Thursday, July 29, 2010

Aloha,

A couple of soon to happen items:

From Lauren Machen: At the La Paloma friday July 30: High Five movie premiere from Transworld Surf: 

From Dewey Weber Biography: Surfing Walk of Fame to Honor Dewey Weber, Sonny Garcia, Candy Calhoun and more . . .
Honor coincides with 50th anniversary of the founding of Dewey Weber Surfboards. 
Shea Weber, president, to represent the family. Please come help us celebrate Dewey's induction in the Huntington Beach Surfing Walk of Fame.  The celebration will be next Thursday, August 5th at 10:00 a.m. on PCH and Main St. (in front of Jack's Surf Shop) in Huntington Beach.

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/ Many items now on Ebay including lots of surf magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Aloha,

From Craig Hibbard: this weekend: http://www.surfmonkeyrace.com/

Also From Craig: Surf Film Fest:  http://beachshortsfilmfest.com/

From Geoff Cater:

Gary Lynch recently posted:
Re: the above article: "thanks to the shortboard, an Australian innovation"..........Hawaiian shortboards were around a long time ago, in the 1800's and some people (especially lots of kids) have used them since. Even the 1940 LA Ladder Co. brochure had a Blake short board called a breaker board. Bob Simmons built some. Quigg built some. And that guy up in Santa Cruz built them in the 1960's. And I'm sure many others built them as well. A small issue but never the less, inaccurate.

While “innovation” maybe too strong, there is a case that the Australian move to shorter boards in 1967 initiated the acceptance of smaller boards for the surfing industry at large.
( And that guy up in Santa Cruz built them in the 1960's – I take it this was one Jim Foley, who apparently had a photograph published in second edition of Surfer magazine – can anyone confirm this?)

Following the release Bob McTavish's Stoked! (2009) and the film Going Vertical in early 2010, I have spent the last six months reviewing my knowledge of the so-called “Shortboard Revolution”.
This week I have uploaded a number of source documents 1967-1968 and an associated draft paper, A period of transition: 1967-1968  "the shortboard revolution" (currently up to the end of 1967).
The paper, with links to the relevant source documents, is at:
http://www.surfresearch.com.au/1967_VeeBottom.html

Thesis
In the second half of 1967, intense competition between a group of elite surfers, shapers and manufacturers in Sydney, Australia, saw the beginnings of a progressive reduction in surfboard volume, commonly designated as the Shortboard Revolution.
This experimentation initiated further volume reduction into the early 1970s, profoundly changing surfing performance and board design worldwide.
As surfboard dimensions were progressively reduced, these smaller boards increased the speed at which maneuvers were completed and enabled surfers to ride deeper and longer in the critical part of the wave.

In the upload were also several additions to the source documents menu:

W. H. Skinner : Canoe Surfing in New Zealand, 1884.
http://www.surfresearch.com.au /1923_Skinner_NZ_Canoe_Surfing.html

Hi Sibley : Surf Sleds and Boards, 1928.
http://www.surfresearch.com.au /1928_Sibley_PopSc_June_p79.html

W.G. Marshall : The Cronulla SLSC Story, Part 2.
Includes a report on Duke Kahanamoku's visit to Cronulla Beach in 1915.
http://www.surfresearch.com.au /1968_Marshall_CronullaSLSC_Pt2.html
(Note for Sandy Hall- finally found the original publication after about 10 years of searching)

An esoteric entry, for those with a “big picture” perspective-
Alice Roberts : The Incredible Human Journey, 2009.
http://www.surfresearch.com.au /2009_Roberts_Human_Journey.html

Alice Roberts' book, companion to a five part BBC documentary, reviews and accesses the latest available archaeological and genetic evidence of spread of human beings across the planet.
It critically implies that a large portion of human colonization was initially accomplished by coastal movement, and subsequently along river systems.
Although the book does not directly deal with the exploration of the Pacific by the peoples of Polynesia, it clearly demonstrates that man's relationship with the marine environment dates back to the earliest transition out of Africa, some 125,000 years ago.
This was undoubtedly associated with the development of various types of watercraft.

Geoff Cater
geoff@surfresearch.com.au

From the Surf Gallery: IDIOSYNCRASIES an exploration of uniQue minds in surfing
a new film by Patrick Trefz Starring Richard Kenvin, Andrew Kidman, Lance Ebert, Christian Beamish, Tom, Leeann, Frank and Pat Curren, Bill and Josh Mulcoy.

LAGUNA BEACH PREMIERE: Thursday, July 29, 2010
South Coast Cinema - Laguna Beach - 7 p.m. showtime

http://www.patricktrefz.com/idiosyncrasiesthefilm/trailer.html

ART EXHIBITION: Thursday, July 29, 2010, 8-10 p.m.
The Surf Gallery, 911 S. Coast  Hwy. Laguna Beach, CA 92651 @ The Surf Gallery following the film (8-10 p.m.).

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including lots of surf magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Monday, July 26, 2010

Aloha,

From Bob Thursby: Gerry Lopez article in the Sarasota Herald Tribune: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100721/ARTICLE/7211040/2107/BUSINESS?tc=ar

From Sam Ballam: A non-surfing colleague shared with me that he is reading an interesting, new book entitled Kook.  It is a true tale about a 45-year-old who get obsessed with surfing. It sounds worthwhile and I was just surprised that I hadn't heard about it previously. http://www.peterheller.net/kook.html

Also from Sam: Today's Wall St. Journal has a review of a book entitled The Wave Watcher's Companion by Gavin Pretor-Pinney.  It covers everything from ocean waves to brain waves to sound waves.

Found a cover of a UK version as well:

Also from Sam: Posted Jan 29: California Goes Surfing - super 8.  About Jamie Budge's film The Living Curl:   http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/29/2805208.htm

From Nathan Howe: PUKA PUKA PRESENTS FAR ART, a group exhibition featuring works by eleven artists who led the counter culture of the sixties and seventies on Maui. Artists in the exhibition include William Ballentine III, Richard Fields, Rick Griffin, Jim Loomis, Tom Mitchell, Neal Norris, John Schofill, John Severson, Louise Severson, Todd Swan and Joana Varawa. On Friday, July 30 2010, from 6 - 9 PM. info@pukapuka.tv www.pukapuka.tv   PUKA PUKA  43 Hana Hwy  Paia  Maui

From Jeremy Oxenden: Pat Oxenden racing on St Ouen's beach before WW2 , in the back ground a few of the meany beach huts that used to line the bay. Surfing was not a lonely pursuit back then, as Roger Mansfield tries to claim.

From Joel Smith: Rus Calisch sent this. A bit long, but fun... (tarp surfing): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6-vb20srZI&feature=player_embedded

From Mike Salisbury: NY Times article: Artist and Surfer as Best Buddies: "Swell" exhibition: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/23/arts/design/23surfing.html?emc=eta1

“Swell” is at Metro Pictures, 519 West 24th Street, (212) 206-7100, through July 30; and at Friedrich Petzel Gallery, 537 West 22nd Street, (212) 680-9467, and Nyehaus, 358 West 20th Street, (212) 366-4493, through Aug. 6; all in Chelsea.

From Gary Lynch: Woman arrested in surf rage incident: http://www.khon2.com/mostpopular/story/Woman-arrested-in-surf-rage-incident-says-she-was/Ue7fINSvB0-QEe6DP7HfkQ.cspx

From Jeremy Oxenden: Skateboarding in Jersey 76ish: http://vimeo.com/13581817

From Tom Keck: His photo of modifications made on the Cardiff statue:

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/ Many items now on Ebay including lots of surf magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Aloha,
From Ben Marcus: For his Skateboard Book:  Who made the first commercial skateboard?
     Was it Skee Skate? Roller Derby? Someone else?
     write to Ben at  thebenmalibu@gmail.com
     "I am looking for personal experience, or an ad from the 1950s, or a patent." plus a couple pics he sent:

From Frank DaSilva: I'm in NJ for a couple of weeks and look at the news! - (Shark sightings close beaches in New Jersey) http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/seaside_park_beaches_temporari.html

From Jeremy Oxenden: Irish waves under threat : Spread the word about Crab Island and Doolin Point Crab pier design:  http://www.petitiononline.com/Doolin10/petition.html

From Gary Lynch: Santa Cruz police bust alleged meth dealers, including big-wave surfer Anthony Ruffo http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_15524627?source=most_viewed

From Gary Sahagen: Art Exhibit and reception featuring Don Bigelow.  Wednesday, July 21, 2010  6:00pm - 9:00pm  Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum  411 Olive Street  Huntington Beach, CA Please join us as part of the Huntington Beach Art Walk. http://www.hbdowntown.com/artwalk/artist-list-july2010.html http://www.surfingmuseum.org/events.html

From Sandy Hall (Duke biographer):  I wanted to add a few words of my own in an unsolicited plug:

The new book, Sweetness and Blood , by Michael Scott Moore, is much more interesting than the starchy review it garnered in The Economist . (But, being reviewed in the Economist is itself a pat-on-the-back). Moore, a Californian who works as a journalist in Berlin, explores the offbeat in surfing -- eg how does surfing fare in Communist countries and in wartime, in impoverished countries etc. It looks far beyond Hawaii and California, giving a different perspective. It's part travelog, part memoir, part social commentary. I was fascinated at the number of people he met who taught themselves how to surf, from a chance newspaper photograph of a surfer, or magazine article. There's much to like in this brave new take, on a sweet, zany, and sometimes bloody sport. I rank the book ***** 5 stars of 5!

From Joe T.:

Also: I recently made my first sale to someone in Moscow!

From Jeremy Oxenden: Sylt island Germany the Baltic sea . They must be tuff.

Also from Jeremy: Short piece on BBC radio 4 - talking to Steve Pezman of the Surfing Heritage Foundation/oral history committee: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8834000/8834225.stm

From Stuart Coleman: Conservation Groups (including Surfrider Foundation) Applaud National Ocean Policy: The Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, July 19, 2010, can be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/OPTF_FinalRecs.pdf

From Gary Lynch: Surfing's Dark Side on the North Shore: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/01/22/sports/othersports/1231545957469/surfing-s-dark-side-on-the-north-shore.html

Ran into art from Rick Sharpe: His surf art page: http://www.ricksharp.com/html/70sposterpg.htm

From Cary Weiss: I have acquired an amazing collection of trophies and Duke Invitational Tee shirts from 60's.  Rare early 60's Makaha trophies(aloha tower base in koa) won by Nancy Nelson in '62 and '63. Large beautiful trophy won by Tom Zahn for the '57 paddleboard race Catalina to Manhattan Beach,: another Zahn  trophy for the Santa Cruz paddleboard race in '61.  Corky Carroll 'Best all around' Duke US Surfing Championships 1966 and 1969 HB.   Mike Doyle '65 US Surfing Championship.  Plaque-USSA Perpetual Trophy '66 with all legends of 60's listed.  2 Surfer Poll awards for Joyce Hoffman and Mike Doyle.  A very rare red heavy cotton shirt given to contestants for the Duke Invitational in 67(?).  A Silver 1913 Mid-Pacific Carnival Trophy from Duke estate -presented to Duke Feb 22, 1913.4 Tee shirts from 67, 68 and 71 Duke Invitational.   And finally a rare original drawing for the PVSC (Palos Verdes Surf Club)1930's used as template for club invites and board logo-- Inquire by email or phone Cary 310-717-7993  tothebu@earthlink.net

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including lots of surf magazines/Surfing Action Around the World/Surfing World Annuals/Surfers Path: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Aloha,

From the Museum of British Surfing: Shaper Dick Pearce's obituary: Thousands of British surfers got their start on one of Dick's famous 'surf riders': http://www.museumofbritishsurfing.org.uk:80/2010/07/15/dick-pearce-an-unsung-hero-of-british-surfing-april-12-1929-july-10-2010/

From Roberto: His surf camp in Brazil: http://www.surfpipa.com  Home to dolphins and turtles, the village of Pipa is part of the district of Tibau do Sul, an Indian name meaning 'between two waters': the Guarairas Lagoon and the Atlantic Ocean.

From Matthew Rocheford: www.AllAboutSurfboards.com  has started an online guide to surfboard fins at www.finplug.com

From Frank DeSilva: He's designed some Kids' Size SUP paddles : fringnut@aol.com

From Susan Wickstrand-Roche: Art show at Green Flash in Cardiff starting July 17:

From Joel Smith: Surfing related Book Review in The Economist: http://www.economist.com/node/16537008?story_id=16537008&fsrc=nwl

From Gary Lynch: Re: the above article: "thanks to the shortboard, an Australian innovation"..........Hawaiian shortboards were around a long time ago, in the 1800's and some people (especially lots of kids) have used them since. Even the 1940 LA Ladder Co. brochure had a Blake short board called a breaker board. Bob Simmons built some. Quigg built some. And that guy up in Santa Cruz built them in the 1960's. And I'm sure many others built them as well. A small issue but never the less, inaccurate.

From Marcelo Louzada: Two Brazilian surfing books: the first one he believes is the first published in Brazil: "Surf - Sliding On The Waves":

The 2nd book cover he sent is "Fluir Magazine presents - The History of Surfing in Brazil - 50 Years of Adventure" which shows the beginning of Brazilian surfing on the cover:

"In 1938, Osmar Gonçalves, from the city of Santos/São Paulo aged 16, surfed
the first wave of Brazilian surfing history. Between December 1938 and
January 1939, Osmar and his friend Joao Roberto Suplicy Haffers "the Jua",
built the first Brazilian surfboard. The board was built from Popular
Mechanic Magazine. With technical support from the naval engineer Julius
Putz, Osmar and Jua were behind the required material. They bought the wood
indicated (cedar planks of four meters) and ran the project. Following the
tips friend Putz and guidelines of the magazine, produced a board of 3.60
meters and weighed 80 kg."

Also from Marcelo: Pictures from the VII edition of FestivAlma Surf at the Bienal pavilion in Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paulo, (July1, 2,3):

From Craig Hibbard: Sacred Craft is at the San Diego Convention Center August 14-15:  http://sacredcraftexpo.com/  The vintage Surfboard "Antique Roadshow" appraisals presented by Primo Beer will visit the Sail Pavilion in the San Diego Convention Center one day only , on Saturday August 14 from 10am-4pm as a part of the 2-day Sacred Consumer Surfboard Expo. Expert appraisers will be on hand for surfboards, surf 'paper', surf posters, surf magazines, surf art, surf books and surf memorabilia. (Yours Truly will be there!)

From Dick Saar: VJDay: Not really anything to do with surfing altho there are some beach scenes. But very cool pictures of Hawaii in 1945. http://vimeo.com/5645171

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/ Many items now on Ebay including lots of surf magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Aloha,

From Tom Laura: Fun Surf/Skate/Lowbrow group art show this Saturday:
"Transition" Saturday, July 10, 2010 6:00pm - 10:00pm HURLEY HQ   
1945 Placentia Ave. Costa Mesa, CA

From Julie Cox: The Hawaiian duo "Hapa" is playing the Grace Theater in Oceanside July 23rd!

From Jane Schmauss: Article on the Loren "Whitey" Harrioson exhibit at the Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens (I've seen it, it's very cool! at a lovely venue.)   http://www.sanclementetimes.com/view/full_story/8026756/article-A-Quintessential-Waterman

From Chris C, who stopped by to pick up a couple magazines. : His Daily Biscuit art page:   http://www.bluecanvas.com/dailybiscuit/ And a couple pics of the waterski he converted into a downhill skate:

From Yours Truly:

From Jeremy Oxenden: 8 juniors and some bigger people for the Cotentin Surf Club in Normandy at a surf contest in St. Ouens Bay Old Jersey:

From Don Fleming: A FEW PHOTOS FROM OUR SPRING TRIP DOWN THE COAST FROM NORCAL. INCLUDING; ME AND SON BURT AT SANO, PELICAN POINT LIGHT, PELICANS AT BIG SUR, BIRDS AND SMALL SURF AT REFUGIO, AND LOTS OF EMPTY BEACHES. WE EVEN STOPPED AT A RE OFFICE IN GUALALA (MENTIONED IN YOUR SURF BLURB) TO CHECK THE PRICE OF A HOME. EXTREME COLD WATER BY THE WAY.

From Allen Kukel: Remote controlled lifeguard: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/28/drone-preps-water-rescues/

Also from Allen: a copy of a book none of us had ever seen: a French Gidget!

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

July 05, 2010

Aloha,

From Gary Lynch: A plank slate for an oral surfing history  http://www.latimes.com:80/news/local/la-me-tobar-20100702,0,1751954.column

Also: Many have read about it, no one has seen it except Tom Blake and myself. While I was visiting Tom Blake, he kindly escorted me to the actual carving. Tom kept the location a secret for fear it would be vandalized. (Nature = God)

From Dave Deavenport: I was up in Seattle last week, and while walking around saw this great painting on the wall of a building. Pretty cool!

From Yours Truly: Another Emil Sigler turns 100 article: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/26/waterman-soaks-up-glory-at-100th-birthday-party/

From Jeremy Oxenden: A Day in the Life of Ben Skinner: http://video.mpora.com/watch/T8lKoelWy/ Also: A new book: Local Tribes by Surfing in Santa Cruz author T.H. Hickenbottom:

From Bobbie: Own This View: California Beach Front: http://www.piratesdrive.com/

From Gary Lynch: Erotic services for female tourists in Bali: titled: A Cloud Over Bali's Beautiful Beaches:  http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-indonesia-cowboys-20100702,0,1951289.story

From Bill Simon: SINGLEFINS, BOARDWALKS, AND STORY TALKS: AN EVENING OF NJ SURF HISTORY - July 23 6-10 pm New Jersey Surfing Museum 120 West Main St. Tuckerton, NJ.

