with the front two fins pointing towards the nose and the back two pointing away from the nose, I nearly cried. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nonetheless I took her out in the water minus the back fins. First couple of waves were fun, she took off easily enough, quite manoeuvrable thanks to the immense cant on the fins, albeit very loose due to the lack of back fins. Of more concern however was the increasing weight it seemed to develop, this was explained when I got out of the sea and saw water pouring out of about a dozen tiny holes on the base of the board. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I suppose on the plus side it was a miracle she even got into the water and if nothing else I now have a new winter project lined up, Il Joneso Superleggera XT, the EPS/balsa edition, she's going to rock hard.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-8399924488392096322014-06-29T13:15:00.001-07:002014-06-29T13:26:05.817-07:00Fins are too expensive<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How do you justify £80 for a set of surfboard fins? FCS and Future seem to manage it but my conscience simply won't let me part with that kind of money. So instead then I've decided to whittle out my own from some wood and fibreglassing them through the wonder of Solarez sun curing resin. This'll be the first time I've tried to make some with FCS plugs so interesting to see how these turn out. Incidentally the pink ones are my interpretation of the Lost Controller fins and the brown and green ones are sneaky little bodyboard fins.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So after a couple of weeks of struggle, numerous banged walls/doors and a lot of resin mess I've finally finished the biggest board I've built yet, and bar a few colour changes (would have liked a bit of yellow on the tail also) I have to say I'm quite pleased with the outcome. Now I just need to get it down the beach and start competing for waves with the paddle boarders, bring it on.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-1395895396575447072014-06-01T09:11:00.000-07:002014-06-01T09:11:59.799-07:00Big Board Small Shed<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-12924454035264802512014-05-26T02:24:00.000-07:002014-05-26T02:24:29.352-07:00Jonesys longest wave and the start of the longboard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Took a trip to Morocco in March, neatly timed to coincide with possibly the only flat spell in an epic winter. Fortunately on the Thursday I was there the swell picked up enough to warrant giving Immsouane point a look. After a decidedly dodgy descent into the town, engine breaking to compensate for burnt out breaks, we were confronted with 2 foot waves and a healthy crowd of longboarders. Figuring the <a href="http://seasonalsurfcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/jubilee-board-day-4.html" target="_blank">Jubilee Sim</a> would struggle to compete I decided to rent a longboard from a local shop, a Nat Young designed Bic (putting aside my usual disdain for Bic's). By the time I'd gotten in the water the swell had picked up to head height and the crowd had tripled in size. Nonetheless by sitting a little outside there were plenty of rides to collect of leg shaping length. Finally got to live out my ambition of a wave so long it's easier to come into the beach and walk back to the take-off point. This video is the longest of several minute long rides and pretty much inspired me to get home and build myself a longboard.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-34142674721856638492014-05-08T14:28:00.002-07:002014-05-08T14:28:35.253-07:00Making Some Space With Another Board For Sale<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well I've been a bit slack with the blogging for a while, that darned vicious cycle of not updating but determined to get back in the game and got a lot of updates to catch up on. Now that the days are getting longer and I can get more work done I've decided to make some space in the garage by getting rid of some of my doublers so for anybody interested in a paipo the little yellow balsa number is up on eBay this week! Riding on the back of my new longboard incidentally. </span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-56467569638580483252014-02-16T14:01:00.000-08:002014-02-16T14:01:00.601-08:00Another Cobra Update<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can tend to suffer somewhat from a loss of attention, new ideas can quickly steal my attention away in a strange new direction. This has been the case recently, though the idea is not quite ready to be shared here yet though. Meanwhile the Cobra's have steadily been making progress, albeit slowly thanks in part to the atrocious weather we've had recently.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-90059494320682088702014-02-03T12:14:00.001-08:002014-02-03T12:14:10.890-08:00Handplane handbags<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Something about the winter that makes building some handplanes far more appealing, it's probably the fact that it takes a lot less time than a surfboard so I don't have to stay out in the cold for so long. I can be a bit of a wimp.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This year, inspired by an article on <a href="http://www.korduroy.tv/2013/how-to-wax-canvas-with-tasha-chapman/" target="_blank">http://www.korduroy.tv/</a>, I decided to knock up some little waterproof handbags to carry them. This is the first attempt, made out of one of my old shirts; yes I take my fashion very seriously.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-76983052796942359292014-01-26T14:32:00.002-08:002014-01-26T14:32:46.483-08:00Short trip through the Italian and Swiss Alps in a Lotus Elise<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well only four months after my trip to the Alps in the Lotus I've finally pulled all my clips together. If anybody is looking for a trip away from the ocean I can highly recommend bombing around some mountain passes in a sports car!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Progress is slow due to me only working on this board during the weekend, but with my intended completion date being the end of March all is more or less to schedule. Can't really fibreglass until the weather warms up (learned this the hard way) so there is no rush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The frame has bow been glued together and reinforced with thin balsa strips (to keep the weight down). The strips comprising the base have also been glued together and steam bent to fit the frame. This board has a bit more rocker than my previous hollow boards so it has been a bit more work getting the strips to fit the shape of the frame.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-44327038691445721422013-12-09T14:29:00.001-08:002013-12-09T14:29:27.509-08:00The Beginning of Two Cobras<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The round tailed hollow single fin is a board that's been on my schedule for a while. I love the feel of a big turn on the nine foot single fin, just not the feeling of terror when my 12 stone wooden longboard takes to the air above me, so I've settled on a nice performance six foot version for my next hollow board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The preparation for this board began in the summer when the strips were cut, the board designed and ribs traced and cut out, but now that it's too cold and dark to get out into the shed it's time to begin construction of the Cobra in the comfort of my conservatory.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Incidentally, the name Cobra has come from the intended design of the board which will have two racing stripes down the top and bottom of the board in the style of the Shelby Cobra. The other Cobra referred to in the title is the model I picked up on sale in a model shop that was closing down. Seeing it looking lonely on the shelf it felt like too much of a premonition to not buy it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll just have to see which Cobra comes out the best at the end of winter.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-37879100204066352552013-12-01T14:12:00.001-08:002013-12-01T14:12:39.916-08:00Long time no post<br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well it's been a while since my last post but I haven't forgotten about it, two holidays, some great surf and too many things on the go put me into a spiral of not posting I've struggled to get out of but the motivation is here again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After a week of blasting around the Alps I took a trip to Colorado to visit the lovely Katie and incredibly just one month after returning home I've already finished sorting out the holiday snaps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13915800@N04/sets/72157636302794913/" target="_blank">Europe photos</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/13915800@N04/sets/72157637886133914/" target="_blank">Colorado photos</a></span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00866292913630953307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8721090219888330067.post-6814954823242343712013-10-06T11:22:00.000-07:002015-01-19T23:45:33.886-08:00Few More Paipo Snaps<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Couple more pictures of my new bodyboards before I cover them in wax and put them into active service.</span><br />
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