Happy 2012

2011 has been a good year with a lot of changes in my life but 2012 is going to be much better!

Believe in your dreams and make it happen!

Wish you all an amazing 2012! Be happy, life your dreams, enjoy life!

Xmas gifts

Santa came by and deliverd some nice NPJ's!
Thanks UWL and Neal Purchase Jnr for these beautiful boards!

5'8 Squail for Miguel

6'6 Quartet for Chris

Magic Quiver Surfshop

5'10 Quartet

6'2 Cuttlefish

6'0 Pink Lady

Merry Christmas

Feliz Natal
Merry Christmas
Feliz Navidad
Joyeux Noëll
Frohe Weihnachten
God Jul
Hauskaa Joulua
メリークリスマス

one step closer

Been a crazy week so far and not a lot of time for blogging. But for a good cause.

 

Yesterday was a happy day, another giant step to make my dream come true. Signed the rental contract for the shop. Now Magic Quiver Surfshop have a home!

 

And later that day, the NPJ's finally arrived. Just unpacked mine and LOVED IT!!!! Will take photos when have time.

It's all coming together!!!!

more NPJ's on the way

Soon to arrive in Portugal, just in time for Christmas

Andrew Kidman

From movies, so music and surfboards, Andrew Kidman does it all well. Glass Love is probably my favorite movie and All at Sea is the number one CD on my playlist. Just miss one of his boards... but we never know! 

Andrew Kidman Innerviews on Korduroy.tv


Andrew Kidman - InnerViews from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

Forty Bonzer years

Drift Surfing just posted a great feature on the 40 years of the Bonzer. The article was an original idea of Portuguese photographer, Miguel Barreira, who also took the amazing photos that go with it.Miguel asked Malcolm to write down forty notable things, divided in four categories, to represent the forty years of the Bonzer.
The result is awesome, a genuine and personal view on the Bonzer and people involved.

You can read the feature HERE

The beautiful photos on the feature deserve a place of its own, so I'm posting them here so you can have a better view on them.

Great work Miguel!

Santander Surf Film Classic

This sixth edition, is dedicated to the Australian brothers Paul and John Witzig, so they will screen three wonderful and timeless classic Films of Paul "The Hot Generation" 1967, "Evolution" 1969 and"Sea of Joy", 1971.

Also on this edition, movies like Come Hell or High Water, Sight and Sound, Manufacturing Stoke, ThirtyThousand, Lost in the Ether and many many more.

I'm not fortunate to be around but if you are, you'll sure have a great time!

Sharing II

I was going to entitle this post Bucket Cunt, as it's says on the board, but some people might find it offensive, so I went the safe way. (google it if you don't know what it means!)

Like I wrote on a previous post, some customers go over the internet barrier and became friends. One of them is Lennart, a good friend from Sweden who recently returned to Portugal to share some waves and pick up another special board.
A while back he had told me about a Neal Purchase Jnr surfboard he had bought from another friend. The board was Neal's personal that his friend had bought directly from him on a trip to Australia.
Lennart brought the board with him to Portugal and in a gesture of true friendship, he left it with me so I could try it and keep it until he returns.
It's one of Neal's 2+1's but with curved channels and a nice story behind the shape.

In Neal own words:
"...was for myself, an experiment in curved channels
the initials are from the channel shapers Jim Pollard being the first known channel shaper
AB is for Allan Byrne
CS is for Col Smith
NP is my dad who was there doin' it too with AB
they learn't from Jim and then straightened them up to what we see now
AK is Andrew Kidman who put his input in with me when I shaped it
and yeah AK was joking about the bucket cunt at the time so ..."

Thanks for letting me keep it Lennart!

Today

When I started planning the shop I knew I had a long road ahead and a lot of obstacles to overcome. One after the other, I’ve been able to get them behind, sometimes easily, sometimes stressing out, but always happy to be working on something mine, something I’ve dreamed and worked for so long! 

With most of the clothes, wetsuits and surfboards ordered, all my attention now is on the shop project and bureaucracy. Portugal isn’t an easy country for those who want to work and create their own job. But, with time and patience (a lot of patience), it’s possible.

Today is a very important day for me and Magic Quiver Surfshop.  Another huge obstacle gets behind. It was one of the hardest decisions I had to make during this process and one that will influence my future and the success of the shop. For many reasons, I can’t tell you about it now, but soon you will know.

Now I’m going to surf with a few friends, try some boards and have fun, to release the pressure before the great moment.