For the last two years Alex Rowse has ridden only displacement hulls, except for the odd log on small days. In between being a director of A-Side Design and being a partner in the founding o the Kook magazine with his partner in crime Dan Crockett, he can be found cruising around Cornish beaches looking for waves with his quiver of hulls.
After being inspired by Tom Wegner’s hollow plywood alaia, dubbed the Tuna, Mark Roberts set about creating an alaia with his own unique board building method of wood laminated EPS foam. The plan was to create an alaia that paddled better and was more user friendly in slower breaking waves, which we often have here in the UK. Photos kindly donated by Dave Muir from the Sennen Surfing Centre
Minds in the Water documents Dave ‘Rasta’ Rastavich’s five-year journey from apathetic pro to respected ocean activist. The film was shown in Newquay on the 17th July as part of an evening to raise environmental awareness, that started with a vegetarian buffet at the always fresh and funky Cafe Irie, and finished with a charity auction at the Chy Bar.
Johnny Abegg is a free thinking film maker and former WQS journeyman, who likes to take an unconventional path through life.
Paulownia is arguably the best and currently the most popular wood for alaias and paipos, but here in Europe it’s difficult to source and expensive.
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This spring, Malcolm Campbell will be heading to Europe for an extensive shaping tour.
• Portugal, 13-22 May (contact Manila Surfboard Design at [email protected])
• France, 24 May – 3 June (contact UWL Surfboards at [email protected])
• England, late June through mid July (Guy Penwarden at [email protected])
If you’re in Newquay on a Saturday night and want to get your freak on, but don’t appreciate the rich diversity of stag party fancy dress that’s normally found around these parts, then you should get yourself over to On The Rocks for ‘Eclectica’.
Mark Sankey
Mark can't decide if he is a carpenter pretending to be a writer or a writer pretending to be a carpenter, but he loves to explore all aspects of the surfing coin through his ramblings. He likes nothing more than getting feral out on the open road.
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Forty Bonzer Years
Malcolm Campbell lists fourty notable things to represent the forty years of the Bonzer.
Mission: possible
Portugal explodes onto the global big wave circuit.
Thirty thousand
Richard James shoots a surf trip of 30,000 kilometres along the west cost of Africa.
All in Hand
When it comes to surfcraft there’s a newcomer making waves
A Few Smooth Lines
Chris Preston interviews Sydney's Matt Chojnacki
The train to Taghazout
Mat Arney attempts to hop aboard the slow train to Morocco, boardbag in tow.
Single Fin Serendipity
The unusual return of Bobby Owens' magic board.
Nature on display
Chris Burkard’s photographs are about the scenery being the star of the show.
Peterson Threebeard
All aboard the good ship Peterson Threebeard
Surfilmfestibal 2011
The surfilmfestibal festival attempts to connect the global surfing community
Walls of Perception
Ben Thouard joins Oxbow in search of adventure and virgin waves.
Upper Water Love
Rui Ribeiro talks with Renaud Cardinal about the past, present and future of UWL.