From Gary Lynch: 'Surf Art':  http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-01/swell-exhibit-features-surf-art-by-california-artists/%5C/2/

From Steve Collins: Longboard Collector's Club Meet:  July 10, Saturday ------– BAJA CANTINA 311 West Washington Blvd., Marina Del Rey, Ca. 90292-5129
200 yards from the mouth of the Venice Pier. From dawn until 1:00 P.M. Pat Phinney (owner) & Christoff (manager) really know how to treat The Club right. $5.00 all you can eat breakfast for members. http://www.longboardcollectorclub.com/ From Mike Salisbury: Surfing in Gaza: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/07/01/world/1247468364268/gazas-summer-escape.html?emc=eta1

Also: surf articles in L.A. Times: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/big-surf-to-hit-southern-california-beaches-public-is-warned-about-dangers.html  (and similar from Gary Lynch http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/warning-dangerously-large-surf-coming-to-southern-california-beaches-on-july-4.html  )

And: This one about bums in O.B. (San Diego): http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beach-20100704,0,2949971.story

From Michael Kew: Shark attack in Pismo Beach: (4' shark) http://www.keyt.com/news/local/97718424.html

From Jeremy Oxenden: Andre on his new 9 foot hot dog SUP:

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Thursday, July 01, 2010

Aloha,

From Terry Rodgers: Emil Sigler turns 100 article: http://www.nctimes.com/mobile/article_ce672a81-ee4d-5746-ba4e-153cd92abd4d.html David Aguirre and Emil Sigler:

Re: Emil turning 100:

From Ken Haygood (Surfin' Since the 40's): Great of you to remember to honor this quintessential local waterman and no doubt oldest living surfer. Emil has been an inspiration to those of us who have been SD Lifeguards and long-time surfers. 

From Gary Lynch (Tom Blake biographer): In any event, Emil is the real deal. And I bet the oldest living surfer right now.

Arthur Verge (Freeth article author.): Awesome!!!  I do know that surfer Claude Horan (the one who gave Santa Cruz the term Steamer's Lane and the famous Univ. of Hawaii sculptor) is in his mid-90's as is Micki Moore (one of the great second unit directors - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Patton, etc.) is 94.  Both were surfing next to the Venice Pier on the morning of December 7th. Neither knew that the other was there until I shared with them given the results of their separate interviews.   Again - fantastic about Emil - can't think of anyone else who would match that.  Best Wishes - 

David H. Stern (co-author of Surfing California guide) Jerusalem: Does Emil Sigler still surf?  "Pop" Proctor lived to be 99.  I saw him still surfing in his late 80's, and I would guess he continued into his 90's.  As for me, I will be 75 in October but haven't surfed since 2005, when I went surfing in the Gaza Strip before the whole Israel community had to leave.  I will probably try to surf again this summer, despite having Parkinson's Disease.

From Bob McTavish: What a classic is Emil Sigler! A shot of him at 25 surfing, then there he is at 100! Amazing! Good stuff Joe… Bob McTavish Emil and Rumsey:

From Gary Lynch: Doc Ball skateboarding at age 82:

From Peter D'Ewart: Attached is a small pic of an oil painting by Kevin Short of Lorin Harrison's barn, titled "We Remember".

From Jeremy Oxenden: One of the Parks twins with Peter Clarke and Luis de Gruchy .

Also from Jeremy: Friday morning at La porte. Greg, Mike & Mark   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9QmTqd7fM8

From Joe Ditler: Mermaids are nothing new to Coronado surfers. Artist Richard Becker saw a photo of Joe surfing 'The Pit' one day and decided to paint it years later. Here is the result:

From California Surf Museum: California Surf Museum in partnership with the Shorebreak Hotel in Huntington Beach is hosting Shorebreak Surf Cinema .

All directors will be on hand and other special guests.   Tickets are just $5, food and drink are available.  Doors open at 7 pm with films starting from 7:30 to 8 pm. The Shorebreak Hotel is located at 500 Pacific Coast Hwy, Huntington  Beach, CA. http://www.surfmuseum.org/index.htm

Tues 7/6: The Westsiders by Josh Polmer

Tues 7/27 Cancer To Capricorn and Gum For My Boat by Russell Brownely

Tues 8/10: Fiberglass and Megapixels by Derek and Craig Hoffman

Tues 8/24: An Evening With Timmy Turner

From Michael Kew: Beach is left in the lurch as state vetoes sea wall http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jun/27/beach-is-left-in-the-lurch-as-state-vetoes-sea/

From David Pu'u: Hazardous Materials Basics: http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?p=3387

Also from David: A Wall Street Journal article: The Swell Season: about biz execs surfing: http://magazine.wsj.com/nomad/big-trip/the-swell-season/

From Joel Smith: Sean Penn back on surf turf with Doc Paskowitz bio-pic: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021274.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&ref=vertfilm&nid=2854
Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Aloha,

From David Pu'u: His blog piece on oil and the Gaviota Coast which had been spilled on in his youth: http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?p=3317

Stuart Coleman will host signing parties with local Surfrider Chapters at:
1. Thurs., June 24, 7-10pm: Surfrider Signing party at Fontana's Bar,105 Eldridge St. (Lower Eastside), NY 10002 (212-334-6740).
2. Sat., June 26, 4-6pm: Signing at Main Beach Surf & Sport, 27 Montauk Hwy, Wainscott, NY 11975 (631-537-2716).
3. Sun., June 27, 2-4pm: Surfrider Signing party at the Surf Lodge,183 Edemere St., Montauk, Long Island, NY 11954 (631-668-1562).
4. Fri., July 2, 8-10pm: Surfrider Signing party at Rita's Seaside Grill, 2 Center Street, Folly Beach, SC 29439 (843-588-2525).
Come down & meet the author! Support Surfrider & help protect our beaches.

From Jeremy Oxenden: Art work by CC' Aerosoleil from Normandy: http://aerosoleil.fr/deco_chambre_vague-2-2.php

From Jose V. Glez: Radical Surf #40: http://www.josevglez.blogspot.com/

From Sam Ballam: The NY Times book review section did a review of a new book entitled Sweetness and Blood – How Surfing Spread From Hawaii to the Rest of the World, With Some Unexpected Results by Michael Scott Moore. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/books/review/Martin-t.html

Also from Sam: NYTimes article on getting surf reports: "Before Loading up the Surfboard, Check the Phone":   http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/technology/personaltech/24smart.html?emc=eta1

From Michael Richard: Pete Noble stardog23@att.net has a special board for sale: San Onofre Surfboard 9-7 Redwood Pine, Balsa: Board originally owned by James Dowden brother of Al Dowden first president of San Onofre Surfing Club. Each brother had a board built on the beach in Corna Del Mar. This is Jame's Surfboard. In 1955 James moved to Sacramento and left board with his brother Al. Al's son knocked the entire nose off in 1957 and had it reshaped into a hobie Makaha shape, On display over the Bar at The Endless Summer Bar and Grill in Santa Barbara for your viewing. Documentation available, Documentation verified by the late Les Williams at a Hobie San Onofre Classic.
Asking price is $17, 500 US Dollars,  buyer pays packing & shipping

From Glenn Hening: His novel: Ka'unua: g.hening@rain.org

From Gary Lynch: Sea Change Radio talks with Mark Massara:   http://www.cchange.net/2010/06/22/go-to-the-beach-soon-coastal-surfer-advocate-mark-massara/

From Rayne Surfboards: 4th episode of 3 young guys on a skateboard trek thru the Andes: Episode 4: Mouth of the Andes:   http://www.youtube.com/user/RayneChannel

From Susan Wickstrand: Green Flash Art Shop show:

From Gary Lynch: The First Major Exhibit on Simmons: at Surfing Heritage Foundation: http://www.surfingheritage.org/

From John Elwell: re the Simmons event : I will be doing a comparison of surfboards from pre Simmons, Simmons, and post Simmons at 5 PM on this date. Tis is mainly for historians and surfboard shapers.
  A large contingent of people will be coming from SD, and we are
rounding up surviving Simmons' board riders. Should be quite a party
with a lot famous old surfers who knew Simmons.  Collectors will love
this one! We will have some new films rolling which are preview of the
new movie  in progress.

From Barry Haun: Surfing Heritage Foundation event this weekend: Whitey Harrison Festival at Casa Romantica: http://www.surfingheritage.org/

From Gary Lynch: Real-life Mermaid:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk:80/news/worldnews/article-1288657/Making-splash-Real-life-mermaid-swims-reef-sharks-using-10k-custom-tail.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including lots of surf magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Aloha,

From David Pu'u:  A shot of Velzy from 1991:

From Hugo Verlomme: I confirm that my book "Cowabunga! Surf Saga" was the very first book on surfing in France (the book is a collector, hard to find to day). I had to explain to the publisher what surfing was. (1976) Not many people knew about it then! Now it's overcrowded!

From Steve Collins: Steve Hammon and "The Holden Gang" have asked me to pass this on - Huntington Beach International Surfing Museum----"THE FOAM YEARS" Opening Day -- June 20 Fathers Day -- 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. Will be on display for months.

From Jim Kempton: The second of a series of complimentary event webisodes available in the lead up to stop number 4 on the 2010 ASP Men's World Tour, the Billabong Pro, J'Bay, is available now. 
Webisode 2 focuses on South Africa's hometown hero, the phenomenal Jordy Smith, who heads into his favourite event as the closest man to King Kelly Slater (USA) - the current world ranked #1. https://www.filesanywhere.com/fs/v.aspx?v=897262875f6373a56b68

From Peter Robinson: The Museum of British Surfing is stoked to launch its new branding and website, part of the development work funded by Leader 4 Torridge & North Devon.
The charity hopes its new identity will let the world's surf community know how proud we are of our surfing and heritage here in Great Britain.
The emphasis on the ‘wave' expresses one of the museum's core aims: to encourage surfers to consider the impact they have on the environment, the ocean and ultimately the waves they love to ride! http://www.museumofbritishsurfing.org.uk/

From Jeremy Oxenden: Old Scopitone music video of January Jones singing and beach blanket bingo sort of dancing with some surfing  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8fIQSiD1AY&feature=player_embedded Scopitone was short-lived type of jukebox featuring a 16 mm film component. There are several more with beach scenes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqMuoF69zAE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81oQR6-s6Vw&feature=related

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including lots of surf magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Aloha,

From Marshall Parks: Paddle out for Hadji: The date is set for the paddle out.  Friday, July 16 at 0900.  At Tourmaline Surf Park.  Parking will be difficult, try to arrive early.  Please RSVP Ron at rstjohn1@san.rr.com  if you plan to attend the paddle.
The reason for the delay is due to the backlog at Rosecrans. This date was chosen to accommodate out of state family members that will be attending the military ceremony, so that they may also attend the paddle out. 1935 Tourmaline: Emil Sigler, Don Pritchard, Dorian Paskowitz, and Bill "Hadji" Hein:

From Bob Feigel: The International Whaling Commission will hold its final vote on a proposal to legalize commercial whale hunting for the first time in a generation. More than 650,000 of us have signed the petition to protect whales -- but it's time to reach 1 million! At the whale summit in Morocco, an Avaaz team is setting up billboards, front-page newspaper ads, and a giant, constantly-updating petition counter -- all to ensure that delegates, from the moment they step off the plane until they cast their votes, will see from our explosive numbers that the world will not accept legal whale slaughter.

Let's soar past a million. Click to sign, and then forward: 

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/whales_last_push/97.php?cl_tta_sign=f3f42ff455fed15ba3fb02c2d3147601

From Sandy Hall: The Kahanamoku Ohana's Matriarch Jo-Anne Kahanamoku, Duke's niece, has died, aged 80. She was the daughter of Duke's brother, Samuel. Sam was an Olympic swimmer (1924) and all around waterman.
Jo-Anne was half Tahitian, half Hawaiian. She was an early member of the Waikiki Surf Club, and sailed on the Hokulea. The years before she turned 50 didn't count she told me once. At 50 she sailed on the Hokulea, and that began a metaphysical life for her.
The voyaging canoe will be involved in the scattering of ashes, along with a paddleout at Waikiki. She was a "warrior woman" and although she hated public speaking, she always spoke up when she felt it was needed; she was an acclaimed feather artist, and good, fun friend to hundreds, if not thousands thru'out Hawaii and the Pacific.
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/20100613_Master_artist_helped_preserve_Hawaiian_culture.html

From Jeremy Oxenden: Cool Harbour Chronicles clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOxYM9FrDQQ&feature=player_embedded

From Tom Keck: A couple Emil Sigler pics: Emil is 100 today, June 17.

With Jane Schmauss of the California Surf Museum:

From Philippe Zibin: re French surfing books: the first one was by Hugo Verlomme: Cowabunga. Surf Saga! in 1976:

To my kowledge it's the first french book on surfing...most of french surfing books are from the 80's and 90's....the only one I know before that, is "Hawaii Iles de Reve" (Hawaii dream Islands) by Jacques Chegaray from 1956...I have a signed copy...but it's not a full surfing book...only 6 pages about surfing (surf-riding in the text)...more a sort of travel journal from the author who discovers the islands in the early 50's.

Some other books are translated novels such as "The Phamtom Surfer" from Caroline Quine....translated in "le beau garcon du pacifique" (the beautiful boy from pacific) edited in France in 1975. Think I have a list of all the french surfing books I know....have also, a 1962 city brochure from Biarritz with a picture or two of surfing...a "photo cinema" magazine focus on surf photography from 1965....and other sport mags with articles on surfing...between boring bicycle "tour de France" articles...and of course "Paris Match" magazines from the 60's, with some cool pics of french surfing with a funny article on this "new sport"....the guy who wrote it was not, with no doubt, a surfer.

From Jim Winniman: Anybody know about this work? Was it published as a magazine cover/interior artwork maybe? The painting is gouache on board - signed Mac Rae Gillies 1930: winnimanj001@hawaii.rr.com

From Jeremy Oxenden: Couple pics:

The next one with a note: Gene Cooper says this about PIGS .........

"The plan shape on some of the earliest Velzy pigs from the mid-50's was pretty extreme and I find those the most interesting. 16" nose, 17+" tail, 8" tail block and a beautiful combination of curves. At first glance they look pretty simple but if you take a closer look every contour and design element is very thoughtful and exactly in the right place, never better. I'll just say that the design is "subtly complex" or "complex in it's simplicity" not unlike what was being created by the artists and architects of the mid-century. Velzy's design was groundbreaking, enduring, and those early examples were pure art. I'm glad we live in a time when many surfers embrace surfings roots and designs. Riding a proper pig, nice and dense, sans modern rocker and modern foiling is just pure fun. A clean solid feeing that defies description, I'm hooked….again."

From Jim Kempton: On Thursday, June 10, 2010 Billabong held its 4th annual Design For Humanity benefit ( www.designforhumanity.com ) on the legendary NY Street Backlot at Paramount Studios in Hollywood.  
100% of this year's ticket sales and proceeds from art show and product collaboration auction sales will be donated to Invisible Children ( www.invisiblechildren.com ), an organization raising awareness and funds for families affected by the long-standing war in Uganda, Africa.

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including Wahine, Surfer, Surfer's Journal and other magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Friday, June 11, 2010

Aloha,

From Julie Cox: California Surf Museum picture from the Gala - Women of the Waves:

Back L-R: Julie Cox, Izzy Tihanyi, Donna Matson, Frieda Zamba, Cher Pendarvis, Linda Benson, Keala Kennelly, Lisa Andersen, Kathy Kohner Zuckerman aka "Gidget", Maya Gabeira, Debbie Beacham. Front L-R: Indy Callaway, Cori Schumacher, Prue Jefferies, Jennifer Smith, Kassia Meador, Jeannette Schumacher-Prince, Eve Fletcher, Courtney Conlogue. From Peter Spacek: Book signing Sunday June 13 in Montauk:

From Stuart Coleman: 6th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL SURFING DAY EVENTS Surf For A Cause, Give Back and Win Prizes

Honolulu, HI (June 10, 2010) In celebration of the 6th Annual International Surfing Day on June 20th, the Surfrider Foundations Hawaii Chapters and Kona Brewing Co. are hosting a statewide Concert Tour with Hawaiis hot new band The Throwdowns at the following dates and clubs:

Fri., 6/18: The Mixx, 75-5626 Kuakini Hwy, Kona, BIG ISLAND (with special guests)
Sat., 6/19: The Fresh Cafe, 831 Queen St., Hon., OAHU (with the Deadbeats & Analogic)
Fri., 6/25: The Lava Lounge, 1387 Kuhio Highway, Kapa'a, KAUAI (with special guests)
Sat., 6/26: Mulligan's, 1387 Kuhio Hwy., Wailea, MAUI (w/ Moth & Sounds of Addiction)

Along with this benefit concert series, Surfrider is also partnering with Surfing Magazine and other local sponsors to put on Fathers Day (Sun., 6/20) Beach Cleanups with prizes, food and fun challenges across Hawaii.  The chapters will be having family-friendly cleanups at the following venues:

Oahu Chapter: Diamond Head entrance, Honolulu, 10:00am;
Kona Kai Ea Chapter: Kahaluu Beach, Alii Dr. Cleanup, Kona, 10:00am;
Kauai Chapter:  Nukoli Beach Park (outside of Lihue), 9:30am;
Maui Chapter:  Hoaloha Park, Kahalui, 9:00am.

