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one more long exposure…..cropped. 

taken May 13th, Sunday. 

Bit of fun. 

photo by hodaddy

With the clear nights here for the last week i couldnt help but take some long exposures with my camera.

photo by hodaddy

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Heading up the beach in Tony’s North Shore cruiser. Circa ‘67.

sometimes a photo pops up that says a million words.

(Source: britishtrash, via jaybone)

From Midget Farrelly’s website….very interesting read on surfboards for those that are interested. 

The 1967 photo by Dick Graham had great significance. Dick took the shot at the Palm Beach, Windansea vs Australia contest in November 1967. When Dick shot this image there was not another board even slightly similar to it, in Australia or any other country. By comparison surfers like Nat and McTavish were still riding 9 foot plus. Nat was still riding ‘Sam’, his long round bottom Woods board (see below). McTavish had never seen a vee bottom until November 1967. The board McTavish saw in November 1967 was made in July 1967 at Palm Beach, NSW.

The board is in the Dick Graham photo.

Should of been here 30 years ago!

looks familiar.

today is packing up the ‘MP Stoke Pack!’

New Michael Peterson t shirt we just been making in the garage for the ‘mp stoke pack’.

it was a

s t o k e

Ride A White Horse by Bob Evans. 

This is a must see surf film for anyone interested in 1960’s surfing culture. 

The soundtrack is a worldclass jazz score by Sven Libaek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Libaek

Bob Evans made over a dozen feature length surfing films before he died in the mid 1970’s. NONE of them are available in the digital world, aside from Ride A White Horse. More on Bob Evans here http://www.switch-foot.com/photographer/bob-evans

click through for more on this film.

If you happen to read one of the modern corporately sponsored surfing magazines you might be led to believe that the twin fin surfboard was invented by Mark Richards…or even Terry Fitzgerald. This would be like saying that Jimi Hendrix invented the electric guitar. False. Jimi Hendrix developed a style of electric guitar playing, much like Mark Richards developed a style of surfing based on the twin fin, utterly unique and influential. The FACT that Mark Richard’s twin fins were heavily influenced by the master craft of shaper/designer Geoff McCoy is largely missing from people’s reality.

So, did Geoff McCoy invent the twin fin? Absolutely not and I am sure he wouldn’t claim such a thing. IN fact you can read on his website for yourself what he says about the origin. http://www.mccoynugget.com/twin_fin_surfboards.htm

The purpose of this post is to offer some reality into the modern interpretations of historical fact…the surfing industry tries to put names to things so they can market it and sell more product. But, if you click through and take 5 minutes, the history of the Twin fin surfboards goes back to Blake, probably further.