The art of the Fish

Artist Luke Taaffe and local shaper Dan Mac Donald have teamed up to create some boards for the new Roxy shops here on the Gold Coast and in Victoria.

The boys at Deus in Bali have been adding a bit of batik and colour to some of the boards shaped by another local Gold Coast shaper Chris Garrett.

Nice so see art and craft mixing as it should to complement each other.There are some nice things happening out there. Ah the Fish has become the little craft that has changed the way we look at our surfing , express ourselves and personalise the things we love.

Tyler Warren and the Bar of Soap

Simmons from Peru for a Frenchman.

" Hi, my name is Gérald Duterne ,
I'm French and I'm living in Peru. I Like very much fishes and mini-simmons so just got these shots of my new board shaped by Wayo Whilar in Lima. She is 5"8 x 22'3/4 x 2'7/8 with a big concave between the twin keels.
Enjoy!
Life is too short, don't waste it go surfing..."

The Simmons is a board for all places in the world for sure.

Kiwi Simmons

I just stole this shot from Fish N Log blog that Mike C took of Roger Hall - Surfline Surfboards in New Zealand shaping what are probably some pretty rare craft for the boyz over the ditch.Yeah some mini simmons on the go. Great to see the boys getting up to speed. They will never look back I can tell you.This will be the start of something for sure , once some of those flightless buggars get their blinkers off.Roger will show them the way for sure.

Big Kids on Little Simmons by Note Surfboards

Big Kids on Little Simmons from Note Surfboards on Vimeo.

Getting fishie

Churches - Sea Movies from www.KORDUROY.tv on Vimeo.

Bob's getting funky

5ft 4" Mini Simmons

Fabric on the tail , nice ...

Spotted in Byron Bay a McTavish Simmons ?

Thanks Soul Arch

Jesse on Mr Blanc

These are some of the great images taken by Cory White of Jesse Watson of Black Apache Surfboards shaping a board for him.
Check out the others and his interview at :
http://mrblanc.com/jesse-watson-of-black-apache-surfboards

Kelly Slater samples the Simmons

LOOKS LIKE TANNER GUDAUSKAS LET SLATER (10 TIME WORLD CHAMP) RIDE HIS TYLER WARREN EPOXY 4'11''

After snapping his board in Woolongong yesterday Kelly decided to try a mini simmons.

All photos by Joel Armstrong

Some funky shots from Mike

Mike Cunningham from New Zealand has a collection of scanned film shots to share.Check them out here: Mike's shots

The Alley Fish Fry 2011 #5

Fish Fry 5 - 2011 a great day had by all once again

An early shower and a slow start before the sun popped out for the day

And then they came...

Fish of all colour and shape

All shapes and sizes...

Andrew Wells , Grown Surfboards from Lennox Heads

Sam Yoon with his new long fish

Beautiful wooden Mini Simmons by Andrew Wells , Grown Surfboards

Another long fish by Sam Yoon

Plenty going on here.

Monster Board all the way from Holland via New York.

A great day was had by all and so good to see all the young shapers there with their boards and getting together with some of the older crew.

Thanks to Jackie Forbes , Shane MacGregor and Doug Massey for the great photos