Thursday, February 28, 2008

a visit from RK and Casper




On their recent trip to Cali, Bubbie and Dutchie convinced the swift mover himself Richard Kenvin to come back the big apple. Dutchie and I got to surf with homeboy in what turned out to be a rad session. RK brought "Casper" which is a 5'1" Hydrodynamica test pilot modeled after a Bob Simmons Spoon. Watching what RK was doing with this board was mind boggling. We did a bit of board shuffling in the water and RK and Dutchie ended up surfing the peanut butter 5'5" Twin Keel that I shaped a while ago and I was pleased that they had nothing but great things to say about it. The 7'6" quad "Fish Simmons" that Josh Hall shaped for us ended up getting a couple battle wounds but other than that the session we had was the best I've had in a while. 
Tons O' Fun





Seen above: 5'1" Bob Simmons Replica shaped for Richard Kenvin by Joe Bauguess for the "Hydrodynamica Test Pilot Series"

9 comments:

  1. Sick Joey - She looks pretty new. Nothin' like a maiden voyage in the cold brown frown!

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  2. I think RK surfed it plent before in Calim but as far as NY goes it was the first time being dipped in the NY line up.

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  3. Cool site.

    That board looks like a super sooped up version of my cutdown longboard. So cool.

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  4. Dude! who do I have to bribe to try that thing??!!! hahaha

    cheers mate

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  5. I'm going to make one in the next couple months along with an alaia, a paipo, and a flex spoon velo style. When I'm done with my Simmons replica you can borrow it for as long as you want.

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  6. Hi,
    my local shaper is going to shape me one like that...
    do you know where we can find some info for the fins template?

    Ben

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  7. No idea mate.

    PS: Who is you local shaper?

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  8. I am from France,
    and my local shaper is UWL surfboards, he may shape it on his "Addiction" retro board label

    thanks

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  9. there is his Sander's blog address on this page
    http://glass-sandingjob.blogspot.com/

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