From Jeremy Oxenden: Normandy Benjamin chatting to Gordon Blake and Ryan from Old Jersey:

Last of the tales from Gene Brown: What one hauled their board around in was a big part of the surfing culture.  Times were different in the 1960's. I had a '49 Ford woodie in ace shape that I paid $100 for.  Then there was a 1947 Mercury woodie barn find that my buddy got for $35 down in Elsinore.  He tired of it and I got it for $75.  Cherry?  It had a straight body, good tires, excellent wood, the spotlight, original radio and all the other extras.  Painted it maroon, put on a new white leather top and after many miles of up and down the coast took the Greg Noll surf team and my brother and one of his gremmie friends to the east coast.  Great rig but one night....of course I'm from southern California, what else would happen...no anti freeze so adios woodie.  A friend back east eventually sold it for me for $75. My, things have come on a bit since then.  So, in the summer of l965 I rented a shop near the Belmont Shore pier from which to peddle my cartoons and hatch cover tables.  Driving along in Long Beach I spot a really straight ahead 1948 Ford woodie for sale by the original owner.  What  a gouger.  Hit me a hundred bucks for it.  Joe Barnett and I took it down to Tijuana for a new top, upholstery and carpet. That thing ran so good.  Up to Santa Cruz, down to Mexico, all over the place.  Got smacked into.  For the record surfers I knew and their board haulers.  Joe Barnett in addition to his T touring and the mail truck  had a beautiful Chevy Nomad station wagon, Dennis Handy, football star at Newport High School and later Navy Seal in Nam had a '55 chevy panel.  We took it once to El Monte Legion Stadium to see Jimmy Reed.  Only white guys there.  Not to worry.  Dennis was a warmed over bad news terror.  After a few snotty remarks about surfers he informed them of their immediate serious problems  if they didn't shut up and they knew by the look in his eye he meant it.  About that time the announcer started to rile them up again with snide remarks about white guys and surf boards and from a side door in walked Jimmy Reed, his band and Mrs. Reed. I hurriedly went to her, said that I was doing a paper for school (I really was) on Jimmy but don't know if I was going to make it out of here alive.  She was neat.  Smiled big, looked at the announcer and then asked me what I wanted to hear Jimmy play...Bright Lights, Big City, Big Boss Man and Got Me Running and Hiding I replied.  She relayed this to Jimmy and a grand time was then had by all.  Calvin Delaney who lived in southern California and the islands had a '38 Dodge panel that was made to sleep in and haul boards. Bob Williams, father of Dave, had a, I believe 1950 Chrysler woodie to haul his wave riders around in.  Not entirely related to the subject.  Dick Kraft was one of the most creative hot rodders that ever lived.  A couple of his roadsters won big in the Oakland roadster show and one was on a l954 issue of Hot Rod magazine.  Kraft is credited with inventing the worlds first dragster.  A Model A Ford that first raced at the Santa Ana drag strip. He was nutcakey about body surfing at the Wedge in Newport Beach.  Down there every chance he got.  Came from there still wet the first time he ran the A dragster (which he had driven on city streets from Anaheim)  During the war he body surfed all over the world and if you want to know anything about him he is on the net.  I was the last guy to see Dick before he died in January of 2009.  Not enough space here to retell some of his great stories about fun in the ocean.  My other board hauler that I had brought home from the army was a like new 1937 Plymouth sedan.  When I bought the Merc woodie I sold the Plymouth to a kid for fifteen dollars.    Bob Martin, of my previously mentioned, Mexico surf run had a l947 Chevy panel that I ended up with for awhile.  Dick Dale had an Econoline Ford van for his boards. A book in itself could be written about some unique surf wagons that were once a common sight on the beaches of southern California.  If you look at ebay motors or in Hemmings Motor News you will seel that fifty thousand dollars is not an unusual price for many woodies.  Happy trails.  Gene

   
Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including Surfer and other magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Aloha,

From Gary Sahagen: Free ice cream cone today (Thursday June 10) in Huntington Beach at The Strand's New Zealand Natural store: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116861761689475

Al Hunt's email: al@aspworldtour.com  which I forgot to furnish last blurb.

His magazines wanted page: http://www.allaboutsurfing.com/magswanted.html

He also has a cool Magazine History page: http://www.allaboutsurfing.com/magazinehistory.html and a First Issue Gallery: http://www.allaboutsurfing.com/firstissues.html

Here's the first French magazine from 1964.

From Steve Bell: Thought you might like this…. at “ Pomona swap meet” June 6 th 2010 ~ Don't know if was for sale or not:

From Udo Wahn: Surfrider's Making Waves highlighted my latest book in the summer buyers guide. They will have a bit about the book in the June issues as well. http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b102a139#/b102a139/12

It is also in HawaiiReaders.com's Blog: http://www.hawaiireaders.com/blog/2009/09/04/cabo-corals-secret-surf-spot/

A reminder from Robb Havassy: Surf Story at Surfing Heritage June 13:

From Sandy Hall: A fter 154 years the Honolulu Advertiser is no more, as of Sunday June 6. The Star-Bulletin purchased it. We are now a 1 newspaper town: the Honolulu Star Advertiser.

Also: The Bishop Museum has a Surfing exhibit, June 19-Sept 6, with boards from their superb collection. http://www.bishopmuseum.org/exhibits/comingup.html

From Puddy: Surfing in Corpus Christi and Port Aransas, by authors Dan Parker, Michelle Christenson and the Texas Surf Museum is out. The book explores the 50-year history of surfing throughout the Coastal Bend region of Texas. 

I have a few copies.  http://www.surfbooks.com/booksforsale.htm  (4th row down)

From Howard Wallace: Ohno visits Maui surfers
http://mauinow.com/2010/06/03/video-speed-skater-apolo-ohno-brings-olympic-hopes-to-maui-surfers/

From Morgane of Rayne Longboards - Vancouver:  We produce high quality performance orientated longboards. and....currently we are promoting three longboarders traveling across Peru and Bolivia. http://www.youtube.com/v/ahLXCHMXy2s&hl=en_US&fs=1 &

From Gary Lynch: Crocodiles Can Surf Across Oceans, Scientists Say - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/08/crocodiles-surfing-across-oceans_n_605368.html

Another installment from Gene Brown, author of Hodad's Beware : 

Some memories of early surfing history.  The first surfer I ever knew was Louis Grabbit who lived in Mission or Ocean Beach in San Diego sometime in the late 1930's up through the fifties.  On Sundays my father who was a tight buddy of Louis would take us to his home for a visit.  How could I forget the monstrous,fat and long old wooden board (we also saw ones made of, I think, plexiglass) which had a small window in it for viewing into the sea. Louis would take us to someplace around La Jolla and show us his surfing skills.  He wasn't the only one to have a big board.  My little brother and I walked around that area and saw more than a few of the big boards either leaning against a house or hung by ropes from the ceiling in a garage.  I also think Louis was the first one I ever heard to use the word bitchin'.  There was much camaderie between surfers in the early days.  Sort of an all for one and one for all spirit. As a sidenote along these lines.  On full moon nights  a carload or two of us would go down to the Huntington Cliffs, when you could still park on PCH, and have super times on those moonlit waves. Joe DiGiorgio who I believe owns a motel now in Santa Barbara was one of us along with some others who came to see their pictures later in Surfer Magazine.  North of the border was great but down below Tijuana  at Kilometer 39 were cliffs to walk down and great sets.  Even that place got crowded by the seventies. Another side bar.  One day David Hushman, Eddie Fairfield, Dick Booher, Bob Martin, Billy Waters and myself took my '49 woodie to K39.  Was I innocent at the time.?  This was a few months after my  getting out of the army in l96l.  For some reason my companions insisted that I drive.  All right, fine. So, after an exceptional day on the waves we head back through Tijuana. I am instructed to pull over and park it. Also, they had something to do so could I guard our valuables?  Sure.    After my  watching the glow of lights along Revolution Avenue for about half an hour my comrades of the waves returned. Off to the border crossing.  Dicky Booher pretends like he has been heavily into the cooking sherry.  The border guards make him pour out whatever he was drinking. Off we go.  About three minutes north there was much whooping and shouting as they pulled stuff from under the seats.  Bennies, reds, and all kinds of stuff I'd never seen in my sheltered life. So.  They all get ripped, produce an air pistol and let fly all the way home.  Without mentioning names.  They were all dedicated surfers and good at it.  One went back later to Mexico, put a lot of weed in the valve covers of a corvette.  It caught fire and who knows how many people got loaded within a mile around?  He spent seven years in San Quentin and came home looking quite old.  Another, of a prominent athletic bent in his youth drank a considerable amount of straight shots at a bar in Anaheim, walked out into the cold February night and died in an alley. This was when I worked at the Anaheim Bulletin and for his mothers sake I wrote an obit that almost compared him to Jim Thorpe or Jesse Owens.  Most surfers I knew then were health nuts but every group has that dark sheep fringe.  Speaking of.  Joe Barnett, a Long Beach hot rod and surfing legend.  They broke the mold on him.  He had a 1930 Model A US Postal van with an uncle sam wants you picture on the side.  A highly intelligent and fun guy.  I spent time with him at old tin can beach, the cliffs of course and other surfing spots.  At night we would get into his 1926 Model T Touring car that had a healthy big bore chevy engine and headed up to the Hollywood area.  He usually took a surfboard along in case things might be inviting on our return trip along the coast highway.  Joe has disappeared.  Friends claim he sold all and moved down to the Amazon River.  Mike, I am just rambling along here as the memories surface.  More to come. Gene

From Susan Wickstrand: Susan Wickstrand is the latest surf artist to be added to Club Of The Waves. Her art is really different and cool, mixing mediums like collage, photography, oil and encaustic (wax) on wood panel.  http://www.clubofthewaves.com/artistprofiles/susan_wickstrand.html

Here with photographer Art Brewer:

From Richard Warner: His artwork will be at the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar:   http://richardswarner.com/The%20Ocean.html

Aloha,
joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including Surfer and other magazines: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Monday, June 07, 2010

Aloha,

From John Bishop: re: Bill "Hadji" Hein: This info is for all who knew him or would have liked to. Sadly he passed at 10:00 PM last night, Thursday.  We will be planning a paddle out in about 3 weeks. 

He would be turning 92 next week and had just renewed his motor cycle license last week.  He served as a Lifeguard in the late 1930's along Mission Beach.  Here is Hadji on the right with Doc Paskowitz:

From Al Hunt: Magazines Wanted: To complete my collection of 60's mags I need a few Makaha programs and only a few others. What I am after are some missing ones and others that need upgrading. Willing to buy, trade or partial trade/buy. Not willing to pay extortion prices though.

They are:

Competition Surf Summer 1967 volume 2#1.

Greg Noll Funnies and Cartoon.

Petersen's Yearbook 1963 HARDBOUND (does it exist)

SI Surfing Illustrated volume 4#1 June. My cover is not too good.

Surf by Mike Mann 1977 volume 1#4 Fall. Again cover poor.

Surfing East volume 1#2 Fall 1965.

Surfing News Voice of Surfing World EAST COAST edition March 1967 volume 1#1.

Surfer Calendars 1963-74 and 1981 Surfing Calendar 1980

Makaha programs 4th, 5th, 8th, 17th and 21st. Not sure if 18th – 1970 exists. Randy Rarick and myself believe it does not but if someone has one please tell us.

That's it for old stuff but I still need some new stuff so if anyone has collections of: Californian ‘Waves” mag , “Surf Scene”, East Coast “Waverider”, East Coast “Shred”, “Inside del Mar”, “Hapa”, “Jacksonville Surfer” or “South East Surfer” as it was named later, “North Coast Surf Express”, “Kema”, “Gulf Coast Surf”, “FLA Surf”, “Flat”, “Channel”, “Beach n Waves” and finally “Atlantic Surfer”. I need select editions of these titles to complete my collection and have over 5,000 magazines to trade with or can purchase as long as a reasonable price, which these mags should be as they are mostly 1980 onwards.

Help Al complete the most extensive collection in the world. Currently just over 14,800 different magazines. Better in Al's collection than in your garage or storage room.al@aspworldtour.com

From Jeremy Oxenden: A "Surf Double Feature Friday" will be held on June 11th at the OC Tavern in San Clemente, Ca.  Rell Sunn Bronze Memorial Project and Surfing Heritage Foundation will host a fundraiser with a night of film, fun and music. http://www.rellsunn.com/events.htm

Also:  On the grass is a replica Hawaiian Olo made by Tom P Stone from Willie Willie wood or bred fruit, I think - Peter Robinson giving a surf history talk holding Jack Cousteau style diving suit. http://www.museumofbritishsurfing.org.uk/

From Jim Kempton: Billabong Pro J-Bay, will bring the world's top 45 ranked professional surfers to the renowned waves of Jeffreys Bay in July. Scheduled for 15-25 July, Stop No. 4 of 10 on the 2010 ASP World Tour will again be staged at Supertubes. http://www.billabongpro.com/

From Fernando:  Liquid Nation Ball 7, the largest surfing industry fundraiser for 13 humanitarian organizations, will be held on the Saturday night, August 14th.  SIMA Humanitarian of the Year award to San Diego resident Jason Mraz, a surfer, fellow humanitarian and well known singer and composer.  http://www.sima.com/events/liquid-nation-ball.aspx

From Michael Kew: Board Swap - Free Admission, Tacos and Beer. WHERE: Fletcher Chouinard Designs
43 S. Olive St. Ventura, CA 93003
WHEN:
Saturday, June 26th 12-4 pm Those interested in selling at the Board Swap must pre-register with FCD. There is no fee to participate. Deadline to register is June 23, by 5 pm. Spaces are expected to fill quickly. Reply to this email ( fcd_events@patagonia.com ) to reserve a space.   http://twitter.com/fcdsurfboards/

Recently have been in touch with Gene Brown via Mike Jipp. Gene did the cartoon book Hodad's Beware and worked on surf movies and posters.

He has written of some fun/interesting adventures in his day to Mike and okayed me pasing them along:

Mike: You do have some treasures.  The June 24 1963 Don Brown long poster. I did the lettering on it. It was one of our last shows on the west coast before we headed east.  Greg Noll .  Is he still alive?  He and I were in my 1947 Mercury Woodie and got lost in New York City.  We circled an area close to Times Square for two hours before we found our hotel.  He was quite tired from the flight.  Puts several quarters into a magic fingers thing that vibrates the mattress and we were awake all night.  Other than that the east coast tour was fun times. Loaned my Velzy board to a guy who won the east coast championship with it.....on really wimpy waves.  On the trip Don Brown and I spent a few nights with Murph the Surf who gained fame for his late night visit to a museum to pick up the Star of India diamond.   We also surfed Nags Head when it was beyond description for no people and beautiful sets.  And a lot of other places.  Hope all is well your way. Brown and one more, some light duplication:  Mike: Fasten your seat belt this is going to be a bumpy one.  Borrowed my surfboards before going in the Army in 1959. Bought a small Velzy the week I got out and used it from the Huntington Cliffs down to K-39 in Baja.  A stripper who worked at the Largo on Sunset Blvd. teamed me up with a publisher Robert I. Lethe who backed my first book Hodads Beware !  He paid the rent for three months on a place in Venice.  I showed up three weeks later and he was a bit stern about how come I wasn't out working?  Because Hodads Beware! was finished. It sold quite well...about 10,000 copies of the first edition and then, I think, 5,000 for an oversized second edition. For Lethe, I also drew three different surf posters that sold pretty good.  One thing leads to another.  Met somebody in Carmel, California when Davey Williams (of Williams Low Buck Tools) and I were headed for the 1962 Worlds Fair in Seattle in a restored 1933 Packard. Dave's dad owned Williams Sporting Goods in the 1940's and fifties.  He belonged to the San Onofre Beach Club and was an early promoter and seller of surfboards in Orange County.  Guy from Carmel who was a tourist from LA invited me to party at Don Brown's home in Pasadena. Don had produced Surf's Up and Have Board Will Travel.  They bombed at first.  I arranged an appropriate sound track for them and away they went.  I narrated both these films up and down the east and west coast in l963 and l964.  We were pioneers in the east when we showed up in a 1949 Chevrolet milk truck made to sleep in. Showed surf films in Great Neck, Long Island and other towns there I can't remember.  Highlight was in Surf City New Jersey where we were greeted with open arms by Wimpy Paulsworth, a popular local character.  We played the movies for about a week in the local Fire House to very enthusiastic crowds.  Then down to Virginia Beach, Florida and finally to the home of Murph the Surf.  Great visit. While heading south I had one of my greater surfing moments. Nags Head North Carolina was deserted then.  We had miles of beach to ourself/   Following summer the late Jim Freeman and I took both Don Brown and Freeman films east.  We did quite well.  That summer I picked up Greg Noll at a New York Airport.  He had come east to promote his boards and surfing in general.  I mentioned in a previous email that we circled this one area in NYC for two hours before finding our hotel.  We had to share a bed.  Greg puts coins into the Magic Fingers box which got the bed to shaking all night long.  I remember Greg commenting..."What is going on?  We fight new york city traffic and then spent the night in a bed that shakes like a Model T Ford." He was well received at shows in NY and New Jersey.  Forgot to mention.  The previous summer I loaned my Velzy board to a hot local surfer who won the east coast championships with it.  Along the way met Bob Zelley who had ordered a Hobie Board in the 1950's and had a signed letter from Hobie Alter indicating that Hobie hoped he enjoyed the board.  That board is still in the family. Assorted tid bits.  Don Brown knew almost everybody of note in the world of surfing.  Apparently there were some fine times in the islands with Bud Browne, Freeman, Severson, Noll,  Rick Grigg, Butch Van Arnsdale and many more.  So.  Brown wanted me to write a surf movie for the big screen.  I did.  It was originally called Surfari.  Talk about a fried rice foul up.  Brown did most of the directing which took place in Hermosa and Redondo Beach. The late  Milton Blair claims to have written this movie and changed the name to Blue Surfari.  Not so.  I busted my ass on it in the spring of 1964 and it premiered on Hollywood Boulevard I believe in 1968.  Somebody really did a number on it.  It was embarrassing to watch but did have some good wave action.  During all this I met Dick Dale of Dick Dale and the Del Tones.  Mentioned him in one of my Hodads Beware! books.  Everybody else I mentioned threatened to sue me.  Not Dick.  He invited me down to his house for dinner and we were pretty good friends for awhile.   I would go with him when he did the music for some of those beach blanket bingo flicks of the early sixties.  Had some nice talks with Annette Funicello . She was a lovely person.   Incidentally Dick really could surf.  He was a good guy but got screwed by people he trusted and turned a tad cynical after awhile.  Dale Velzy was one of my favorite guys.  He was shaping down by Newport Beach and I remember his lack of respect for some who had been formally educated.  He knew me but when some of my buddies from Orange Coast College came along he would ask them if they were college pricks or did they really know anything. I liked to hear Velzy talk about his archery  exploits. A big part of surf history for many of us was the Redenvouz Ball Room in Newport Beach.  Fun times?  Oh, boy.  Looked like bleached blonde surfer convention on saturday nights.  Woodies predominated. I did cartoon surf murals from northern California to Seattle in the sixties.  They are probably all gone now.  Will continue this but will close now with.  I had an incredible collection of surf stuff.  My home, manuscripts I'd worked on for two years, about 5,000 books, family heritage going back to the 1840's, rare WWII stuff my uncles had brought home and more all  burned up.  In one hour our home went to the ground.  It was just before Christmas a couple of years ago.  My wife died two days before Christmas and as we had been a 37 year love affair it was horrible for awhile.  I'll never be able to get some of the surfing stuff I had but would like to get a repro, if possible, of Don Brown's Surfs Up and Have Board, Will Travel and now Issue No. l of Hodads Beware.  I also would dearly like to find a vid of Have Board, Will Travel and Surf's Up.  As memories return will send you more.  Gene

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Thursday, June 03, 2010

Aloha,

From Wendy Lee: A reminder about this Saturday: DIANE SANDERS MEMORIAL AND PADDLE OUT
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when: Saturday, June 12th @ 9:00am
where: Malibu Surfrider Beach
where: 23050 PCH
. a pot-luck lunch will follow the paddle out

From Gary Lynch: Michael Kew article about trains and surfing - Surflining: http://www.independent.com/news/2010/may/31/surflining/

From Ben Marcus: re: Randolph James' Santa Cruz pics and jots: He is right that the Santa Cruz/San Lorenzo Rivermouth is not usually good in July, but there are exceptions.
     During the El Nino summer of 1982/1983, the Rivermouth had an epic sandbar that lasted well into August.
     I had a hotdog wagon on the beach at Seabright/Castle Beach then and I remember leaning out of the back day after day, and watching Rivermouth firing during a summer that had an awful lot of south swells.
     Who knows how different Rivermouth was before they put the harbor in, but 1885 could have been an El Nino year, and there could have been perfect waves breaking out there on a big southern hemi.
     Good enough to make some princes chop down some trees and go surfboard swimming.

