East Coast EVOs

Atlantic POD and Orca sent over to Florida just before Christmas. With export packing by yours truly I am pleased to say they arrived without a scratch. Looking forward to more 2013 reviews from Merrick soon.

   Merrick had a couple of Freakfish off me a while ago, the Hendrix ink work was fun to do.

Nalu

For Merrick.

BONZER wins Smithy Invitational

It was double overhead plus at Welcombe. Ig Wilkinson had come through the first super heavy heat on a very retro 6 ft twin fin and was wondering what to ride for the finals.

Whilst the other 3 finalists chose old faithfuls Ig, with a little encouragement from literary master and photo journalist Lee Robertson (thanks for the pic Lee), thought “I know  I’ll try a bonzer, and why not that weird looking asymmetric Tim is always banging on about.”

He won with smooth powerful carves, big turns on even bigger faces. To me he looked immediately comfortable and was able to lay down turns comfortably across the powerful walls. He won the contest with ride of the day, a massive right that broke from way out back all the way to the inside, surfer and board always ahead, always in control.

Ig really impressed me with his surfing, but also with his open mindedness. Thanks, respect, and congrats.

Orca

Orca – the asymmetric bonzer - finally finished – not been a rush due to my knees, but now it is complete i am so excited to ride it and see how it performs… see if the theories are realised in its performance… probably the most excited I have been since the Joker.

Original link with all the concepts is here

              

Enough pics?