The Life Amphibious

Literally - The winds shifted a bit yesterday - from dead calm at 0600 to SE as the sun warmed the area and to a steady flow from the E as t...

Today - our amphibious adventure consisted of sailing our trimaran. Took the tri out on two independent runs: The first was with the family ...

We needed to pick up La's longboard from the ding repair shop yesterday, so we decided to bring the kids to the Aviation Museum at NAS P...

I'm trying to get the last bit of shaping done on the first three boards so I can get them painted and glassed and wet. The regular bloc...

Advice from Tshirts are rarely good, but these make you want to go and buy a second set, chop out the cool innards (the part with the graphi...

Squirt guns and paddleboards on Saturday at Okaloosa Island, Florida. This was at the ICW side, just East of Fort Walton - actually really c...

I've got a ton of non-blanked EPS in the garage, and some bamboo veneer... Guess what is on the chopping blocks... The alaia I made prev...

The straighter one is for a friend in Houston - 11'6" "Jack-of-all-trades" so he blop the dogs on board, paddle a ton of ...

Yesterday afternoon, I got a chance to work on Noe's board. With the rough shaping done on all three of the first wave of boards, I shif...

Took an afternoon off and went to Ft Walton Beach, Florida where the subject event was being held. What a unique opportunity to check out s...

The Lightwind Kiteboard is pretty much done, but I still have to calculate the footstrap positions and the finboxes. I've already foile...

The Marines have a Reserve Unit here in Gulfport that work with Amphibious Troop Transports. The locals get to see them practice on the wee...

It's only mid-April and I'm kiting in the Gulf of Mexico (felt just like Kailua Bay in June temp wise) without a wetsuit or any oth...

After watching my wife La make beautiful things for nearly a decade, I have now gotten the bug to be able to sew things. Not "pretty...

Here are the big SUP blanks. Carted these things home through traffic going 45 mph, with a nice stiff wind coming from the SE. The load shi...