Folk’s - here’s something cool I sadly didn’t make it to. But it’ll ya an idea of the “surf culture” is going strong out on the Pacific central coast area… Lowel -if you’re outhere, it looks like our Friend Steve Colleta of Natural Curves surfboards ! Cool pic. Well, it’s Santa Cruz/Monterey bay man! People surf out here and they’re shape n board! rooster just shaped a long board and sum fishes…Oh, I’m shaping and am out here to! Carl Olsen of Two Crow’s, and there’s more I’m sure…
Oh, and that Big Sur shaping party is out here to… Sept ?
Anyway, if anyone hears of any local events, updates of existing local events, contests etc., leave it here k.
Yes. ditto on Steve. He used to post on Sways once in awhile. Got to visit him at his shop when I bought a pickup load of leftover Clarks from him. A survivor. He’s got those blades dialed in.
Yeah, it’s real k when he talks board… It seems like you learn something new every time you talk to him… Lowel - you were telling me about his round pins, yeah I’ve seen a gentleman at the point just tear n it up on a single fin back in the early eighties… AMAZING BOARD’S!!
Steve met me up in SF once to deliver a new board, back in the single fin RP days, during a run of primo OB he wanted a taste of. We paddled out into a firing mid-beach session where Steve laid down some serious Master of Smooth deep pocket surfing. I was frothing over my new 6’8 by the third wave.
Steve’s boards were always da kine…his son Kalu has turned into quite the shaper as well…small wonder
The amount of surfboard shaping talent in SC has always been, remains, and will continue to be at the highest level. It’s part of the local surf culture, ingrained in each new generation of town groms, ride the best from the best.
Back in the 1800s, 3 Hawaiian brothers, Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Piʻikoi, Prince David Kawānanakoa, and Prince Edward Keliʻiahonui all heirs to the Hawaiian throne, surfed at Santa Cruz. They were all going to a private military school in San Mateo. It may have been the start of surfing there.
Gentlemen - ty for your story! While
Santa Cruz is on the map as a Classic “surf town”, sadly it’s kinda becoming an epicenter for the “well off” snobs - who mostly DON’T SURF. And the laow enforcement are harrasing beach campers, running them out of town, citing them with tickets, and harrasing the homeless! Not sure if it’s true, but I heard/ read on a website that possibly 43 people have died from the result of over poelicing…Santa cruz is losing it’s cool -Bigtime. It’s beautiful and all on the “outside” , but there’s a draconian system that’s in place to stifle anyone trying to live an affordable, and safe existence in a corrupt system. It’s sad but true.
BE FOREWARNED: DON’T CAMP (outside of a campground), and DON’T CAMP THERE OUTSIDE OF CAMPGROUNDS BCUZ THEY’LL CITE YOU, OR MAKE YOU LEAVE.
Just a heads up bcuz I see what’s goin on…it sucks! Note: if you do any free style camping -get out of Santa Cruz city limits, and you should be ok. No guarantees, so you might google it to be sure.
I’ll try I, but I’ll know better when time gets closer. But I’m out of wheels so if I go I’ll probably need a ride. Also, we have to bring our own food/ drink, right? There’s no stores outhere…
Note: if you do any free style camping -get out of Santa Cruz city limits, and you should be ok. No guarantees, so you might google it to be sure.