I asked Ben if I could run this stuff and he sent me another pic...very cool!

From MSA: The Malibu Surfing Association Classic will be Sept. 11-12 this year: http://www.msasurfing.org/events/

From Betty Belts: Designer Donna von Hoesslin and partner photographer/filmmaker David Pu'u were accompanied by surfers Mary Osborne, Jeanette Ortiz and Sierra and Hailey Partridge to Bali and created a new design for each and each selected a cause to have 10% of sales go to. http://www.bettybelts.com

From Tim De La Vega:  Governor Linda Lingle today issued an executive order to establish surfing reserves at two of Hawai‘i's most important and well-known surfing areas.  The executive order “acknowledges the cultural, sports and historic significance of important surf sites in Hawai‘i,” and “raises public awareness about the importance of protecting, nourishing and developing Hawai‘i's world famous surf sites."
The Governor's order establishes the Duke Kahanamoku Surfing Reserve, which includes surf breaks bounded by the Ala Wai and the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, as well as the North Shore Surfing Reserve, which includes surf breaks from Ali‘i Beach in Hale‘iwa to Sunset Beach.  Both surf reserves are located off the waters of O‘ahu. http://hawaii.gov/gov/news/files/2010/june/governor-establishes-hawai-i-surfing-reserves http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100602/BREAKING01/100602053?source=rss_breaking

From David Pu'u: His latest blog entry is about Jay Moriarity, and the subject of a movie, apparently: http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?p=3224

From Michael Kew: Surf Story Art Show at the Surfing Heritage Museum: http://www.surfingheritage.org/

From Stuart Coleman:  Honolulu, HI (6/1/10): In celebration of International Surfing Day (ISD) on June 20th, the Surfrider Foundation's Hawaii Chapters and Kona Brewing Company are proud to present the Summer Concert Tour with the Throwdowns. Set to hit Oahu, Maui, Kauai & the Big Island, the tour will raise funds and recruit new members for Surfrider's chapters.  The four concerts will also raise awareness of issues like water quality, beach access, coastal preservation and plastic marine debris.  

Friday, June 18th: The Mixx, Kona, BIG ISLAND (with special guests)

Saturday, June 19th: The Fresh Cafe, Honolulu, OAHU (with the Deadbeats & Analogic)

Friday, June 25th: The Lava Lounge, Kapa'a, KAUAI (with special guests)

Saturday, June 26th: Mulligan's on the Blue, Wailea, MAUI (with Moth & Sounds of Addiction)

International Surfing Day (ISD) is on June 20th....okay! Get in the water. (I'll certainly take a shower that day and look at a surf mag or two. :>)

From Ken Haygood: La Jolla Historical Society has a Surfing in La Jolla exhibit - 780 Prospect St. 92037: http://www.lajollahistory.org/events/waveriders-exhibit//

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Aloha,

From Randolph James: re: Santa Cruz Hawaiian princes and surfing Santa Cruz:

My great great grandfather was one of the founding town fathers of Santa Cruz.
He settled in the area (first in the Redwood Estates in the mountains) and then in the city itself in the early 1860's .. I've done quite a bit of research about him and the family and remember seeing the 1885 article and a few other articles about the 'young Hawaiian princes'  while doing the research.

I surfed the Santa Cruz area quite a bit in the 1960's & 70's which is why this article still interests me.
My great grandfather was a photographer so I've attached a few 1880's photos he took of the area.

FYI the photo of the Santa Cruz Waterfront in the mid-1880's erroneously describes the river mouth as located far right.
In fact the river mouth is located just in front of the jutting portion of land just about dead center in the picture. That is where the mouth of the San Lorenzon River is located, thus the name 'river mouth.'
The area they have erroneously identified would in present day be located just to the left of the existing wharf.

Another interesting thing about this story is the month of the article; July.
Everyone realizes that a surf spot can change over time.
And no doubt rivermouth was destroyed when the santa cruz harbor was developed and the breakwater was installed.
But the best place to surf in that area was actually just off the prominence of land that sticks out.
The peaks in the right conditions were picture perfect that would peel and tube in both directions.
But they needed a decent north-western swell and it was usually the best in late winter and early spring when the sandbars (caused by the sand moving in and out of the San Lorenzo River) had a chance to form.
My conclusion being that in July it couldn't have been that great!
But that would be consistent with the description about  the danger of the rocky cliff.

That area was one of my favorite.
You could walk from one side of the point to the other through a large cave (tunnel) connecting each side.
The point has since collapsed and the cave has disappeared.

1.  River mouth (just above the head of the swimmer)

2.  River mouth (far right) a closer on the beach

3.  River mouth would be to the right (out of the picture) with the bath house(s) on the left

4.  The area just to the left of the first wharf is the area misidentified in the article ... FYI the point on the far right is where Cowells surf break is located with "Indicators" surf break just off the point and around the point up the coast a few hundred yards is where Steamers Lane is located.

From Gary Lynch: Artwork by Alan Casagrande at www.bongobaystudios.com

100th birthday of Emil Sigler is this month... here is a favorite pic of mine: 

Did you know Emil lost an eye as a child? and Still became a great lifeguard and early surfer.

From Frand DaSilva: I saw that surfing elephant in Italy last month in the Milan airport!  (In photo with me is my daughter Barbara and wife Debbie)

From Craig Hibbard: Next  Sacred Craft Consumer Surfboard Expo is open to the public and takes place August 14 & 15 at the award winning 'Sail Pavilion' in the San Diego Convention Center. Sacred Craft includes live shaping, laminating, art, music, film, book signings, legends, and hundreds of world-class surfboard shapers, designers and lovers of the craft. http://www.surfboardshow.com/

Simon Anderson will be the Honoree.

From Donna Klassen: Please join us at one or all of the following book signings of Mike Hynson - Transcendental Memories of a Surf Rebel. Mike will also be signing autographs and reminiscing about his 50 year career in designing and shaping surfboards.

Saturday, 6/12/10: 4th Annual Surf-A-Rama at Doheny Beach, Dana Point, from 9:00 - 4:00PM

Saturday, 6/19/10: Sponsored by the Surfing Lawyers, at the Surfing Heritage Foundation, 111 Calle Iglesia, San Clemente, from 6-9PM

Saturday, 7/10/10: The Ocean Room, Encinitas Community Library, 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas, from 1-5.

From Jeremy Oxenden: He visited Pete Robinson at the British Surfing Museum and old boards he loaned from Jersey:   http://www.facebook.com/notes/museum-of-british-surfing/jersey-boys/431545384459

Also from Jeremy: Dom with the 10 foot stripy Pin Tail light weight and me with the 11 foot Bing Slide:

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Aloha,

Thanks to all those who wrote.... generally, very okay with however many blurbs sent.....Anyone not wanting to receive the emails can go online and see the blurb here: http://www.surfbooks.com/misc.htm

Don Fleming's comment: IF YOU SEND AT TWICE A WEEK DOES THAT MEAN OLD SURFERS WILL KICK OFF FASTER? NO NO NO...WE'RE GOING TOO FAST NOW. JUST KIDDING JOE.

From Michael Kew: Annie Spurgeon has passed away: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/santacruzsentinel/obituary.aspx?n=annie-spurgeon&pid=143146096

From Sandy Hall: Fred Cady was Viola's HUSBAND, not uncle. He and Duke met in Philly, and he was hired as water polo/swim coach at the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

We actually have a trophy in Cady's name at the Univ. of Hawaii's Duke Kahanamoku Swimming Pool. He was also a fine artist.

I talked to Viola some years back -- she lived to about 104--and her memories were very sharp. She really got a kick out of appearing on the Johnny Carson Show when she was about 100, as she was still diving.

Someone needs to write a book about Fred!

From Gary Lynch: photo of Tom Blake with Fred Cady and Viola Hartman:

From Barbara Allen:  Wow, Viola was some lady - found this http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jun/02/local/me-krahn2

From Paul Mullins: Picture from book: Viola and Duke, 1922 Laguna Beach: (a discussion has ensued as to whether the date and place are correct....probably later 20's and probably Corona Del Mar.)

From David Aguirre: Any members of the press/photographers wishing to be at the private party and celebration in Oceanside for the 100th birthday of Emil Sigler, June 19. Let me know, I can get you in. Wink, wink;>)  jtabler@san.rr.com

George Marlor and Emil with their redwood boards in 1928.

From Dick Saar: Surfing elephant, fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDm8JWTjnNQ&feature=email

Also from Dick: The Gala at the California Surf Museum is coming up - June 5:  http://www.surfmuseum.org/

From Gary Lynch: Bio of Brandt Goldsworthy:  http://www.compositesworld.com/articles/brandt-goldsworthy-composites-visionary  "Also during this period, Goldsworthy — an avid surfer and member of the original San Onofre Surf Club — joined Pete Peterson to develop the original fiberglass surfboard."

From Steve Collins: Longboard Collector's Club meet dates and locations:

June 12------------Surf-A-Rama---Doheny
July 10--------------Baja Cantina----Marina Del Rey
August 14-----------Motel No Tell----Huntington Beach 
September 4-------Carmel--Baja Cantina North--Carmel
October 23--------Surfing Heritage Museum---San Clemente
December 4------End Of Year Doheny Meet

From Gary Lynch: Bob Green's latest paipo interview: with Jeff Callaghan: http://mypaipoboards.org/interviews/JeffCallaghan/JeffCallaghan_2010-0516.shtml
Aloha,
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Aloha,

Question : How do you feel about me sending this out twice a week from time to time ?

From Paul Mullins: Book with a chapter on Duke :  Chapter 6 is all about "Duke" her friend with lots of pictures, etc. On page 79 is picture of her tandem surfing with the Duke in 1922 at laguna beach! Her uncle Fred Cady was Duke's swimming coach for the olympics and she knew Duke very well.

Appears to be still available from the publisher: http://www.specialbooks.com/viola.htm

From Robb Havassy: Opening of artshow - today - paintings of his and Ben Brough's will be on exhibit at the Sol Grill for the next couple months. Also: coming up: SUNDAY June 13th at Surfing Heritage Foundation in San Clemente will be a big group show and fundraiser for the museum...20+ artists from the book (Surf Stories), music, drinks and food....

From David Aguirre: There will be a private party and celebration in Oceanside for the 100th birthday of Emil Sigler, June 19. Those interested in attending contact David:  djaguirre1@cox.net

Here's Emil with Bill Rumsey in 1934, when they rowed from San Diego to Catalina:

From Randy Hill: I am trying to locate a brass deck plug for a vintage Blake Hollow Kookbox (LA Ladder, Catalina Equipment, etc...) that I am rebuilding. randyhill@me.com

From Bart Tucker: Film from 1945, August 14 - VJDay, spontaneous celebrations along Kalakaua, Waikiki, a couple seconds of surf.  http://vimeo.com/5645171

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Aloha,

Oldest living surfer? Emil Sigler hits 100 next month!

From John Elwell: Surfer gets ride of a lifetime....on a shark! http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201004220200/NEWS01/4220333

From David Pu'u: More of his blog ... Adam Virs, shaping, shooting: http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?p=3157

From Gary Lynch: The best way to die? - Body washes up on beach in Santa
Barbara - unidentified as yet: http://www.thedailysound.com/052110drowning (I was reminded of "Freeway" Dave Freeman, the great bodysurfer's passing - rolled off his board at La Jolla Shores. joe t.)

From Randy Rarick: Wayne "Rabbit" Bartholomew is auctioning off some personal memorabilia: http://www.surfinglife.com.au/news/asl-news/4312-own-a-piece-of-surf-history

Longboard gun here...see others: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320534604526&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT

From Simon Mitchell (Corduroy Lines): This weekend...British Longboard Union, Saunton Beach, Longboard Championship: http://www.britsurf.co.uk/events-and-comps/475-blu-event--saunton-this-weekend

From Jeremy Oxenden: Ed Clapp has facilitated the purchase of a John Kelly Hydro Hull surfboard to the Surfing Heritage Foundation: http://www.surfingheritage.org/

Aloha,
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Aloha,

From David Aguirre: Emil Zigler turns 100 next month!

Copies still available: On Special $30 and free shipping . http://www.surfbooks.com/booksforsale.htm

From Jeff Pence: The Clean Water Pro/Am surf contest is this weekend in Westport, Washington. May 14-16  http://www.surfrider.org/cleanwaterclassic/

From Mark Wakeling: I'm helping the family of Abel and Alan gomes find items of their past. Pictures. Any info. Also surfboards of the Gomes', Mark is interested in buying... Mark's email:  bajafishing1856@gmail.com  They shaped for Jacobs... etc... ?

From David Pu'u: http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/? p=3127

From Pete Robinson: The earliest known film in Europe (so far) of anyone using a longboard has been discovered. http://www.facebook.com:80/MuseumofBritishSurfing http://www.a1surf.com/News/Is-this-Britain-s-earliest-stand-up-surfer/NewsID/2324/ShowNews.aspx

Lewis Rosenberg on beach in Cornwall in 1929.

courtesy Museum of British Surfing/Sue Clamp Also on this discovery:

From Jeremy Oxenden: http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/news/Film-captures-pioneers-British-surfing-scene/article-2155578-detail/article.html
Ran into this just now: http://www.surfmovies.co.cc/

From Dick Saar: How Spielberg and Lucas Caught the Surfing Bug:  http://www.deadline.com/2010/05/how-steven-spielberg-and-george-lucas-caught-surf-bug-and-waved-bye-to-points-on-close-encounters-and-star-wars/

From California Surf Museum: Meet Lynne Boyer May 22:   http://surfmuseum.camp8.org/Default.aspx?pageId=334637&eventId=158603&EventViewMode=EventDetails

http://lynneboyer.com/

From Pacific Longboarder: Surf World Torquay museum: http://www.surfworld.com.au/flash_site/home.html

From Gary Lynch: Trestles 'under construction' threat again? http://surferspath.mpora.com/featured-content/trestles-special.html

Comment by Tom Craig: "You've got to be kidding! ... You destroy most of the coastline with power plants and Ritz Carltons and now you want this?Stick to a simple trail!"

From Bruce Gabrielson: The next formal National Surf Schools and Instructors Assn. surf instructor certification class will be held in Huntington Beach July 10-11.  In order to attend, applications must be received in the NSSIA offices by June 11th.  For more information, go to the http://www.nssia.org website.

From Howard Wallace: At the Smithsonian Institute:

Join us for a fun celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage through postage stamps.

Flowers, Sculptures and Surfers!

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Saturday, May 15 th

11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1b_calendar.html?trumbaEmbed=eventid%3D89094812%26view%3Devent%26-childview%3D

One of the activities:

Try out the "Talk Like a Surfer " activity and learn about the life of Duke Kahanamoku, Olympic swimming champion and world-recognized surfer.

Online exhibit: http://www.arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=4&cmd=2&eid=433&slide=toc

From Mike Salisbury: Andy Warhol this time (who did an odd beach film): http://www.onehellofaneye.com/

From Steve Collins: Next meet:Sat. May 22  http://www.longboardcollectorclub.com/calendar.html#next

The family of the famous glasser/shaper, Alan Gomes, might attend the Santa Monica meet, so bring anything relating. They would be thrilled to see it. Beach Cottages meet photos: http://www.longboardcollectorclub.com/events/beachcottages/index.html

Aloha,
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Aloha,

From Gary Lynch: E. Calvin "Tulie" Clark (1917-2010) has passed on: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/dailybreeze/obituary.aspx?n=e-calvin-clark-tulie&pid=142478230  Real estate developer in Torrance area, Lancaster, San Jose, PVE, building over 5,000 homes. Legendary surfer, paddleboard racing champion 1936-42, founder Palos Verdes Surfing Club 1934, charter member San Onofre Surfing Club, rebuilt mining access road to Bluff Cove, LA County Lifeguard, Pioneer Surfers Walk of Fame Hermosa Pier, enjoyed Hennessey's Tuesdays with surfer pals until recent weeks.

From David Pu'u: This photo (published in Deep magazine)  got a 2nd at the annual Association of Free Community Papers conference. Over 2,000 entries were submitted from over 130 companies nationwide...  : http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?p=3014

From Fred Hemmings via Drew Kampion:  What happened to the Hawaii Surfing Reserve Bill? Some have asked how SB2646 (the Hawaii Surfing Reserves), a simple bill honoring surfing in Waikiki and on the North Shore , could have been killed after receiving an unanimous vote in the Senate as well as passing through several unanimous committee votes in both the House and Senate.   This video, which was taken on the last day of session in the House, speaks for itself and is an unfortunate testament to our process.  Thanks goes to those speaking in support of the bill during the floor session in the House. 

Aloha,

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Monday, May 03, 2010

Aloha,

From David Pu'u: Blog/photos of Sacred Craft in Ventura a week or so back: http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?p=2859

From Jose V. Glez: Latest Radical Surf: www.radicalsurfmag.com
www.josevglez.com www.josevglez.blogspot.com

From Michael Kew: Surfer's Journal is looking for volunteer reader/indexers - Journalistas: http://www.surfersjournal.com/journal_entry/call-journalistas Great idea...

SJ says: "With the end-goal of making every TSJ article ever published searchable and available to subscribers through our website, we are physically rereading and keywording all 1500+ of them. Simultaneously, we are scanning, converting, down res-ing the articles, (otherwise “conforming our assets” in tech-speak) for posting.

Isn't there an automated process for this, you ask? There is. It's called optical character recognition (OCR), and it reads scanned text and generates keywords. But for the index to really be accurate, we also need surf-minded eyes identifying the important topics for their fellow surfers."

