This is an EVO3 Bat tail 6’6” that would suit anyone looking for some performance in a broad range of waves, combined with easy wave catching (without the duck diving difficulties of a wider nose). The spray, tint and artwork are all just classic late 70s. I think it’s beautiful.
Can't believe this board is still sitting in the shop in Trevone. Let’s hope this post helps this one find a happy home.
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Nice message from Nicky Stanley at Harbour Holidays about Poppy’s 5’8 Porpoise EVO3 with 7” Protect Safety fin…
“Its amazing, Poppy loves it :) thank you so much xxx”
Custom bonzer surfboard for Poppy with a beautiful resin tint and a lot of pen artwork to follow.
Finally finished this bonzer light vehicle… no pics of the light vehicle channels as you all know what they look like right! 7’6 x 23” x 3”…
Instead the focus is on the “impossible spray” admirably handled by Chris “Harry” Harris with direction from yours truly and Jake. The difficulty was masking the circle on a surface curving in all directions, and taping a colour-band and pinline on a curve and around a rail (instead of coming to an apex…) sounds simple? It wasn’t and sent one sprayer off to London questioning their chosen profession. We like to challenge, and Harry was up for it after a little encouragement. The results were great, and a happy customer.
Design, shaping & colour mixing by yours truly, artwork design by Jake, resin tint by Jason, sanding by Daz, spray by “Harry”, polish by Stevie “two-fins”.
Test pilot “Ant” putting his 6’4” EVO3 bonzer through its paces the other day, somewhere nearby… photograph by Adrian Steele.
Another picture of this board can be seen here …
Was surfing a great little break I call “Scalps” this morning, lovely right reef (don’t ask where) with a few friendly compadres… and one asked about the blunt diamond demo – so if you happen to be reading this post… here’s a pic. It’s just waiting for Daz to polish it. 6’8” x 21 1/8” x 2 5/8” It has a wide tail but foiled through so its easy to bury the rail and the double concave bonzer bottom keeps it really lively and fast. The fin set up is EVO3 with American Hardwood fins by yours truly. resin tint on the bottom. 6oz + 4oz deck with a 6oz bottom with a 4oz fin patch. This one was glassed by Jason. It also has a Go-Pro camera mount on the nose…
Seren’s board gets a step closer – having just tacked on her baby bonzer fins that I foiled out of American Ash… they will get glassed and hot coated on on Monday and the rear fin will probably be an FCS plug based Protect fin to start with and then a larger custom FCS EVO fin that I will make when the time comes…
Lucas’s EVO3 Blunt diamond was fixed and looks just as good as the day it was finished. Sadly he lost the fin on impact so not only did I have to redo all the artwork around the fin area but also had to make a new fin. Daz did an excellent job on the sanding/gloss and polish. Cheers.
Fins ready to go on the latest FreakFish…
Winds and swell were looking good, so…
checked the surf down in the Badlands but ended up at Porthmeor…(great peaks!)
then raced back to the factory to collect Jack's board ready for him to ride this afternoon… 6’10” EVO3 Blunt Diamond
My beautiful daughter’s first birthday is rapidly approaching (March) so I thought I’d mark the occasion not only with her first board, but a new model – The Porpoise. 5’4” x 19 1/4” x 2 1/4” bonzer with a Proteck rear 7” fin and mini-EVO3s. This will hang on her ceiling for the next few years and be met with a consistent “when your big enough and brave enough Seren”… it will be a special day when we finally take it out.
A 6’ x 22 1/2” grown-up version of this board is already in the pipeline. Just love the plan shape.
Designed to be a total wave hog with a really stable platform, but lots of drive and manoeuvrability to carve all over the place. EVO4 fin set up and more rocker than a plan shape like this would suggest, so it should go vert with ease.
I rode the first EVO3 again this weekend. It was designed with Nigel as a travel board to get in nice and early and draw classic lines… It also saw the rebirth of the old Ocean Magic logo. Anyways, sloppy overhead onshore wasn’t the ideal testing ground but it was still fun.
