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!

Salinas Longboard Festival 2011

The 10th edition of the Salinas Longboard Festival kicks off in just 10 days. And this year it's going to be even better with the organization hosting the first European edition of the Joel Tudor Vans Duct Tape, a very unique Longboard event.


This year I couldn't miss it. Going there to see great surfing, great surfboards, make some connections for my future shop, but most of all, to have fun and meet everybody, specially the crew from the Costasurf.com forum and all the Spanish surfers that follow Magic Quiver. See you soon guys!

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