From Rob Yani:  He's converting his book, The Santa Louise Kid - Murder, into a screen play.  ryani1949@aol.com

From Gary Lynch: Rising sea levels/East Coast: http://motherjones.com:80/environment/2010/04/climate-desk-sea-level-rise-epa?page=1

From Drew Kampion: (late on this one...)

a message from Fred Hemmings re: Hawaii Surfing Reserve Bill in Jeopardy:

A last minute effort by one individual has jeopardized the passing of SB2646 (Hawaii Surfing Reserve Bill).  It is extremely important that Hawaii representatives and senators know that there are thousands supporting this bill rather than one vocal, misinformed, and misguided individual who has opposed the bill.   As we all understand and know, the Hawaii Surfing Reserve Bill (SB2646) is ceremonial only in nature and recognizes the cultural and historical value of two surfing spots…Waikiki and the North Shore.  (Makaha was taken out as a Hawaii Surfing Reserve in yesterday's  There are no limitations or regulations involved in this bill which clearly defines its purpose as memorializing and recognizing these two Surfing Reserves.   

Final vote on this bill will be tomorrow (Thursday,  April 29) in both the House and the Senate.  It would be of great benefit if you could send an email to the following Representatives and Senators expressing your strong support for SB2646 (Hawaii Surfing Reserve Bill) with a line or two regarding the value of the bill to Hawaii and the surfing world.  Please do not include this email in your communications and it would be helpful if you “BCC” us on your email.  Attached is a copy of the most recent version of this bill. Send your emails in STRONG SUPPORT of SB2646 to: sens@Capitol.hawaii.gov and reps@Capitol.hawaii.gov

From Mike Salisbury: Trailer for the 2004 film A Broke Down Melody: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs64lM2imhA

Reminder from Malibu Surfing Assoc. - Surf Yer Brains Out ... May 8.

From Joe Ditler: CORONADO'S EMERALD CITY SURF SHOP SCHEDULED TO OPEN IN MAY.  http://www.emeraldcitysurf.com/Home.html  1118 Orange Ave.

From Gary Lynch: India's first multi-purpose Reef: http://vimeo.com/11274816

Also from Gary: National Geographic gets on the surfspot bandwagon: http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/americas-best-adventures/surfing-lost-coast

From Jeremy Oxenden: Jacobs board on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/HAP-JACOBS-BALSA-SURFBOARD-SURFERS-JOURNAL-VINTAGE-/250623765654?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a5a572c96

From Mark Massare via Gary Lynch: Jack O'Neill was honored by the Commonwealth Club in SF last night.

From Brandon Aroyan: Cool film shot for Sacred Craft in Ventura: http://vimeo.com/11272077

Lots of stuff on the Santa Cruz 1885 Hawaiian princes surfing: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_14862354 http://goodtimessantacruz.com/santa-cruz-news/good-times-cover-stories/936-r

Here is the text of the 1885 article and comments by Gary Lynch, Malcolm Gault Williams, and Geoff Cater:

I've transcribed it faithfully, I think .... (I did keep adding words without knowing it. joe t.) Question marks where I wasn't sure of the letters/words....

IT SAYS: "The breakers at the mouth of the river were very fine and? here? ???cred? the very p? (primest?priniest?princest?) of fun, at least, so said those who were 'in the swim'. Some thirty or forty swimmers were dashing and tossing? and plunging thru the breakers, going out only to be tossed back apparently at the will of the waves and making some nervous on-lookers feel sure that they were about to be dashed against the rocks.  The young Hawaiian princes were in the water, enjoying it hugely and giving interesting exhibitions of surf-board swimming as practiced in their native islands. One of the young fellows afterward jumped from the railway bridge, but the water proved too shallow, and  he was stunned and breathless for some little time after.     The evening was quite as delightful as the afternoon. At the river the S.C.City Band played its finest airs by the light of an immense bonfire and boating was the order of the evening. Guitar music and singing added to the charm of the scene and the hours sped all too rapidly. "

From Gary Lynch: Many of us pseudo historians have discussed this article and a few others. There is no hard evidence in print or otherwise that these three Hawaiians had stand up boards and none of us think they would have been olos if they had a stand up size board. We believe someone surfed the mainland before this event and there are many reasons to back that up. Joe Tabler has found evidence in books that wave riding was accomplished using boats and other craft. Even so, and with the Dole Aloha Washington surfers, nothing really took off until Freeth.

That's how I see it. The SC myth needs to be debunked before people in 50 years from now (when we are all dead) pick up on these fictional SC pieces and think it's fact.

From Malcolm Gault Williams: I concur with Gary that this story is being blown way out of proportion, with a lot of conjecture passing as facts.

Olo's? No way. Alaia's? Highly doubtful, unless the Princes did the finish work themselves (remember the concave aspect). Planks? Yeah, I can see that. Kioe (Paipo)? Most likely.

From Geoff Cater:
Some initial comments (and as is often the case, the report invites further questions/research) :

1. The report of "surfboard-swimming" most probably indicates prone surfing.
Given that riding while standing requires considerable skill, if this was in evidence it could be assumed that this would have been reported.
If they used small prone boards, suitable timber would be readily available and relatively easy to construct.

A digression:
Unlike most with an interest in surfing history, I feel that the skills of body and prone surfers have been significantly under valued.
Also note that the ability to ride standing is probably as much a function of wave quality and the rider's skill as the dimensions of the board.
Compare and contrast  Finney: Surfing (1996) on Boards, page 16.

From a modern perspective is is easy to overlook that any type of wave riding activity before the 20th century would have been viewed as impressive by Europeans.
Note that the initial reports from Hawaii only indicate prone surfing, the earliest report of riders "sometimes standing erect" is Rev. William Ellis in 1825.
The earliest report of riding while standing is by James Morrison in Tahiti in 1788.

Of the published images of surfriding 1830-1890, half show the riders either prone, kneeling or sitting.

2. While photography was becoming widespread in the late 19th century,  the early cameras were bulky and generally did not readily capture action.
See attached image:
Anonymous : "Sea side Photographer, circa 1900."
Stereoscopic View, Private collection.
Frizot, Michael (ed) : A New History of Photography.
Konemann Verlagsgesellsvhaft mbH. Bonner Str 126, D-50968 Kohn.
English Edition 1998, page 182.

3. The newspaper article reports the Princes' appearance as an "exhibition" , apparently in conjunction with other organized beach activities on the day.
If so, this could indicate that for the riders this was not a one off occurrence and they had possibly surfed the location previously.

4. Also note the high diving act : "one of the young fellows (presumably one of the Hawaiian Princes) ... jumped from the railway bridge" .
Diving and jumping from extreme heights is also reported by several commentators as a Polynesian "sport" (sorry, no definite references) - an activity involving daring, skill, style and thrills with some parallels to surfriding.

5. Certainly the existence of popular surf-swimming activity ( "thirty or forty swimmers dashing .. and plunging through the breakers" ) in 1885 is worth further examination - does this indicate a rudimentary form of body surfing?
This would roughly parallel the development of body surfing in Australia in the 1890s.

6. While it is known that Polynesians, particularly Hawaiians, travelled around the world in the 19th century (mostly as crew on whaling vessels) and no doubt had occasion to employ their surfing skills, it is unclear if they had any influence on exporting these skills to local communities.
See:
Dana, Richard Henry: Two Years Before the Mast
Harper and Brothers, New York, 1840, pages 52-53.
Scammon, Charles M: The Marine Mammals of the Northwestern Coast of America.
John H. Carmany and Company, San Francisco, and G.P. Putman's Sons, New York, 1874, pages  261-262.

6. If, as has been suggested,  this event initiated the development of a contemporary local (Santa Cruz) surfriding culture, then one would expect to locate further documentation in later editions of The Daily Surf .
Further research would appear warranted.

Geoff.
geoff@surfresearch.com.au

From Gary Lynch: Early views of Santa Cruz: http://www.caviews.printroom.com/ViewGalleryPhoto.asp?evgroupid=11&shopperid=3MRJNW2LL19W8JP856RHCNU01NAHDJQB&userid=caviews&gallery_id=1186245&image_id=6&pos=8

From Keith Eshelman: Tom Brown's new surfing memorabilia site: http://mrsurfjunk.com/

From Daved Sauers via Michael Richard: My dad is PHIL SAUERS. My company, LIQUID LQ, LLC., owns the trademarked logo SURFBOARDS BY PHIL. We are currently licensing and will be relaunching the brand shortly. For your records here is a current and corrected logo for your to replace the logo that is currently listed on your website... which I think is amazing. ( http://surfcrazy.com/stanleys/html/logos.html  )

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Many items now on Ebay including 13 Petersen's Surftoons and Rick Griffin's Man from Utopia: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Monday, April 26, 2010

Aloha,

Some great stuff in these: From Manny Gratz:  I n using that search engine I found pages for "Surfboard Riding" from July 1937 . http://books.google.com/books?id=fCgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA24&dq=surfboard&lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=1#v=onepage&q=surfboard&f=false

And this one on George Greenough , August 1969, Lowell and Eric Blum, the producers of the movie The Fantastic Plastic Machine http://books.google.com/books?id=KCoDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA92&dq=surfboard&lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=2#v=onepage&q=surfboard&f=false

And this one by Tom Blake in how to "make your surfboard into a sailing rig" from August 1940 http://books.google.com/books?id=oScDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA136&dq=surfboard&lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=3#v=onepage&q=surfboard&f=false

And plenty more reading on surfboards inside these magazines. http://books.google.com/books?lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES&id=VicDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Hi+Sibley&q=surfboard&as_coll2=+issn%3A0161-7370 + Cool!

(from joe t.) Here's one with lifeguarding and a picture with many long boards that I like: http://books.google.com/books?id=yCwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78&dq=surfboard&lr=&as_pt=MAGAZINES&cd=15#v=onepage&q=surfboard&f=false - another picture in the above article is a chute at the end of a pier in Santa Monica  for getting into the water quickly on one of the lifeguard hollow mahogany paddle boards , Preston Peterson inventor of the chute doing the honors.

Put on your thinking caps.....A Searching question....... 

From Stuart Scott: Maybe your readers can help me: I'm trying to find out which original photo was the inspiration for the tube riding mural painted on this Aussie panel van (by Holden, GM's Australian operation) around mid 1977. Was it Pipeline? Or maybe Backdoor, and the artist reversed it? The van, called Sea Witch, has become famous and the artist died last year. Trying to find out more for a book I'm writing about the surf-inspired Australian panel van boom of the 1970s. Write Stuart @   noosa_surfingthe60s@yahoo.com.au

Don't want to push my luck, but -- (while casting your minds and perhaps eyes over old Surfer and (more likely) Surfing World magazines ...) Anyone know the source for this surf art, used by Ford Australia in its panel van advertising in 1978? Looks like it was based on a Bustin' Down The Door era photo - ??

noosa_surfingthe60s@yahoo.com.au

Another Searching question coming uppppp......

From Bob Green :  Looking for film/info : The film was shown in Sydney late 1957. Leigh Tingle, now 72, saw the film and made a paipo board he still rides:
http://mypaipoboards.org/interviews/LeighTingle/Leigh_Tingle_2009-0914.shtml

The film was either The Big Surf or Surfing in Hawaii . I was hoping
to find out whether either film contained bellyboard footage and the
details of the footage (type of board surfed, who was surfing etc)?

Other than a wave or two in an old surf movie, the only paipo footage
I am aware of is:

Bellyboarding 1964 by Barry McGuigan. (features Leigh Tingle)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lss-QILYwGc

Paipo  Surfing 1958-1965 (features John Waidelich and Jim Growney)  -
Stig Waidelich's http://vimeo.com/9742493

There is also the 1963 footage of Val Ching riding paipo stand up.

We'd be interested in hearing about any other footage or from paipo
riders from the past (or present):  bgreen@dyson.brisnet.org.au

http://mypaipoboards.org/

From Jeremy Oxenden: Via Cliff LeClerc: Peter Misson's new board:

Also from Jeremy:

Here's a video I ran across on the 2008 Board Party: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySvs3ZAU_IY

From Randy Chatillon: A second showing has been added this Wednesday in Newport for the Newport Beach film Living It Forever: http://www.livingitforeverthemovie.com/

From Ben Marcus: His latest writing project is on skateboard history: http://benmarcusrules.com/ Aloha, joe t. My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

53 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Monday, April 19, 2010

Aloha,

From Jeremy Oxenden: We just lost a great old timer today, the nicest Jersey Surfer you could hope to meet, Tommy Bates. Tommy and his bother Richard made hollow ply wood boards in the late 50's and fiber glass boards in the late 60's and worked at the Freedom surf board factory in its early days. He was a Great Surfer and Ding Dr. He lived in NZ for some years in the 70's, had a holiday home in Carteret Normandy and surfed there. He was always great fun to surf with.

#1 below:

Tommy at left:

From Gary Lynch: Great story about Kit Horn by Corky Carroll in today's Register.   "Late great Kit Horn, balsa wood pioneer" : http://www.ocregister.com/news/kit-70599-ocprint-one-surf.html

Also from Gary: Eco-friendly surfboard shaping:   http://www.latimes.com:80/news/local/la-me-surfboard16-2010apr16,0,947426.story

From Kathy Zuckerman: Gidget movie documentary: NORTH AMERICAN PREMIER OF MAJOR RE-CUT OF GIDGET DOC - AT 2010 NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL W ednesday, April 28, 2010, 4pm Edwards Island Cinemas 3 Newport Beach, CA Tickets: newportbeachfilmfest.com  Kathy (Gidget) will be in attendance with members of the cast and crew.

From Steve Collins: Longboard Collector's Club meet Saturday, Apr 24 coming up at the Beach Cottages in Mission Beach, San Diego - Friday night BBQ and early bird board viewing.  RSVP caveob@yahoo.com or call 619 501-5352. http://www.longboardcollectorclub.com/  Event theme: Art Surfboards. (Mission Blvd. between Thomas and Reed.

From Branden Aroyan: Just wanted to let you know that shawn stussy just launched his new brand, s/double:  http://s-double.com/   and it's epic!

From Steve Pezman: Re: the poster below  - note, the photo dated 1959 of Ilima Kalama with board under arm is likely misdated. That looks like a foam board with stringer, not at all likely for that year. Looks more like early 60s.

From the California Surf Museum: California Surf Museum Gala will be bringing to life the museum's Women On Waves exhibit. The guest of honor for the evening is four-time world champion Lisa Andersen . She will be joined by champion surfers, including Debbie Beacham, Jen Smith, Kassia Meador, Jericho Poppler, Linda Benson, Margo Godfrey, and surfing icon Kathy "Gidget" Kohner Zuckerman. California Surf Museum, 312 Pier View Way in Oceanside.Saturday, June 5th 5-10 pm http://www.surfmuseum.org/

From Jeremy Oxenden: Fin art by Edinburgh artist Tim Le Breuilly :

From Susan Wickstrand-Roche: Gerry Lopez with holding his very own Susan Wickstrand work of art featuring him at Pipeline:

From Mark Massara via Gary Lynch: Baker Beach, SF: Remote and cold and no crowds but plenty of daily self discipline.

From Rob Yani: In my book The Santa Louise Kid – Murder by T. Robert Yani – Heretic, the main character, Jamie Tomas Williams, is the grandson of God: after my wife read my book she told me I'm going to hell. So, if you're not very religious buy my book and you'll get a good read, if you are religious buy my book and burn it, you will feel better. (I have a couple copies still... in the new arrivals section: http://www.surfbooks.com/booksforsale.htm )  

From Philippe Zibin: Another book... http://www.clarklittlephotography.com:80/book.php

From Stuart Coleman:  The Leadership Certificate Program will host the free screening of award-winning film FLOW – For the Love of Water at Spalding Auditorium at the University of Hawaii at Manoa on Sun. evening, 4/25, 5pm – 7pm.   - Interviews with scientists and activists reveal the issues, introducing many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the 'water grab', while asking ‘CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?'

Now have a Surfabout Magazine - Cover Gallery up.... aided with many scans from Philippe Zibin: http://www.surfbooks.com/surfabout.htm

From Scott McDougall: This is a new piece, it features a spot up in the NW corner of the U.S. I'm doing a signed & numbered print edition from. The giclee prints are approx. 19" x 13" and printed on an acid free, 100% cotton rag stock. Edition of 100. $110 shipped. uforick@earthlink.net Scott's site: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~uforick/mcduck

From Mike Salisbury: One of our latest. thanks to airrion copeland,ted woods, dan michel. creative direction: mikesalisbury.net, design/illustration: gustavo morais, jr a.d bryce wendelaar (and a tip o' the hat to j.v.h.)

Creative Direction: www.MikeSalisbury.net ; Design and Illustration: Gustavo Morais gustavo@st8.la

From Susan Wickstrand: May 15 opening art show in Cardiff:

Bibliographical additions from Geoff at Surf Research: (#2 has a board with a sheet metal deck?!! )

1. I was recently emailed by Howard Fink who noted that Hi Sibley's 1935 design article in Popular Science Magazine is now posted on google.books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=VicDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA79&dq=Hi%20Sibley&lr&as_pt=MAGAZINES&pg=PA79#v=onepage&q=Hi%20Sibley&f=false

While this is noted in DeLaVega et.al: 200 Years (2004) page 56 and I have included these in my surfresearch.com.au Plans and Specifications Menu, Howard also noted an earlier article by Sibley detailing two prone board designs.

2. Published in Popular Science Magazine in 1928, one board is of hollow construction (with a sheet metal deck ?!!), possibly indicating that Tom Blake was not the only one experimenting with hollow boards around this time.
It is also posted on google.books at:
http://books.google.com/books?id=XycDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA57#v=twopage&q&f=false

Please report if the links do not connect (the bottom one posted as a link, but not the top one after several attempts).

3. I also recently came across a detailed and enthusiastic report of canoe surfriding in New Zealand circa 1884 and published in The Journal of Polynesian Society in 1923.
I will be formatting this and adding it to the surfresearch.com.au Source Documents Menu in the next couple of weeks.

