full quiver

In the interests of completeness, here's the full quiver as it stands. In the words of Rob Machado..." A good quiver should keep you regularly confused"

From the top pic:

Left side top to bottom

5'2 Gulfstream seapea
5'2 Tyler Warren Bar of soap
5'4 Mandala Superchunk
5'6 McCallum Mford
5'6 GS Keel fish
5'8 Mabile classic keel
6'10 Takayama Howard Special mini

Logs L-R

9'4 GS slimpig
9'4 If6was9 Mod log
9'4 Bing NR2
9'6 Classic Malibu Jai Lee noserider

In front : 9'4 Squire Dirk of doom

le petit quiver

Nicely light leaked Diana film shot of my travelling quiver for our summer trip to france. Pretty much all conditions covered by these choices and they all got wet several times.

L-R 9'4 GS slimpig, 7'0 Greco surf performance soft top, 5'6 GS keel fish, 4th Gear flyer surf mat

I hadn't ridden the mat for a long time but I had so much fun in the high tide shore break on it, it ended up being one of the trip highlights. The soft top is fun too. It's really my daughters board but it surfs really well considering.

groomer

Beach grooming, Les Dunes

truck

I'm a sucker for a good truck. Late 50's ford (i'm told) far from home.

first light

Part of the reason I've been time poor is because of this photo, or specifically the physical effort required to take it. First light breaking over Chamonix at the beginning of another big day of riding in the mountains climbing some of this years tour climbs. Sights like this made all the miles and hours of Devon hills worth it.

dwindling

I haven't written many posts of late. Life seems so busy and sometimes its difficult to find the time to obsess over the minutae of surfing. I think too that the blogosphere isn't as vibrant as it once was. our ever shortening attention span is drawn more and more to the quick hit and immediacy of tweets and Instagram captions. I guess i'm as guilty as anyone of this - my Instagram gets updated more regularly than here if i'm honest. Still its nice to ramble a little when I get the chance.

Autumn is shaping up to be a classic this year with some solid fun size swell and plenty of offshores. The water is still warm and it's been a chance to rotate quite a few boards through the van from my quiver. My favorite board changes with every few days. Honorable mentions to the 9'4 Slimpig, 5'4 superchunk and my Howard special egg.

Fun times......