Height: 6'0", Dry Weight: 205 Fitness Level: OK Years Surfing: 25 Surfing Ability: Decent Surfboard Preference: High Performance Short Board Surfing Performance Preference: Power Surfing: Tom Carrol, Occy, Poncho, etc., Slater and of course the purity and fluidity of Tom Curren. Favorite Surf Video: "Off The Wall II" It's a classic video with Vintage Tom Curren surfing Rincon and Sandspits. I would watch his segments in the mirror so I could visualize his lines and turns as a goofy-foot. Travel Experience: Several Extensive Baja Trips Troughout the 90's. Many Hawaii Trips, one lasted over a 1½ years on the North Shore. Bali, Java, Lombok, and Sumbawa in 92 The Mentawai'sWavePark 05, and Most Recently Portugal in 2007.
EPS/Epoxy! Excellent Board. Strong and Lightweight. Extra rocker rear of the thruster fin. Good in fast, hollow surf.
Swallow Thruster
6'5" 11½ 18¾ 14 2 3/8
Glass On
Daily Rider - Good Balanced all around Board.
Round Square Thruster
6'6" 11½ 18¾ 13¼ 2 3/8
Glass On
Was Daily Rider (Sadly broken): Excellent Board w/extra rocker rear of the thruster fin. Good in fast, hollow surf.
Round Pin Thruster
6'8" 11 3/8 18¾12½ 2½
FCS
Medium Sized Board: Excellent performance in Indo
Pin Tail Thruster
7'0" 10 7/8 18¾12½ 2½
FCS
Looks Good but Unfortunately Never Waxed
Al Merrick
Swallow Thruster
6'4" 11¼ 18 5/8 14¼ 2 3/8
FCS
Was Daily Rider (buckled): Great board in surf up to a couple feet overhead.
Carl Hayward
Round Square Tail Thruster
6' 5½" 11 1/8 18¾13¾ 2 3/8
Glass On
This was a magic board for which I milked the life out of as long as I could. Extra rocker rear of the thruster fin for good tight carving turns in the pocket.
Round Pin Thruster
6' 5" 11 5/8 18 7/813 5/8 2 1/4
Glass On
Circa 1987. Good board for small fun surf. Low nose and tail rocker.
Round Square Thruster
6'5½" 11 1/8 18½13¾ 2 3/8
Glass On
Good Board in hollow surf. Narrow with extra nose and tail rocker.
Round Square Thruster
6'5" 11¾ 18¾ 13¾2 3/8
Glass On
Good all around daily board.
Wil Jobson
Winged Swallow Thruster
5'10" 12½ 20 15½ 2 3/4
Glass On Twin w/boxed thruster
Circa 1984. Great board in small surf which I will still ride. Unique boomerang thruster fin.
Magic (shaper?)
Swallow Tail Fun Board
7'5" 11¼ 18 5/8 14¼ 2 3/4
Glass On Twin w/boxed thruster
Broken but fixed. Rarely ride but this board works very well, maybe when I grow up.
Becker
Pin Tail Single Fin
6'8" 13½ 19¼ 11¾2¾
Glass On
Early seventies. Saved from trash. Fun board which I will still ride when I need to refine my lines.
Dave Sweet
Round Square Single Fin Long Board
9'8" Wide Wide Wide Thick
Glass On
Circa 1950's. Red wood stringer, wood block tail glassed on fiberglass fin. Flat Rocker and Heavy. Fun board when small.
SurfTrip Video: Mentawai's 2005
I was on the WavePark Island for 20 days and I only have 2 minutes of video to show. We scored so many hours good surf this video really doesn't do the WavePark Justice but it's all I have. I am riding a 6'8" Tim Stamps Rounded Pin Tail. It is an excellent surfboard but it was a bit too big for the waves. I had an insane 6'6" Tim Stamps Sqaure Tail that broke on the 3rd day and my backup board, 6'6" Kirk Bierke I had left over from my North
Shore days also buckled. To read more about Tim Stamps Surfboards: Check out EPS Epoxy Foam Surfboards article Boarding.net, My Stamps EPS/Epoxy Surfboard,Shaping An EPS Epoxy Surfboard by Tim Stamps
Photo Essay.Read the WavePark Mentawai SurfTrip Review and be Sure To Check out WavePark Mentawai on SurfTrip.com
SurfTrip Video:Surfing Pipeline, North Shore, Oahu Hawaii Feb. 15, 2007 Epic West Swell: I shot this video our Family Hawaii Vacation. It's a bad angle for Pipe but I had my kids with me, sorry. The Swell of The Winter • Big Wave Surfers • Reef McIntosh, Takayuki Wakita, Anthony Walsh, John John Florence, Nathan Fletcher, Liam McNamara, Dave Wassel, Shane Beschen and Others Charging.