Geoff Cater.
geoff@surfresearch.com.au

Book additions to his site, recently made:

McTavish, Bob: Stoked!
  Hyams Publishing.
  PO Box 171 Huskisson, NSW 2540, 2009.
  www.hyams.com.au
  Editors: Rosanne Fitzgibbons and Brian Purcell.
  Hard cover, 431 pages, black and white photographs, Some of My Friends, Glossary, Index.
 Review
  Bob McTavish's enthusiasm for surfing, and life generally, permeate Stoked!, covering his surfing career up to 1968, which leaves open the possibility of a further volume covering the next 40 years.
While the formative years in Queensland as a member of Caloundra Surf Life Saving Club are highly interesting, for the reader who has closely followed McTavish's numerous media contributions, many of the stories from the 1960s are extremely familiar.
  Indeed, in some cases their re-telling here seems to lack some of the freshness evident in the original published versions.
  Some minor errors in dates or spelling (Milner, not Millner, page 38), are probably the responsibility of the editors.
  A tendency to somewhat overstate the author's impact on the surfing industry is evident, for example the account of the development of the Vee bottom board during 1967 (Part Eight).
  Midget Farrelly had already established the "lightweight" stringerless as an industry standard by 1966 and he played a major role in the subsequent radical reduction in board lengths.
  In 1973, McTavish wrote: "At the same time Midget's shop at Palm Beach was running stiff competition with us at Keyo's.
As we'd cut 2" off, Midget would cut 4" off, then vice versa."
Significantly, he rejects the commonly held myth that his and Nat Young's plus nine foot Vee bottom surfboards taken to Hawaii in December 1967 initiated the Short Board Revolution (pages 383 to 396).

de Mestre, Neville: Body Surfing
  Vengram Educational Services, Queensland, 2009.
  Soft cover, 58 pages, black and white photographs and illustrations, Glossary (Surf Talk).
 Review
  Comprehensive manual on body surfing technique with a strong emphasis on its role in surf life saving and competition.
  Item provided courtesy of Neville de Mestre,
  Disclaimer: The Preface acknowledges the assistance of Geoff Cater @surfresearch.com.au for the preparation of Chapter 2, The Origins of Bodysurfing in Australia .

Crockett, Andrew : Switch-foot II
  Hodaddy Australia
  PH Productions PTE  LTD (Singapore)
  Distributed by Billabong, Australia.???
  www.switch-foot.com
  Hard cover, 369 pages
 Review
  A beautifully presented book, while similar in format to Volume I above, this a far superior work.
  One of the many highlights is the rare and famous "in the tube" photograph of Russell Hughes at Point Cartwright circa 1965 by George Greenough, page 30.
  Originally published as a Surfer magazine poster, it was the first of the series to be sold-out. 

Davey, Emily: Secrets of the Island - An Oral History of Tasmanian Surfing
  Tassurf Publishing, November 2005.
  Printed in China by Everbest Printers
  Soft cover, 200 pages, colour and black and white photgraphs, pree
  clippings, Gallery, Acknowledgements, About the Author.
 Review
  A series of interviews with Tasmanian surfers based around a number of stock questions posed by the author (When did you start surfing?, etc) with archival and contemporary photographs.
  Given the project is based on oral history, it is esentially focused post-1958 with little reference to early recreational surfing history and the surf life saving movement.
  Unfortunately the is no interview with Tony Hardy, often cited as a major influence on Tasmanian surfing.
  There are some technical anomolies, for examle "Michael Petterson (sic) was unbelievable at flowing on twin fins" , page 48.

  Fanning, Mick and Baker, Tim: Surf for your Life
  Ebury Press
  Random House Australia Pty. Ltd.
  Level 3, 100 Pacific Hignway, North Sydney NSW 2060, 2009.
  www.randomhouse.com.au
  Soft cover, 345 pages, black & white and colour plates, Acknowledgements.
 Review
  Well written account of Fanning's early family life and surfing up to his professional career.

Thompson, Hunter S. and Steadman, Ralph:  The Curse of Lono
  Taschen Books
  6671 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1508, USA-Los Angles, CA 90028, 2005.
  Hard cover, 208 pages, colour and black and white illustrations.
 Review
  Initially visiting the Hawaiian Islands to cover the 1980 Honolulu Marathon, most of the book records Thompson and Steadman's stay on the Kona coast of the large island, Hawaii.
  While surfing has only a minor role in Thompson's story, there are several outstanding surfing illustrations by Ralph Steadman.
  First published in 1983.

  Witzig, John: Surfing Photographs From the 1960s and '70s.
  Queen Street Fine Art
  34 Queen Street, Woolahra, NSW, 2025. 2007.
  Hard cover, 88 pages.
  Foreward by Robert Drew.
  Introduction by Mark Cherry.
 Review.
  A beautiful collection of surfing themed  photographs by an Australian master of the genre.
  They provide an rich historical portrait of the radical changes in surfriding and surfboards during the period, if from a strictly personal perspective.
  This is probably most evident in the chapter Honolua Bay, pages 26 to 33, where Matt Warshaw writes this "marked the ... arrival of the shortboard" (quoted from his Encyclopedia of Surfing , 2004).
  This evaluation is historically contentious.
  Also note that "Nat Young at Winkipop, 1969" (pages 3 and 4)  was originally published in 1969 on the cover of Witizig's Surf International magazine (Volume 2, Number 4).
  A bellyboardrider (riding on the outside of Nat) has apparently been brushed out of the later version.

The Australian Surfing Kit Company:  How to make Your Own Surfboard.
  The Australian Surfing Kit Company,
  6 Mount Strreet North Sydney, N.S.W.,
  Box 3883 G.P.O., Sydney, N.S.W., circa 1963.
  Soft cover, black and white illustrations, unpaginated.
 Review.
  A detailed construction manual for the buiding of fibreglassed balsa wood or foam core surfboards.
  There is a very brief, but informative history of surfboards in Australia.

Also note current release of documentary: Going Vertical: The Shortboard Revolution
http://www.goingvertical.info/

My review:
While perhaps entertaining for the general viewer, for anyone with a serious interest in the history of surfriding Going Vertical is demonstrably less than  “the truth on who started the Shortboard Revolution.”
Without any of the critical insight evident in the ABC recent “Bombora” documentary (self-interest acknowledged), it simply rounds up the usual suspects and regurgitates a standard collection of well-worn myths and legends.
Hopefully, David Bradbury's political documentaries exhibit a level of rigorous analysis clearly lacking in this production.
(Paraphrasing Basil Fawlty: “Don't mention Midget Farrelly … I mentioned him once but I think I got away with it” ).

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

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Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Aloha, Mike Marshall Memorial: (Bart Tucker photos):

From Caroline: Skateboard Film Festival submissions: (Festival will be in Sept. 2010)... http://www.thelaskatefilmfestival.com/

From Ralph Chatillon: http://www.livingitforeverthemovie.com   World premiere April 28, 2010 Lido Theater Newport Beach , CA

From Stefan LaGrow: Stefan in Northern Costa Rica taken by Shawn LaGrow, Jan09.

 A place my son & I named NE-50.  "NE" is for Northeast of Estuary and 50 is meters from the estuary on the bending sandbank.

And from Ralph: the color poster for the Newport Beach documentary:

From Jeremy Oxenden: a windy day at Les Braye the Bing 10.6 pipe liner was flying:

Also from Jeremy: Gary Murphy and his Brownfish Handplanes were in Sacred Craft in Ventura this week http://www.brownfishhandplanes.com/

From Richard Dowdy: In Montecito, Scott Starr, is collecting and preserving on DVDs all manner of surf films--from full-length films to TV commercials, shorts, 1960s TV shows and trailers. I gave him a 16mm short of "Fantasea," a surf film by Greg Huglin . He is constantly searching for surf-related footage to archive. His email: starrphoto@barfoot.com Give him a plug in the next Blurb and perhaps some footage will surface. He recently found a car commercial that Greg MacGillivray shot, with some surfing in the background.

From Michael Kew: The UK has just announced the creation of the world's largest Marine Protection Area around the Chagos Islands.  http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0401/Britain-names-Chagos-Islands-world-s-largest-marine-preserve http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8599125.stm

From Gary Lynch: Malibu surfing 1947: http://surferspath.mpora.com:80/video/xxl-wooden-boards-malibu-1940s.html

From Barbara Allen: Surfing in Alaska: Aerial perspective: http://surfalaska.net/201004/aerial-perspective-on-surfing-alaska#more-541

From Gary Lynch: Santa Cruz dedicates plaque honoring surfing princes from Hawaii: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_14858028?source=most_viewed

From Stuart Coleman: SURFRIDER HOSTS AN EARTH WEEK CLEANUP AT ALA WAI CANAL ON SUN., 4/18, 10:00-12:00  http://www.surfrider.org/oahu/ Also: Surfrider's Oahu Chapter Celebrates North Shore Victory in Hawaii Supreme Court Ruling http://surf.transworld.net/1000102783/news/surfriders-oahu-chapter-celebrates-a-victory/

From Oswaldo Pepe: Board cam at Mavericks:  http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/gallery-gnarly-helmet-cam-videos/6/

From Jeremy Oxenden: Olo riding in Byron Bay, cool!
http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=XXsT8dB8nGw&feature=player_embedded

From Allen Kukel: Bonhams auction, Al Proom art: http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=USA&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=4568868&iSaleNo=17667&iSaleSectionNo=1

Aloha, joe t.

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Monday, April 05, 2010

Aloha,

From various: Be on the lookout for stolen LeRoy Grannis's surfing memorabilia and other sentimental items - taken late Thursday night on 4/1/10.  LeRoy's son, John Grannis had his business in Redondo broken into and a safe stolen. The surfing memorabilia stolen included:    

A Duke Kahanamoku Surf Contest Trophy inscribed to LeRoy Grannis     100 signed 1963 LeRoy Grannis postcards of Lance Carson surfing at Malibu.  Size 9 inches by 6 inches     100 signed 1960's water transfer decals SURF PHOTOS BY GRANNIS.  Size 2 14/16 inches by 5 12/16 inches.     100 signed LeRoy Grannis photography business cards with the Makaha wipeout

Please be on the lookout for any of these items that may show up for sale. 

If you come across any information that may help in the recovery, please contact Keith Eshelman at maynard@surfclassics.com  or 619-954-6782.

From Don Fleming: Don has sent some pics to use when his Obit. does go to press!! Says Don: "..........I WAS A PRETTY GOOD SURFER WHEN I WAS A YOUNGSTER. THE TOP IS SECOS AND THE MIDDLE IS COUNTY LINE IN THE EARLY 60'S. I was A TEAM RIDER FOR LARRY FELKER WHEN HE LEFT JACOBS!!! GRANDDAUGHTER ON THE BOOGIE AT BOTTOM. SHE'S GOING TO UC SANTA CRUZ NOW AND IS A BETTER SURFER THAN I EVER WAS."

From Glenn Hening: Results of the Rincon Invitational:

On the first weekend in spring, 21 surfing organizations enjoyed two full days of friendship and stoke at the 3rd Annual Rincon Invitational Team Surfing Benefit Event sponsored by the Groundswell Society with the support of the Rincon Pit Crew.

“In the 13 years of running team surfing benefit events at Rincon, I can't remember a weekend with more happy surfers, not to mention the thrill of watching Rincon come alive on Sunday to provide us with an extraordinary afternoon of uncrowded waves,” said Glenn Hening, event organizer. “The Invitational is a unique event in the world of surfing, and many teams are already planning their public service programs for 2010 so as to receive an invitation for 2011.”

From Joel Smith: Pink dolphin: in Calcasieu Lake in Lousiana: ( http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/pinkdolphin.asp . The pictures are true.... from 2007.... takes a while for the news to get around!)

From Simon Mitchell: Corduroy Lines 11 is online: http://issue11.corduroylines.com/

From Jeremy Oxenden: Secrets surf spot, the old German ladder, photo mid 70's, concrete steps there now and angry short boarders. On the write is Paddy the Bear a surfer and artist.

From Robb Havassy: Tax free month: He'll be in Ventura next weekend at the Sacred Craft show:

More on Sacred Craft next weekend from Scott Bass: VARIETY, CULTURE & YATER TRIBUTE HIGHLIGHT SACRED CRAFT VENTURA SCHEDULE
Two day expo features Yater tribute, PT Vs Shaun Tomson, appraisals, art, film, board demos, seminars and much much more. (I'll be there helping with the appraising.) http://www.surfboardshow.com/

From Gary Lynch: Kit Horn obituary in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/sports/03horn.html

From Cary Weiss: Lonboard Collector's Club meet pics in Huntington Beach: http://www.longboardcollectorclub.com/  (next one in San Diego April 24, Beach Cottages - Pacific Beach)

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

Monday, March 29, 2010

Aloha,

From John Elwell: Kit Horn passed away yesterday morning at age 80.  Kit was one of the best, most reliable and unbiased resources of Malibu history of the 1940's. He was a fine surfer and a great guy admired by all. We will miss him.

Picture of Kit Horn from Tom Keck:

From Penfold Crockett: his new book:  http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/papersurfer/7746362

From Michael Kew: Paul Jensen's 5 day hollow wood surfboard building class in June at Half Moon Bay: http://www.hollowsurfboards.com/fins.htm  then another in San Diego in July. Later in the year in Japan and Australia. hollowsurfboards@comcast.net

From California Surf Museum: Their 3rd Annual Gala celebration "Women on Waves" will be June 5th http://surfmuseum.camp8.org/Default.aspx?pageId=334637&eventId=63458&EventViewMode=EventDetails

From Gary Lynch: Ampibious caterpillars discovered in Hawaii:   http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-caterpillar23-2010mar23,0,893554.story

From Malibu Surfing Association: http://www.msasurfing.org/

From Russ Havens: California Angels baseball official scorebook: (Russ has a ticket stub site! http://www.ticketstubcollection.net/  ) c.1986?

From Kevin Short: Today 500,000+ gallons of raw sewage has decided to go surfing at Doheney Beach (can't blame it, the weather is beautiful today).
http://dailyme.com/story/2010032500006674/major-sewage-spill-oc-beaches-closed.html

For the last month, this has been my son's favorite t-shirt, so much so he
asked me to take a photo on his way to school.  He is prescient and I like
his sense of humor!

From Phillipe Zibin: Met Richard Harvey and Dick Hoole at Noosa during the festival....they launch a book about their adventures in the 70's. http://www.harveysurf.com/shop/books/

Harvey, Zibin, Hoole.

and: Another shark attack here...fortunately without victim.....just the surfboard.... http://www.linfo.re/Un-surfeur-attaque-par-un-requin

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

42 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Monday, March 22, 2010

Aloha,

From Joe Ditler and Michael Kew: Swami's event cancelled: http://blogs.surfermag.com/office-blog/swamis-event-cancelled/

From Michael Kew: Shaun Tomson has put out " Surfboards , my first iPhone and iPad application has just gone live on iTunes under Reference for $1.99."

From Glenn Hening: The 3rd Rincon Invitational happened this weekend. The Black Surfing Association were among those taking part: http://blacksurfingassociation.blogspot.com/2010/03/bsa-scores-2nd-place-most-shared-waves.html pic by Paula Lauren:

From Cary Weiss: I used this site to compile pics from my collection of vintage photos and titled it The Early Years-Surfer-Beaches-Boards-- 
Just click on the book and turn the pages- enjoy.   http://www.mypublisher.com/?e=OHm3Q8zJl3SutY7cG8Fs_NNrbh1MalFY&s=fb  (The 'book' can be printed out... 20 pages - $27 - for a single, quality copy.)

From Joel Smith: Surfer trains alpaca to ride the waves in Peru: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/peru/7459372/Surfer-trains-alpaca-to-ride-the-waves-in-Peru.html

similar from Tye Johnson: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/35900529/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/from/ET and Michael Kew: http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Surfing-Peruvian-surfer-Domingo-Pianezzi-rides-wave-alpaca-Pisco-San-Bartolo/ss/events/sp/051203surfing/im:/100316/ids_photos_ts/r1932551874.jpg/

Domingo and Pisco get around!  From Kevin Short: Filmmaker Jeff Girard has finished a short film on my creative process.
http://www.surfersjournal.com/video/kevin-short-documenting-vibe

From Susan Wickstrand-Roche: http://www.susanwickstrand.blogspot.com/

From Drew Kampion: Peter Joseph Burtt is a high-mountain surfer whose voice and kora (a 21-stringed African gourd instrument) tonalities are absolutely astonishing. Both these records are quietly magisterial … and not so much surf music as the kind of music you want to hear on a surf trip … from anywhere to nowhere. http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/PeterJosephBurtt

From Rob Havassey:   http://www.globalsurfnews.com/news.asp?Id_news=45810

Live Art Installation and Studio/Lounge by many of the "SURF STORY" artists. April, 10 & 11th 2010 Ventura Fairgrounds

From Jim Kempton: Women Reach New Heights in Big Wave Surfing: http://billabongxxl.com/girls_performance/ http://billabongxxl.com/main_page/

From Jeremy Oxenden: Noosa Festival results: http://www.aspaustralasia.com/live/2010/noosa/results.php

From Gary Lynch: Book about surfers dealing in drugs:  http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/a-clockwork-orange/schou-orange-sunshine-timothy/

Also from Drew: http://www.patagonia.com/web/us/product/180-south-conquerors-of-the-useless-boxed?p=BK200-0-000  Chris Malloy and Jeff Johnson, inspired by an obscure 1960s era film about a journey from Ventura, California, to Chilean Patagonia, called Mountain of Storms, embarked on a journey of their own – and made a film about it. This book, 180° South: Conquerors of the Useless, is the story of that journey and film.

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/ 20 items now on Ebay including a Surfer's Journal hardcover Volume 1: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Monday, March 15, 2010

Aloha,

Anybody have any copies of Beach Culture they would like to sell or trade?? Contact me: jtabler@san.rr.com I have a couple customers for them.

New book out: Surf Stories for Surfers: availble here: http://www.surfbooks.com/booksforsale.htm

From Mike Salisbury: Next Sacred Craft Show will have appraising of Vintage Surfboards and Paper etc. April 10 in Ventura: http://surfboardshow.com/info.html

Also: his work is included in a Rock and Roll Photo Exhibit in LA: http://www.drkrm.com/

Recent Heathcliff:

From Dr. Dave: His 10' Hot Curl made by friend Mark Carnahan: Mark's site: http://planksurfboards.com/default.aspx

From Will: The Surf Gallery's latest Show: RRR: Group Show & Zine Release ,The Surf Gallery 911 S. Coast Hwy., Laguna Beach, CA 92651. Corner of PCH and Thalia.  http://www.thesurfgallery.com/ Hours: 12-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and by appointment.

From Michael Kew: Mike Black's "Jazz the Glass" surf/comedy film  premier. First night (April 10) of Sacred Craft (surfboardshow.com) at the  Ventura Fairgrounds; this is just down the street after Saturday's 
events are finished, a great (and funny) way to cap off the first day of Sacred Craft.

