well i dont know what happen to my old one but for those of you that remember it was a 30 lb yellow tail i caught in la jolla on my birthday a few years back
but ill put in a new one
this is from the best fishing trip i have had yet
i went on a 2 1/2 day trip and we got limits of yellow tail, a bunch of 30 - 50 lb blue fin tuna and the real kicker for the trip was a nice 70 lb opah that i caught before the sun came up on our last day
people really dont get opah around hear too much so i was vary stoked to say the least
Mine is a longboard i shaped to which i applied a tip from Mike Daniel, without the s. Unfortunately the board broke really quickly, since then i have not had another longboard. [3 yrs ago].
I still am trying to fix the only 2nd longboard i shaped that flew off the roof of my car, along with 2 other boards AND the 2 part roof rack. It came clean off [Eastwood accent] Quite a story back then, luckily nobody got harmed in the process.
… from Midnight Oil . That is Jim Moginie on guitar , in the foreground …
This was 1985 , 2JJJ’s tenth birthday party , on goat island , in sydney harbour…" red sails in the sunset "…
The previous avitar ??
…was …
my homemade 5’8 x 22 ‘bushfire fish’, with four homemade canard quad setup fins [ the fabric was supplied by the humourous englishman , ‘fatbaslardass’, in 2005. ]
My first venture into the business world (in high school) was a custom fishing rod “company”… Bear Creek Custom Rods, named after a small stream near my house. I even sold a few rods, probably because nobody knew I was a kid (the magic of the Internet!).
When I got into building boards, I wanted a name and a logo (I love making logos)…and decided to stick in the same vein… Sat down at the drawing board and Rio del Oso emerged.
the logo is burned on my first SUP paddle from when I was landlocked and paddling the lakes of upstate Ny.
Similar to Cycloxslug, I love logos and drawing, I always have a pencil, paper and eraser on me. And my home room is full of thousands of files with drawings, miniature to full size artwork, and the errata that comes with a lifetime of scribbling…
Anyway, about a year ago I read an article on company logos. Car companies, computer companies, what the logos represent and how subtleties bring a logo together.
The colour, shape, simplicity and composition of a logo all have marketing companies working overtime to create something unique like Alfa Romeos ‘serpent eating a man’ or Rustys ‘R dot’.
I chose a square shape because it satisfies the business requirement that it fits neatly on a card, flag or poster, is easily replicated and defines the limits of the logo.
i chose red because its an ‘action’ colour representing speed and excitement.
The white S is a simple contrasting colour to the intense red rather than trying to find another colour that might compete with the red. The S represents The S in Surffoils but also combines a basic wave shape and a rising ‘flow’ similar to how hydrofoils lift. Culturally left to right is how we read words and images.
I don’t have a business so it matters not, but it was a bit of fun to work on.
Mine is myself, wearing a then-new German fire department full-face mask. I’d gotten tired of sucking paint fumes for a job and went all-out with the top-dollar respirator.
It met an untimely demise after a prolonged period of use travelling with me between a number of board factories.
One stop saw me relieving the regular sprayer, who was also the laminator, and who shall remain unnamed…
The spray room was lined along one wall with a bunch of resin pails, filled with what I assumed was used thinners. Between tape-ups I hung the respirator on a horizontal wall rack. In passing as I carried boards out, I knocked the respirator off and into one of the pails of liquid.
I was’nt impressed, as the replacement fume canister would be as much as I had earned. I went downstairs to moan to the head shaper/proprietor…
He told me that the liquid was not thinners…
The factory toilet, he boasted, had never been scrubbed in his eight years as the tentant, and the laminator found this so repulsive that he prefered to piss in the old resin pails!
I donned some rubber gauntlets, carried five pails of piss down the stairs, and billed them for the time!!!
I did a bit of flying work in the Amazon, where I met my wife. We got married not too long after, and ended up travelling the Peruvian coast.
I love Peru, especially the north coast. lobitos is the best. We ate cheap epic seafood and beer every day, and i enjoyed a cheeky 4 hour surf every day.
Mine is nothing special, just a shot of the last board I made (over 4 years ago - yeesh!) mid-way through shaping.
The avatar I really want to know about is oneula’s newest. I’m sure there’s a story there, but every time he posts a comment, it kinda creeps me out. So c’mon Bernie: please fill me in.
Old guy and lifelong surfer, now so jacked up he rides prone full time, gets his lovely wife to try and get some shots from the beach and one comes out okay…
I think I was, definitely went to one concert in the harbour where the Oils played. Another good one was at the little grassy amphitheatre at Wanda where the Oils played in a thunderstorm, that took reall balls, everyone soaked to the skin, Peter and the band absolutely crazy
Niether board are mine and yeah the “splash” is interesting. The scoop on the air injection job, it is John Sevo’s daughters wind surfer she was out to set speed record. Boards are at Severson’s gallery on Maui. A friend who hangs and sells his stuff shot the pix cuz He know’s me’s still “playing with that stuff”! Aloha never say die…
