The 2003 Swaylock Awards

Ladies and Gentlemen… Now is the time to formally submit your nominations for the 2003 Swaylock Awards… The categories are undefined, but might include… Most Informative Topic… Most Annoying Topic… Most Informative Person… Most Creative Person… Best Board… Most Improved… Most Inspirational… Person With Whom You’d Liked To Share A Line-up With… …And any other category you’d like to create… A Solid Gold Skil 100 will be awarded to the winners…(Yeah, Right)…

…Let’s see if this works ? …You can post your votes by email ? Ask Paul or Mike first.Herb

What do you guys do in your spare time? Where’s Ambrose been?

most annoying subject would be “how do I make my own wax”

Most Inspirational: Ambrose Who I would like to share the line-up with: Kokua & Ambrose Most Informative: Jim “the Genius” Other Catagory / most missed: Ramon

Most Annoying: Fat Penguin

I really liked the thread with power tool accidents (“painfully funny award?”) – still have mental images of sanders motoring off into the sunset…

Most ingenious: Mr. Herb Spitzer (aka Dr. Pampers)

also nominate for “most annoying” - 1) posters who cant spell punktuate or use capital lettres (u no who u r). 2) hateful, negative, and insulting posters 3) people who bring politics into everything

Iam sick of the fish questions --it’s been covered

Most Informative Topic…The foiling, shaping, flexing fins Most Annoying Topics…Who makes the best fish or penguin, ANYTHING FROM C & C IN HOLLYWOOD Most Informative Persons…Dale, Herb, Plus One Shaper, Phillips, Mellor, Miller, KP, Pleskunas, Halcyon. Most Creative Persons…Herb, J.Phillips, Dale S, P.Jensen, Pleskunas Best Board… Michael Jones, Mellor’s big woody Most Improved…everyone Most Inspirational…Mike Paler, Herb, Ambrose, Dale, Coral Person With Whom You’d Liked To Share A Line-up With…All ready did! Everyone at Swaylocks 2003 + Easternpacific Watching your back…John Mellor, Dale Solomonson, Kirk Putnam. Smelliest Fin Bag…Matt Miller

most informative topic- Epoxy Resin, Tool info Most annoying- The Fat penguin guy, User Dave Most informative person- Herb, Greg Loeher Most inspirational- Bethany, and the young kids that want to start shaping Most creative- Mike, for making all of this happen Have a happy, healthy, and safe New Year

These people immediately come to mind in the following categories (the envelope please)… Most Informative Topic… Greg Loehr’s total step by step input on Epoxy which could practically fill a book all by itself. Most Annoying Topic… Overseas production (sorry for what I’ve contributed in that regard) Most Informative Person(s)… (3 way tie) Greg Loehr, Dale Solomonson, Herb Spitzer Most Creative Person… Paul (who needs Clark?) Jensen Best board(s)… (2 way tie) Surfore’s Jim Phillips chambered LIGHT weight balsa. And I DO mean LIGHT!!! The BEAUTIFUL Yater Abalone inlay balsa gun at Beach House in S.B. And I DO mean BEAUTIFUL!!! Most Improved… Michael Jones and the Home Depot materials gang. I didn’t really appreciate what he was up to until I read the whole story and saw what he came up with. Most Inspirational… Ambrose Curry - Mr positive vibrations. Keep up the STOKE! Person With Whom You’d Like To Share A Line-up With… Anybody on this board - (You go! No, you go!) Funniest Posts… Slim Rail Pickins (whoever he is.) Most deserving of the wave of the day… Mike Paler for making this place possible. (Thanks Mike!) Happy New Year!

Most informative topic: Anything by Jim Philips Most Annoying Topic: Tie: How to make you own wax/any made in China thread Best Website outside of Swaylocks: tylersurfboards.com Most Informative Person: Herb Best Board: Hunt Customs Imperial Most Improved: Hunt Customs ~ nice work bro! Most Inspirational: Bethany Hamilton -still surfing after all that, we have no excuses friends! All the best in 2004 folks!

I love this kinda shit! Most Informative Topic…Any of the in depth, heated discussions Most Annoying Topic…Fat Penguin Most Informative Person…Jim Phillips, Greg Loehr, Herb, here the list goes on and on Most Creative Person…Jim Phillips - visit his bay you’ll know Best Board… I’ll tell you shortly Most Improved…G Unit (Greg Hunt) Most Patience - Barry Jones for the last 15 years Most Inspirational… I have to steal from Phil D - Bethany, and the young kids that want to start shaping Laugh Out Loud Thread…The power tools thread (RB I’m still laughing at the image in my head) Person With Whom You’d Liked To Share A Line-up With… Swaylockians - more good people (don’t need any more assholes)

Most Informative Topic… Everything I needed help on Most Informative Person… Greg Loher, Havard Most annoying topic… Everything I asked advice on Most Creative Person… Herb Spitzer Best Board… Rooks 7’10" x 21.5" x 2.5" Paul Gross 7’2, any retro singlefin Most Improved… Me Most Patient… Mike for putting up with all of us Person With Whom You’d Liked To Share A Line-up With… those who help me here http://www.surfingireland.net

Ms. SUV Mom, have you not heard of the Mad Cow scare, you will be feeding that hungry mob in the back seats alot of Fish Filets from MickD’s,that will dovetail nicely with the NEMO DVD you having playing, but I do agree with you the Fish thing is overdone, so is the Toby Pavel stuff, pray that Paul Gross returns in 2004, also a bit of 70’s dirt for you RetroGlamWagoners, PG and Toby shared a workshop in Ocean Beach, South SD, so my dear stay safe in Vegas and enjoy the New Years Eve Celine Dion show. Peace and Love in 2004 my fellow cyberSurfgeeks.

yeah i know he also shared the same place with R.Brewerand a host of other surf elite madmen.I just can’t understand why the fish is all of a sudden the NEW COOL thing.toby has been quietly making his modern rendention of the lis fish for over 20 yrs when it was not cool.I hope he gets all the credit he deserves because he has taken been working hard with the fish nonstop for 20 plus years

Ukuele Bob We are praying that Paul Gross and his wife do NOT return to this petty little forum in 2004! Paul is bigger than Swaylocks. Hes never received enough recognition from anyone! Do you really want Paul to be sitting in front of a keyboard while suffering from chronic dysentary? Its people like YOU who keep bringing up his past and smearing it all over the internet. Who made YOU perfect??? We didnt think so!!!

you are right iam a twit.I take all this way too serious and i will go away now - sorry my penis is just so small I can’t help my ranting at my key board.I must go and take my medication now.Bye love always,C&C in Hollywood