From Drew Kampion: Kelly Slater Joins World Surfing Reserves Movement First trio of World Surfing Reserves to be in Australia, California, and Hawaii  http://www.worldsurfingreserves.org/

From Jeremy Oxenden: 11 foot Bing Slide shaped by Matt Calvani:

Also: JerseySurfing's photostream:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/jerseylongboarding/

From Tye Johnson: Surfing's New Wave of Aerialists: Competitive surfing is undergoing a major change... http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/03/12/sports/1247467319842/surfings-new-wave-of-aerialists.html?emc=eta1

From Mike Salisbury:  in the New York Times: Surfing's Next Generation Takes to the Air: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/sports/14surf.html?emc=eta1

From Donna G. : New site called BoardJoy : http://www.BoardJoy.com

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

20 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Monday, March 08, 2010

Aloha,

From Gary Lynch: Bob Biniak dies at 51; skateboarder was one of the original Dogtown Z-Boys: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-bob-biniak4-2010mar04,0,3767884.story

Memorial pic by Glen E. Friedman and memorial obit. here: http://idealistpropaganda.blogspot.com/2010/02/bob-bullet-biniak-original-z-boy-bad.html

From Jeremy Oxenden: That is Tim and me trying to surf on sit-on-tops.

Also from Jeremy: Instructional video on how to measure for a Snugg wetsuit:  http://vimeo.com/9348526

http://www.snuggwetsuits.co.uk/

And: One of Tom P Stones friends surfing on an Hawaiian wood surfboard, the BBC have done a TV program about traditional Hawaiian surfboards and culture and what surfing means to them. I can't wait.

From Joel Smith: The London Telegraph - India: Devoted to surf http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/7343968/India-Devoted-to-surf.html

From Michael Kew: Australian shark attacks rise, US fall: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10629396&ref=rss

From Snake: The National Surf Schools and Instructors Association  will hold an instructor certification class in Long Beach, NY May 22/23.  Information about the NSSIA and requirements for course enrollment can be found on the organization's web site http://www.nssia.org/

From Joel Smith: Severn surfers ride once-a-decade tidal wave/tidal bore: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7046489.ece

From Rick Chatillon:  A documentary coming spring 2010. A story of the early days in Newport Beach... It has been accepted in the Newport Beach Film Festival, dates of preview soon to be released. http://www.livingitforeverthemovie.com/

From Gary Lynch: Cruise travelers tell of deadly waves off Spain http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/03/03/international/i095422S55.DTL&tsp=1

Also: http://www.texassurf.net/

(inexpensive ads starting as low as $10/month)

From Tye Johnson: If You Can Stand Up, Who Cares if Surf's Up? (New York Times article): http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/travel/escapes/05paddleboard.html?emc=eta1

From Jeremy Oxenden/Tim Wilson: Jim Phillips hot curl:

and a modern hot curl:

From David Pu'u: "I never do shows." He's let this one get by him: In Camarillo Friday March 12  http://www.pistudioprint.com/2010/03/grand-opening-event-david-puu-and-pi/

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

41 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh

Tuesday, March 02, 2010

missing surfers Pichilemu followup..... the are OK....

From Capt. Gene: Colin just emailed from Pichilemu: all is well, no worries. Colin and Gavin are fine. Thank you everyone. Cheers.... From David Rohde: only 6 dead in pichilemu, seems to be all chileans .they have water and food but no power or cells - destruction minimal -- all earlier reports overblown concerning pichilemu

Monday, March 01, 2010

surf blurb addendum.... missing surfers in Chile

From Craig Hibbard:

Not sure if this is something that you want to drop into Surf Blurb, however we have two local surfers missing in Chile.  They have not been heard of since the earthquake.  They were on a surf trip to Pichilemu. Colin McNany is from Palos Verdes.    Not sure where Gavin Comstock is from.

Here is Colin's info:

Missing: Colin McNany

Age: 25

White male blonde hair

Birth Date: March 22 1984

US Passport #: I do not have.

Date into Santiago was Feb 24 2010

American Airlines via Miami USA

Final destination in Chile was Pichilemu.  Was on surf trip with Gavin Comstock both USA citizens.  Both are missing and not accounted for as of March 1, 2010.

Last contact from Colin was to his girlfriend in US was Feb 26 approx 6:40PST via GMAIL

Target date out of Chile was March 16 2010 on American Airlines

His parents are very concerned for his well being. 

Contact for Colin's father is: Capt. Gene McNany 310-994-0324, should someone have information or contacts in Chile.

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Aloha,

From Julie Cox/Sharon Marshall/Gary Lynch/Tom Craig/Tony Banzuelo: There will be a paddle out for Mike Marshall honoring him/his dedication and life of surfing, April 8th at Blackies, 9am. From there, you're invited to head over to the OCC gallery with the Harbour crew with the Harbour Chronicals exhibit as the backdrop in a celebration of Mikes life.

Found a Tribute to Mike here: http://cooperfishcalendar.com/blog/?p=946

From Barry Haun: Want a ticket to Namotu on a fully booked trip from someone who needs to give up their seat? The trip is scheduled for March 4-13. email Barry: barry@surfingheritage.org

Also from Barry: Saturday, March 6th Plein Aire artist Kevin Short will be giving an in-store painting demonstration from 1-4PM and then the opening reception of "DOC PORTO" the new work of JOHN CULQUI · 6-9pm at The Surfing Heritage Gallery South Coast Plaza West (formerly Crystal Court) 3333 Bear St., ste 303, Costa Mesa, CA 92626 714.800.1654 Exhibit Dates · March 6 - March 28, 2010 Closing Reception & Live Painting with the Artist · Sunday, March 28th, 1-4PM  see first hand the creation of Surfing Heritage's exclusive limited-edition print by John Culqui http://www.surfingheritage.org/

From Phil:

Celebrate fond memories of a sport and special time in Texas surfing history at the surf reunion. With sand and saltwater deeply imbedded in our spirit we will gather to honor and celebrate the sport of surfing in the Coastal Bend between 1962-1972.  The format will once again follow the event similar schedule of the '84, '90, '95 & 2002 surf reunions.

On Friday night the 23rd from 6-10pm a private gathering in downtown Corpus Christi at the Surf Museum . Appetizers available.  E xperienced the wonderful memories preserved by Brad Lomax at the Surf Museum.

On Saturday the 24th  on the beach in Port Aransas . The surf event will begin at 8:00am until around 5:00pm. Since Pat Magee has sold his shop, and sold all his old boards to Brad Lomax, it will be up to you to provide an appropriate era surfboard for the surfing event. Size may not matter, but style still does! Water & fruit juice drinks will be available on the beach while supplies last.

The awards banquet will be held Sat. night in Port Aransas at the  Community Center  on Alister St. in the heart of beautiful old downtown. Lunch will be served between 11:30am-1:30pm . Doors open at 6:00pm. Dinner  between 6:30-8:30pm only !  Following announcements and awards for the surf contest, music from 9-11:30pm with dancing at your pleasure. Feel free to invite your parents or parental figures who supported your involvement in surfing throughout the years. Numerous door prizes awarded thru the night.

Event fee: $60 per person. No alcoholic beverages sold or available at banquet. BYOB Directions & additional information: email surfbad@aol.com or call ( 361) 549-6617 For lodging information in Port Aransas contact: Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce ( 800) 452-6278

From Eric: some pics of Kevin Hall:

From Steve Colling/Eric: re: Kevin Hall's untimely passing. We are accepting check donations to the Hall family. We ask that they make checks payable to Robyn Hall and send them to her at: 1476 Parkhurst St. Simi Valley, CA 93065

Thank you all so much, he will be truly missed in the surfing community.

Misplaced who this was from:

From Craig Hippard and Mahina ( Vice President, Hui O He'e Nalu): re:Illegal Shark Feeding... http://www.supsurfmag.com/events-stand-up-paddle/announcements/rally-against-illegal-shark-feeding-on-the-north-shore-of-o%27ahu-hui-o-he%27e-nalu-asks-for-your-kokua-20100216902/

URGENT! Please call/email these elected officials immediately to let them know you want a hearing as soon as possible to address the on-going illegal shark feeding by shark tour operations on the North Shore of O'ahu.
Let Senator Hee and Senator Tokuda know you want them to increase the fines, penalties and enforcement of the current law.  They are the chairs of the water, land, agricultureand hawaiian affairs committee (WTL) and the ones who schedule the hearing for their committee. Senator Clayton Hee.586-7330 senhee@Capitol.hawaii.gov Jill Tokuda: sentokuda@Capitol.hawaii.gov  587-7215 The Representative side for this Bill is the WLO committee, with Ken Ito, Chair & Sharon Har, Vice Chair/she would be the one to contact.  Her phone is 586.8500, email  rephar@capitolhawaii.gov
The same Bill on the Senate side, the Text for SB 2655, a Bill for an act, Section 1--(C) states that the DLNR resources (they are supporting it).  No. 2 - of this bill, states:  Shall exempt any shark tours operating on the North Shore of Oahu prior to July 1, 2010.  This was introduced by Robert Bunda & Clayton Hee.

From Gary Lynch: Jeff Chamberlain says:  The time has come to sell my custom 15' Boston Whaler skiff. This has been like a part of the family to me , but a new boat is on the way and the time has come to offer this boat for sale. Jeff Chamberlain jeffch@charter.net 805.528.9611 cell 805.903.3944 This is a perfect two person boat, though I often take three in it. The custom board rack in the stern can hold a variety of boards, and is well built and sturdy .

From Mike Tabler: "The vindication of the Trimiran": Groupama3 is chasing the around the world record: heading for Cape Horn on its 28th day: http://www.cammas-groupama.com/en/

From Gary Lynch: Todos is on...(today:Sunday).... http://www.todossantosevent.com/

From Drew Kampion: From Josh Berry at Save The Waves:  the best way to get help to the rural Chilean coast devastated by the earthquake:
http://www.savethewaves.org/news/view/111

New books in: copies of the paperback Hynson book and Mike Doyle's Hardcover Signed Limited Morning Glass: http://www.surfbooks.com/booksforsale.htm

Mike Hynson. Transcendental Memories of a Surf Rebel. Oversized oblong paperback. The long awaited book by Endless Summer surfer, Mike Hynson. 290 pages. $50.

Mike Doyle with Steve Sorensen. Morning Glass. Cloth spine hardcover. Limited to 1000 copies. SIGNED and Numbered. 2004. 247 pages. New. $65.

Aloha, joe t. My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

20 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh
Skateboard book, lots of surf books, Blake 1922-32 Limited Ed.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Aloha,

From Eric Sandoval:  Kevin Hall passed away on Thursday, I wanted to let the other parties involved with his book and Kevin's friends know about his unfortunate passing. There will be a memorial service this Tuesday in Simi Valley, please contact Robin Hall at 805.522.0203

From the Hall Family: It is with great sadness that we announce the unexpected passing of Kevin Hall.   B orn in June 8, 1962  Kevin had an “extreme” passion for adventure. He participated in anything that gave him an adrenalin rush such as parasailing, sky diving, surfing, and scuba diving. He loved the ocean and all things associated with the ocean. He had a boat in Channel Islands Harbor that he lived on for a couple years. He was an avid beach camper along the Ventura Coast. He enjoyed travelling to Hawaii and San Jose del Cabo, Mexico to enjoy the surfing, the family time, and of course the scallop tacos at Rossa's Taqueria.  He amassed an extensive surf wax collection and was a contributor to the book, “Surfboard Wax; A History” by Jefferson “Zuma Jay” Wagner.

He held many jobs over his varied life: scuba diving instructor, certified rescue diver, professional urchin diver, oil rig worker (off the coast of Santa Barbara), diver at Marine World in the shark tank and an air flight controller for Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays. He was very talented in various construction trades, and ultimately settled into plumbing and started his own successful plumbing company of 18 years, Hall Plumbing, Inc.

Please join us in a celebration of Kevin's life and memorial service, which will be held at 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at Centerpoint Church located at 2369 Royal Avenue in Simi Valley, California 93065. A reception will follow at Kevin and Robyn's home. For further information, please contact Robyn at 522-0203. 

From Buck Labadie: Well-known South Bay surfer and Shaper Bob Moore (Jr) died in his sleep last week at his home in San Pedro. Bob shaped for numerous shops including: Bing, Greg Noll, Velzy, Plastic Fantastic, ET, Stickman,  El Paipo. Won the 1961 Huntington Beach Junior contest  (Severson & Grannis Photos). His father was well-known Robert Moore Sr. Life Guard, L.A. County.
Nice mention of Bob's work by Johnny Fain on page 100 of Greg Noll's "The Art of the Surfboard".
Services will be in the So. Bay in a few weeks.

From Gary Lynch/Tom Craig: Richard Delvy - One of the original Belairs has passed on. He " played drums on our hit, Mr. Moto, before moving on in mid-62 to form the Challengers band and make a career for himself in the music publishing and record production arenas. I had the privilege of working closely with him on many of his projects, including the LPs, Sidewalk Surfing (The Good Guys) and Surfbeat Volume 2 (The Surfriders)." Paul Johnson (SURFARIS / DUO-TONES)
http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/12/richard-delvy-dead/

Mavericks -

From Allen Kukel:  http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/13/watchers-hurt-by-rogue-waves-at-ca-surfing-contest/

From Gary Lynch: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/13/BATA1C1AAA.DTL&tsp=1

From Jeremy Oxenden: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250886/Watchers-hurt-rogue-waves-US-surfing-contest.html

From Larry Souza: Photos:  http://www.maverickssurf.com/buzz/photos23.php Webcast: http://maverickssurf.com/contest/see/webcast.php

From Tom Laura: Los Desperados Group Art Show at Shelter Surf Shop in Long Beach, CA Saturday, March 06, 2010

From John Roskoski: Harbour Chronicles book will be coming out soon... http://www.shopharboursurf.com/

From Craig Hibbard: A shade late to get there but.... Larry Bertleman was at CHPSurf and Skate over the weekend: www.chpsurfandskate.com

From Jose V. Glez: His latest cover of Radical Surf:

From Drew Kampion/Fred Hemmings: Fred's "Hawaii Surfing Reserve Bill" parallels the path blazed by Australia's National Surfing Reserves program, and will in turn, I hope, template other efforts in surfing communities around the world to dedicate, enshrine, and protect our surfing beaches, everywhere. (Testimony was taken Friday) http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2010/hearingnotices/HEARING_EDT-WTL_02-19-10_.HTM

Also from Drew: Rick Rietveld fin on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200441579637  donated by Rick to aid Surfrider Foundation to save Gaviota from being developed destroying the beautiful, natural habitat. www.RietveldArt.com

From Mike Salisbury: Hale'iwa - H. Miura Store in business since 1912, closes its doors. Sisters sew their last palaka shorts. " Eddie Aikau was wearing Miura Store surfing shorts when he died on a rescue mission on his surfboard. Joey Cabell's measurements are in one of the handwritten books. The same with Tiger Espera and Reno Abellira. The measuring books go all the way back to Greg Noll, which is ancient in surfing terms." http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Dec/05/ln/FP512050322.html

Also from Mike Salisbury: His latest blog entry ... Tyra Banks via Dick Dale http://www.onehellofaneye.com/2010/02/13/254/ which includes an early photo of Mike in La Jolla by Roy Porello:

And from Mike/Tim: Tim Bessell: You are invited to the OPENING of my ''ONe MaN sHOw'' next Friday Night. Feb 26th at "The Robin's Nest Gallery'' from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. On the corner of Nautilus St. and 6905 La Jolla Blvd. We will be showing my latest work including "Fully Loaded", ''Girl with Rose'' and much much more.

From Joel Smith: Lots of dolphin surfing photos by Photographer Greg Huglin on the south coast of South Africa. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251711/Every-dolphins-gone-surfin-Stunning-pictures-hundreds-glide-monster-waves.html#ixzz0g6GLgo4C

From David Pu'u: His blog on Mavericks this time: http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?p=2367

From Gary Lynch: Tahiti: Surf's up at IMAX at California Science Center: http://travel.latimes.com/daily-deal-blog/index.php/tahiti-movie-surfs-u-6426/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DailyDealsLosAngelesTimesTravel+%28Daily+Travel+%26+Deal+Blog%29 From Tara Torburn:

From Donna G.: New site: for buying and selling boards: surf, skate, snow, wake, body, kite boards:  http://www.boardjoy.com/

From Jeremy Oxenden/Cliff Leclerq: Waves in the South of France/Cannes on Friday:

From Ron Croci: His Bali Water Color Exhibit: http://www.clubofthewaves.com/surf_culture_bali.php

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

20 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh
Surfer Magazines (1965-66), Surfer's Journals Volume 1 and 2, Corky signed book, and more.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Aloha,

From Mark Cunningham: Hawaii Collectors Expo is @ Blaisdell Feb. 19,20,21 - Mark will have a booth for the weekend to "lighten my load of books , mags, collectibles and J. Severson & P.Edwards aloha shirts. I'll be at booth #510, Recycled Surf Hawaii." http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/atq/1554455802.html

From Jens:  Please remember to mention in surf blurb that I am looking for Pier Pressure #1 by Corky Carroll. jensenb002@hawaii.rr.com

 Since "Everybody is looking for .. .>) "..... I'm looking for a girl named Alison (Alyson, Allison) who surfs Old Man's at San Onofre. If you know, her, please ask her to contact me. jtabler@san.rr.com  Thanks!

From Steve Wilkings: Steve mentioned the photo watermarking service used by Surfing Heritage Foundation.... I asked for the website:  www.digimarc.com Sounds very cool..... they imbed the watermark and spider the web looking for Cheaters, Thieves, and Miscreants! Okay , yes, non-criminals can view usage rights for images, how to contact/purchase photos/artwork.

From Don Fleming: Bought a KOOK BOX at Auction Yesterday in  PRESCOTT ARIZONA. NO NAME VISIBLE. ITS COVERED WITH FIBERGLASS.

From Bart Tucker: Some photos from Newport Pier during recent El Nino swells.

From Stuart Coleman: The Rise Above Plastics Coalition will be holding a press conference and rally at the Hawaii State Capitol's Rotunda on Wed., Feb. 10, from 12:00 - 1:00. www.riseaboveplastics.org www.surfrider.org/oahu

Also from Stuart: The Surfrider Foundation Oahu Chapter will host two simultaneous cleanups, one at the park on Sand Island and one at Malaekahana State Park., on Sat. morning, 2/13/10, from 9:00 am – 11:30 pm. Surfrider is partnering with the Kokua Foundation and invites volunteers to participate in one of their “Love Your Beach” cleanups on the eve of Valentine's Day.  Volunteers are asked to bring old plastic bags, sunscreen and reusable water bottles.

