September 2012

28 Sep

Development of the Seaglass Project Tuna and Albacore

Tom Wegener

The tuna is the completion of a vision that I had the first moment I saw Jake ride that first faithful wave an alaia in 2005, "Oh my god, you don't need a fin!!!" Tom Blake put fin on a surfboard in 1936 but they did not really become a necessary part of surfboards for almost a generation. Could we have lost something special when we abandoned the finless surfing some time in the late 1950s?

21 Sep

Origin of the Surfie Surfboard

Tom Wegener

My introduction to the wood belly board was backward. I made replicas of the boards I saw in the Bishop Museum in Hawaii and found how fun they are to surf. I was wondering why nobody else surfs like this. Then I discovered there were pockets of stoked wood belly boards in the UK and Hawaii. Once I looked deeper, I found that 100 years ago there was a wave of belly boarding popularity that went around the world.