Duck Tape Surfboards

Just recently I have started making my own duck tape surfboards. This all started back in December. I was at cable crew member Tucker's house and we had just finished a blank for a surfboard. We put it aside and planned to work on it later. Skip ahead to this spring. Tucker and I were to lazy to glass the board so we busted out the duck tape and covered it up(this is the black one). With a quick spray paint job it was ready to hit the water. We were also too lazy to add fins so we had ourselves a junky, duck tape surfboard. I tried it a few days later and it worked really well. It held its line and went really fast through flat sections. So #1worked our so well I decided to make another. I got two 1 inch pieces of insulation foam from Crowley(thanks to his family business the lumber barn), I glued them together and started sanding. I then dug fin boxes and glued in a pair of our first skeg fins. I finished it of with a roll of grey duck tape. I rode #2 today and it was sick. Not as fast as #1 but it held its line and turned well. I am now looking to improve the stiffness of the foam and work on new channels and concave. So here are my first two duck tape surfboards. The black one is 4'3 and the grey one is 3'10. -LARS

Pirates

Check out this pic I shot of pirates during a thunderstorm last week.-lars

Quarter Pipe Shred

A sick session is going down on my homemade quarter pipe. Crowley is throwing down. We had fun waves this morning and hopefully more soon. -lars

Water Shots

I shot some photos in the water a few days ago. Here's what I came out with.

-lars

Tristan

Rhett

Tom

Pat

Here You Go Max!

Here is a shot I took from the water last year of cable crew member Max! He is a big supporter of the blog and he charges with us everyday at cable. Keep Shredding Maxy!!

Recent Events

We have a  had a lot of good stuff going down at cable road lately. We had 3 days of good waves. Wednesday was overhead and glassy in the morning, Thursday was waist to chest all morning, and Friday was waist to chest most of the day. The waves yesterday were about waist high and glassy in the morning,  really fun and punchy. Julian Wilson won the U.S. Open Of Surfing a few hours ago. We may head out for dawn patrol tomorrow morning in hopes of scoring some waves. Besides that here are two go-pro shots that my man Dave took using his hero mounted on a boogie board.-lars

Epic Day

Alright, We're going to put this short and sweet, today was a pretty sick day! We woke up in the morning, checked the cam and we greeted by head-high perfection. We headed down to cable and the waves were firing. We headed out for 3 hours of perfect peeling waves, way over head on us. We all caught our fair share of good ones and altogether had an insane morning. The waves soon were ravaged by onshore winds so we decided we should go jump off a bridge. We headed to Rye Harbor with our friends John, Henry, and Jack, straight out of Texas. We got right to work on insanity doing anything we could. Here are the photographic results. -Lars and Carson

The waves we quite big and mom couldn't really see us so we didn't  get too many surf shots.

Tristan

The boys, post session

Lars first jump

Lars mid fronty

Tristan on impact

Jack and Henry, So all of a sudden Henry(in red) comes running over, "hey there ya'll. Jack an I should dive the railing." So that's exactly what happened, except they hucked superman fronts instead. So that's what happens when you show a bunch of crazy Texans a bridge to jump off.