A Tale of Two Steves...My buddy Caleb snapped this today... too classic, haha! Speaking of Steve, maybe somebody will see these and urge him t... | The Pacific Beach Surf Club / Cardiff Surf Club / Coalition of Surfing Clubs Tou...The custom trophy for the PBSC/CSC/TCC 8 Ball Bash pool tournament What can I say other than i had great time assemblin... | Meet "The Gimmick" - Vince|Vaughn Model...Board #4 is finally finished and in the water. This one got started when I was shaping and building the Viceroy in my ga... |
STOLEN: The Vr2(b)...March 27 I went for a surf with my nephew Quinn and I brought two boards along for him to try out. After being out for a... | Surf Photos by Jeff Kerridge...Jeff's photography is always so spot on. He's gotten more great photos of me surfing over the years than anyone else, an... | Skip Stories No. 1 - The Kickout...Surf around Pacific Beach long enough and your chances of surfing right next to one of the sport's all time legends will... |
Introducing "The Viceroy"..."A viceroy is an official who runs a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory."... | Late 60s Wilken Midlength Transition Era Vee Bottom Keyword Stuffer Surfboard wi...I recently got a request to send out a W.A.V.E.set fin box adapter to the owner of a Wilken midlength board from the lat... | Some Really Positive, Absolutely Killer Praise for the WAVEset Finbox Adapter...A little while back I got a random but very welcome email from a young lady named Lainey who is the proud owner of a lat... |
People Riding Surfboards with Vees in Their Bottoms...1968 Surfboards Hawaii 8'0" Vee Bottom It's going on five years since I bought this board at Bird's, and in that time I... | The WaveSet Fin Box Adapter Project...Old boards and old fins This story starts with a borrowed Gordon and Smith "Midget Farrelly Stringerless" that I took f... | This Changes Everything! (or at least that's the plan...)...My goals for this project are simple: create the proverbial "one board quiver" create the most exciting surfboard ev... |
The First Modern Surf Music?...or: EveryThing NoBody Ever Told You About AquAtic Bliss WithOut Slurring Here's a little piece I threw together after d... | Planning Out My First Hand Shaped Board...And so it begins... the planning for my first hand shaped surfing board: Building things has always been a big interest... | File this under "The Ones That Got Away"...The fiasco that was the sale of LambrettaWorks forced me to sell many of the boards that I had collected over the years,... |
More Fun with Surfboards and Lambrettas...Here's a nice snapshot from the old West Coast Lambretta Works days... Going through my old photo library I found this ... | Goodbye For Now, Sophia Tiare Bartlow...Like many other San Diegans I spent a gorgeous Sunday morning yesterday at the beach: surfing, hanging with friends, and... | One of My Favorite Lambrettas Ever...Of the hundreds of Lambrettas we restored over the years at West Coast Lambretta Works, this one stands out as an all ti... |
My One and Only Win (So Far)...Preface: My racing career was almost an afterthought in the bigger picture of my whole Lambretta experience. As owner of... | Product Testing: as Important as Good Grammar....Another blast from the past from back in the old West Coast Lambretta Works days A few random thoughts on this photo...... | Surfing with Rick Miller of Southern Culture on the Skids...I am so stoked that I ran into one of my musical heroes in PB yesterday afternoon: Rick Miller of Southern Culture on th... |
Some random cool images from the old Lambretta shop photo albums...Here's a nice smattering of Lambretta history for you, including a great shot of Matt Dawson's aluminum framed gas power... | All Roads Lead to Tourmaline...The date was July 12, 2012, and after many months of planning and preparation, it was time for my good buddy Glen and I ... | V is For Vee Bottoms!...Detailed notes are important The vee bottom boards masterfully ridden by Australian Bob McTavish in the mid '60s ... |
West Coast Lambretta Works Was Born in a Garage Way Out in the Boonies...These shots are from the really early days of my Lambretta adventure at the family garage in Lakeside, probably around 1... | Accidents Will Happen...While going through old footage in preparation for a historical ASRA documentary film I've started producing, I came acr... |
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