From Mike Jipp in the Great Northwest: i see that billabong has oregon for that wave we have here.   this year was not all that clean and big.   also if you only new the real story behind this whole mess of the reef.   the real name of the place is called tackle busting reef .  the wave is off a place called canyons state park so its not even in the nelscott area.  the wave was also founded and surfed by others before the person that claims to have found it really didn't.   he won't even let the best local surfers that tow it all the time in his stupid contest.   just needed to throw in my 2 cents

From Jerry Derloshon: Pics from Pepperdine U's Girls in the Curl event Feb. 6:

Honoree Linda Benson and Dean of Libraries Mark Roosa :

Heather Hudson Crummer, maker of vid The Women and the Waves: which showed at the Ventura Film Festival (trailer here) http://venturafilmfestival.org/the-women-and-the-waves.html

Noted this site on the way by: SurfVideo.com..... http://www.surfvideo.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=894

Denny Aaberg providing music:

From Art Brewer: His surf photography workshop at the Annenberg Space for Photography on Feb. 27 is has a few spots left.  http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/events/workshops.asp

From Dick Saar: Halifax surf etiquette ends up in court: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2010/01/22/ns-surfing-sue.html#socialcomments%23ixzz0fAaMdRDg

Also from Dick: Top World Surfers in No. Cal for big wave event: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_big_wave_contest

From Sandy Hall: Designated reserves help save our surf: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201002100200/COLUMNISTS06/2100368

From Gary Lynch:

From David Pu'u: K38 Water Safety, headed up by internationally renowned Shawn Alladio, a National Safe Boating Council Instructor and AWA H2O Responder, is heading to Half Moon Bay California. The prestigious big wave paddle surfing event 'Mavericks' has been given the 'green light' for a contest day this Saturday off the Pillar Point.

From Jeremy Oxenden: Big Wave Downing Boards on Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Classic-Big-Wave-Long-Boards-shaped-by-George-Downing_W0QQitemZ300394207079QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item45f0e3d767

Aloha,

joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

20 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh
Surfer (1980), Surfing Action Around the World (1968-9), Surfing (2007 Swimsuit/DVD issues).

Monday, February 08, 2010

Aloha,
From Barry Haun: Sad news: Renown surfer and shaper Mike "Red" Marshall passed away Sat.

"Dano; Mike Marshall, Walter Viszolay" (from http://www.nbsurfers.com/ )

Harbour cheaters shaped by Mike and ridden by Gary Chapman

From Gary Lynch: Hapa - Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG6MJ4RJiOY&feature=PlayList&p=5EED8C72E77930CE&index=1

From Dick Saar: Newport Beach in the 50's60's....cool vid and surfers' talk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOJO8z6RdHo

The next Sacred Craft Show will be Saturday/Sunday April 10-11 in Ventura ... There will be 'antiques roadshow' style appraisals happening Sat. - A San Diego area contingent will include Keith Eshelman, Boyd Scofield, and Allen Kukel and myself .... Renny Yater will be the honored shaper. http://www.surfboardshow.com/

From Gary Sahagen: The Twenty-Third Annual HB Longboard Crew Pier Paddle will be held on February 13, 2010 at 10am. The race has been postponed by the organizers due to safety concerns. The high winds, rain and tornado warnings have resulted in a decision to hold the race next Saturday. http://www.hblongboardcrew.org/

Also from Gary: Oregon Massive Wave Enters Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards: http://salem-news.com/articles/february022010/wave_nom_tk.php

Picture From John Elwell/The John Elwell Collection... Ron Drummond at Dana:

the back of the card with a quote by Willard Bascom, author of Waves and Beaches:

From John Elwell: Re: the Unforgettable Ron Drummond:

It was one of those big winter days that are so rare at the Tijuana
Sloughs in 1951. Dempsey Holder and a number of top surfers showed up
and a new not well known surfer in our parts, and unforgettable Ron Drummond. I was there and surfed that day. The waves were very big and any one who has seen Ron Drummond would have never forgotten him. He is most likely the tallest surfer ever in the world as a well muscled giant of a man who was perhaps at
least 7 foot tall, in a canoe! I have thought about this and it was probably because a surf board not large enough for him to surf existed.

When it gets big at the TJ Sloughs it breaks out on several locations on
this ancient river mouth of piles of sumerged large cobble stones from
glacial ages forming a reef or shoal that reaches out for a distance
longer than a mile. Beyond the surfing reef it continues where kelp
attaches itself forming large beds in deeper water..

The Outside Reef, a mile out is frequently the surfed area, although
The Mystery Breaks, another half mile out only breaks infrequently in
the largest sets at low tide. Dempsey called this "The Bone Yard
"because you could not get a line up and most likely would get trashed
inside by giant soup 20 feet high. This day Ron Drummond went out there
in The Bone Yard and disappeared in the deep troughs of waves. I would
see him again almost two hours later being battered like a tiny cork by
the soup in his canoe totally awash. He had a dumbfounded look on his
face with wide eyes that had seen terror and near death.

He remarked, " I have been surfing all around the world and never have
seen waves so big and so far out. I took off down this mountain and
picked up speed like freight train at full throttle roaring into a black hole tunnel!" His estimate noted the waves were 30 to 40 feet high and what he went through is
unimaginable to surfers and non surfers alike.

I would see Ron a few more times in my life, once in his territory
around Dana Point and some reunions. Truly an impressive dedicated
waterman never to be forgotten, especially this day he vividly recalled.

Also from John: Anna (Trent) Moore was trusted with all of Bud Browne's vintage film archives after his death and has edited unseen footage into a new
production to be shown at the La Paloma theater on Saturday, February
20th at 6:30 and 9:00 PM in Encinitas. Many of Bud's and Buzzy's old
friends will be there. A WAKE UNTO THE BLUE http://www.lapalomatheatre.com/

From Bob Feigel: His tribute to Jerry Whitesides is on his site: http://www.surfwriter.net/jerry_whitesides_tribute.htm Jerry was one of Malibu Surfing Association's founders.

"Go deep and never lose the joy of your sinuses draining at the most inconvenient times." - JW

From Jeremy Oxenden: http://www.emerald-vision.com website of photographer George Karbus. One of his pics at Lahinch Ireland.

From Michael Blum:

From David Pu'u: The link (below) is to a blog entry on a rescue event that took place on the freeway in OC awhile back. Shawn Alladio affected the rescue. The victim has survived and is doing well and has recently just completed what we think may be the last of his skin grafts.

Shawn is getting an award for heroism today from the OC Fire Authority. Pretty rare for a civilian to get one of these. It may be a first. I know she hates this sort of thing (I won't attend as a result of that) but it is a remarkable story involving someone who serves our community of surfers. Thought that you guys may want a heads up.

Shawn and I are just back from training the USCG STAN team in Oregon. It is comprised of five Advanced Rescue Swimmers, who are the lead standardization test officers and now front a new program that will serve as the foundation for PWC use by the USCG. That course and what it says, is going to go a long way in establishing credibility and standards for PWC ops.

http://www.davidpuu.com/blog/?tag=leader

From Stuart Coleman: The Rise Above Plastics Coalition will be holding a press conference and rally at the Hawaii State Capitol’s Rotunda on Wed., Feb. 10, from 12:00 - 1:00. The Surfrider Foundation is partnering with the Sierra Club, Styrophobia and other organizations to educate people about the dangers of plastic marine debris and the proliferation of single-use plastics (SUP) like bags and bottles in our environment. http://www.surfrider.org/oahu/ http://www.riseaboveplastics.org/

From Cary Weiss: Longboard Collectors' Club met at SAFARI SURF & SPORT 20936 Devonshire Street, Chatsworth, Ca. Jan 31 http://www.longboardcollectorclub.com/ Next meet: March 27, Saturday – HUNTINGTON BEACHCRUISER Buy Sell Swap From Dawn Until 4:00 P.M. At The Foot of The Huntington Beach Pier

Aloha,

joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/
40 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh
Surfing Illustrated, SJs, Surfer.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Aloha,

The Mike Hynson paperback is out. I have copies: http://www.surfbooks.com/booksforsale.htm

From Jerry Derloshon:

http://library.pepperdine.edu/events/?trumbaEmbed=eventid%3D86018445%26view%3Devent%26-childview%3D

From Dick Saar: Looks a lot like Rincon. Who would guess these were taken on Vancouver Island, B.C.? A friend of mine up sent these to me. He said it's very uncrowded, I wonder why? BRRRR.....

Ran into this one recently: http://surfing.wikia.com/wiki/Surferpedia

From Spencer Croul: I just read a good book with some surfing adventures in it but it's not a surf book. It's called Crazy for the Storm a memoir of survival – non fiction by Norman Ollestad.

On his first board.

On his dad's back, Topanga Beach, 1968.

From Gary Lynch: one of 5 bridges fallen down in Baja during recent 'weather' Caida del Puente El Rosario, Baja California: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmXv6wijIg8&feature=player_embedded

From Jeremy Oxenden: Pic that was on Magic Sea Weed:

How can one not think of Ron Drummond when seeing this? 

Gary Lynch points out : the photo of Drummond was taken by Tom Blake with Tom's water camera and was taken at Capo Pier area.

While looking, I stumbled on this: Ron was out in his canoe trying to ride 30 - 40 foot waves outside from Tijuana Sloughs: http://www.jstor.org/pss/1498346

Also from Jeremy: fun Aussie "Tools for Surfers" ads for Ryobi: http://www.surfingstoke.com/misc/tools-for-surfers/

Aloha,

joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

40 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh
Surfing Illustrated, SJs, Surfer.

Addendum Tuesday Jan 26

Pepperdine University "Girls in the Curl" Surf Photo contest deadline Jan 31.

http://library.pepperdine.edu/news/index.php/2010/01/girlsinthecurlphotocontest/

Amateur photographers are encouraged to submit hi-res photos reflecting ocean, coastal, or surfing themes. Three prizes will be awarded:

Themes: (a) the essence and spirit of surfing, (b) coastal lifestyles, (c) women in surfing, or (d) coastal scenery.

Photos: All photos will be reviewed and the top 20 finalists will be printed, framed and placed on display during the Girls in the Curl event February 6th.

Judging: Surf photographer, publisher and author, Guy Motil will judge and award prizes for the top three. Motil will consider: how well the image fits the theme; the general aesthetic of the image; the emotional response of viewers; and the photographer's overall skill and/or artistic talent.

Prizes: 1st Place – $250         2nd Place – $150        3rd Place – $50

Auction: Each of the top 20 photos on display will be auctioned to raise money for the Malibu Historical Collection at the Pepperdine University Library.

Deadline : All submissions must be posted by January 31, 2010 .

Rules of Submission: Each submission must include the name of the artist, title of the photo, date of the photo (within last year), and email contact information for the artist.  Only one submission is allowed from each artist.  Submission secures rights for image reproduction by Pepperdine University Libraries for fundraising resale purposes only.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Aloha,

From Will at the Surf Gallery and others: Tues. at Jed Noll's in San Clem:

From Steve Collins: Next Longboard Collector's meet is Jan 31 in Chatsworth, Sunday -- SAFARI SURF & SPORT 20936 Devonshire Street, Chatsworth, Ca. 91311 Buy Sell Swap From Dawn Until 2:00 P.M. For more info, call shop owner Randy Beck at 818-349-9283 Please note that this is not on a Saturday event.
It is taking place on Sunday ! Sunday ! Sunday ! http://www.longboardcollectorclub.com

From Mark Cunningham: Phil Jarratt's Back Beach Noosa site: http://www.backbeach.net.au/index.php

From Phil's site:

From Gary Sahagen: The Twenty-Third Annual HB Longboard Crew Pier Paddle will be held on February 6, 2010 at 10am. ** This change from Sunday to Saturday is the first time in the long history of the Pier Paddle Race that it will not happen on a Sunday. The reason for the change was to better align with the Surf City USA® Marathon which has become one of the Longboard Crew's partners in this event. The change will allow marathon runners to compete in both running and paddling. Special awards are planned for any participants who accomplish that feat. For further information and to inquire about loaner boards please email info@hblongboardcrew.org

The race is open to all ages with one open division. First through sixth place finishers will be awarded. All participants should use a standard surfboard for the race. No racing type paddle boards will be allowed. Boards need to be less than twelve feet as a maximum. The race starts at 10am sharp. Entries will be accepted on a first come-first served basis to 100 maximum starting at 9am on the beach. The Huntington Beach Longboard Crew suggests a $5.00 donation unless your club dues are paid up for 2010.

The next day is February 7, 2010 which is Superbowl Sunday and the Surf City USA® Marathon which will start at 6:30am.  The after-party for the marathon will start early at the beer garden which will be hosted by the Huntington Beach Longboard Crew .

From Mike Salisbury: His latest blog entry: meeting George Harrison and taking pics of his Crackerbox Palace at Henley on Thames, England, and for an album cover. http://www.onehellofaneye.com

Here are Mike and George, probably taken by Mike's son Chris - the palace in the background.

I have a couple copies of the Salisbury designed Brazil magazine Alma Surf. 2004 International Surf Culture Expo in Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2004. Special issue on this event designed by Mike Salisbury. In Portuguese and English. New. $20 plus shipping.

From Cary Weiss:   1961 Greg Noll Surfboard. ($7500) Double small Greg Noll Camera Man Logo (very rare, about the only surfbaord I have seen with this logo set up) surrounded by the atomic logo. Ther surfboard is 9'4. Contact Denny Moore Tel:  310 456 8060 mail@mdgla.com  for more scans/details.

Also has this one, same price:

From Craig Hibbard: http://www.chpsurfandskate.com/  They have Leon Hendrix artwork (Jimi's son) and Larry Bertelmann surfboards. Larry will be at the shop in person at a future date. http://www.bertlemann.com/ CHP Surf & Skate 1613 South Pacific Coast Highway Redondo Beach CA 90277 310.540.1214 chpinfo@chpsurfandskate.com

Aloha,

joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

40 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh
Surfing Illustrated, SJs, Surfer.

joseph tabler books
5650 riley st
san diego ca 92110 usa
www.surfbooks.com

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Aloha, From Drew Kampion: ... from Judy Burlington , a cofounder of Pipeline To A Cure .  They have discovered that surfing SIGNIFICANTLY extends the l ives of kids with Cystic Fibrosis ... maybe, like, double!  This is worth a read.   Emily Haager is an extraordinary representative – for surfing and for The Cure . http://www.pipelinetoacure.com/

http://www.pipelinetoacure.com/video-02.php

Email ggreen@cff.org  to get involved next year.

From Sean Davey: His site: http://seandavey.com/wordpress/   His book on King Island, Tasmania is only available On Demand..... that's why I don't have copies. He sent me a copy. Very nice little book, plenty of surfing, of course. Available in paperback and hardcover here: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/266652

I do have a copy of his previous book out of Brazil (for $20 to the first one to say something about it...not presently on my site):

From Dick Saar:  Surfer Blood: 'Floating Vibes' surf music:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122365508&sc=emaf

From Yours Truly:

From Skipper Funderburg:  Author of Surfing on the Cape Fear Coast. He recently discovered a 1907 surfing photo ( carolinabeach.net   ) postcard view of people surf bathing on the ocean side of the Sea Shore Hotel including a surfer on a Hawaiian styled body board on Wrightsville Beach . (Slides from Fales collection: http://wwwtmpapps.nhcgov.com/lib/history/fales/index.htm  )

1907, 1909 & 1913 postcards all use the same popular photograph. Crop and blowup:

Another from the collection:

This one reminds me of my belief that bodysurfing and boat surfing/canoeing etc. have likely been going on since the beginning of time or thereabouts and in many places...about the time humans crawled up the beach from the sea. Maybe they didn't exactly crawl. ( Riding the waves may be an inherited, deeply instinctual activity! ) From Joel Smith: Dolphins surfing at JBay: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWauuX_1KH8&feature=related

From Jeremy Oxenden: Lake Superior photo by Nike Killion, http://www.nosaltsurf.com

Aloha,

joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

joseph tabler books
5650 riley st
san diego ca 92110 usa
www.surfbooks.com

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Aloha,

From Debbie Aldrich: Reid Inouye is forecasting extra huge waves sometime this winter due to the El Nino. Bigger than '69, 75'-76' or 84. "I've been reading the maps and looking at charts for the last 10 years and got a pretty good read on what's coming. The last two big swells this December I had right on the money." http://www.surfingyearbook.com/surfing-news.asp?Id_news=44695

From Dave Struve: This site features the Art of Shawn Griggs.  He's a northern California surfer, a great guy and an awesome painter.  His studio is at 425 Main St. in Ferndale, Humboldt County.  http://www.redeyelaboratories.com/redeye_laboratories/art/art.html

From Alan Derloshon: Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 11 a.m. to Sunset. Pepperdine University - Malibu, CA  Honoring Surf Legend Linda Benson for Her Lifetime Contribution to Surfing.

ATTEND surf film screenings—The Living Curl, Women and Waves, and a new compilation by renowned filmmaker David Ogle.
ENGAGE in conversation with surf legends and surf industry professionals.
ENJOY food from In-N-Out Burger and live music by Denny Aaberg.
ENTER to win raffle prizes and auction items, and compete for cash in the Girls in the Curl Photo.
Contest www.photobucket.com/girlsinthecurl
To learn more, call Amy Adams at (310) 506-6785.
University Libraries 24255 Pacific Coast Highway Malibu, CA 90263-4786 http://www.surfbooks.com/malibuGirlsintheCurl.pdf

From Cary Weiss: Next Longboard Collection's Club meet: January 31, Sunday -- SAFARI SURF & SPORT 20936 Devonshire Street, Chatsworth, Ca. 91311. Buy Sell Swap From Dawn Until 2:00 P.M. For more info, call shop owner Randy Beck at 818-349-9283 Please note that this is not on a Saturday event. It is taking place on Sunday ! Sunday ! Sunday ! Also from Cary: Pics from his Santa Monica gallery which will be open thru January 31 - 2665 MAIN ST. SUITE 200, SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA 90405  
TOTHEBU@EARTHLINK.NET  OR 310-717-7993

From Malibu Surfing Assoc.:  http://www.msaclassic.com/partnerships/

Aloha, joe t.

My site: http://www.surfbooks.com/

20 items now on Ebay: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZsurfbooks.comQQh   Including: Petersen's Surfing (1963-64), Surf Magazine (1977-78), Surfing Magazine (1965-66) and a few books.

Aloha,

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