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July 16, 2006

Purple Haze

Three weeks ago I ordered a new Haut 9'6 longboard. It's a great experience to order a custom surfboard, they build it for your height and your shape and you get to pick the glass job and the air brushed design. I was in the Haut shop 5 weeks ago and my friend Paul bought a really nice 9' board. I had to admit my raw jealousy and just go buy one so I wouldn't continue to covet Paul's board. I have been surfing a 9' Haut epoxy board for some time but I realized that the epoxy boards have too much flotation and don't slice the wave as nicely as a traditional longboard.

This fin was picked out by the guy working in the shop, his quiote: "it's like it was made exactly for your board."

Getting a custom shaped board made me realize how the master craftsman isn't very common in America any more. However surfboards are still a hand shaped piece of art that you can own for a pretty affordable price.

Today Reed (photo's are courtesy of Reed Foster) and I took the board out at Cowell's beach in Santa Cruz. It was a beautiful day but my board got dinged when some kook ran into it. When my wife saw the board she said it looked like a bowling ball, ouch!

My favorite spot to surf in SC is 41st street, this is the report . Can't wait to take the 'purple haze' out there.

Posted by Chris at July 16, 2006 09:57 PM