So its a Tuesday, the chart looks good for up North but we have to be back down South in Bournemouth for Saturday morning. Doable? Hell yes ladies and gentleman. Leave Newquay on Tuesday at 18:30 pm arrive at our most Northerly of Northerly destinations via a boat at 11 am Wednesday morning. Drive straight to the surf spot, get amongst it till the tide stops cooperating, then drive back to the digs for a quick sleep. Yawn! Wake up at 4pm have a good search for waves but the wind is being a twat so we retire for the day (happily) safe in the knowledge that tomorrow will bring us the day of all days!! (according to the chart) Wake up at 5am thursday check the waves on the ski, everywhere is maxed out!!! Nightmare!! What shall we do? I know, lets walk around a cold snowy island all day in search of something to tow!!
Yaaaaay. After 5 hours of walking it becomes apparant that we can either surf a small fat left hander ORRRRR, begin the journey back to the mother land in time to get a fun session at a well known righthand reef. Bearman calls it and we back our shit and get the show on the road. Eight hours later via roads boats and redbull, we get to our destination just as the sun comes out to find a perfect soupy 3-4 foot beauty with no one out!!! What a lovely end to a rushed trip. One hour later it goes onshore. Can't complain though as it pumped for an hour and every surfer knows that there is no better feeling than surfing perfect waves with a great bunch of mates hooting you in to anything that comes through.
So, still frothing to squeeze in one more surf before the sun goes down we drive down and have a little look at a few spots on the way home. We found some super fun waves just before the sun went down............. and 14 hours later we were in bournemouth with a beer in hand. Easy peasy!!! Have a look at the vid and let us know what you think!!!!
Monday, April 11, 2011
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Kathy Evans Surfboard Art
Kathy Evans has done some amazing artwork for us here at Quiver and I just wanted to show you some of her recent work this month. Amazing stuff!!! If you fancy something like this on your next board, get in touch and she can get designing or you can give her some of your own creations.
Hart Attack Rider - Stoked!!!
More good feedback for us from a grom over in Boscombe on his Hart Attack:"Hi Luke,
I e-mailed you a few weeks ago asking what size for the hartattck (6'2 6'4) would be good to get for a grom who's coming down from a mini mal. I went with the 6'2 and just tried it out yesterday at my local break Boscombe in 2ft waves. And the board is brilliant it was so fast and lose. Its given me a load of confdence becasue I can duck dive now. So thanks a lot for it.
Jack"
Nice one Jack.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
board barn team rider frothing on his poppa!!!
Its so good! My Poppa that I bought from the Board Barn has been a really versatile and fun short board surf board.
The Poppa has been used contantly for the last 3 months and in those 3 months has been surfed in the Fast barreling reef waves in Indonesia to the slower fatter beaches in the uk. In these contrasting conditions the Quiver Poppa has been one of the best boards I have ever had.
I took the Poppa to Indo to fill a gap between the two boards that I already had; a high performance 6'0 and a barrel chasing 606. From my experience of Indo in the past I knew that the wet season can create some very average days that would not be so fast and criticle. After speaking with Guy at the Board Barn the Quiver Poppa came out as the board for the job. Check out this link to get the shapers description of the Poppa http://www.seabase.eu/surfboards/Quiver/Poppa/
Thanks to the Board Barn for the chat that got me to the Quiver Poppa!
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Do Something Amazing - BID ON THIS (if you have the cash)!!
An ebay seller whose bizarre wetsuit advert went viral has pledged to donate 90 per cent from the sale to victims of the Japanese earthquake.
Kind-hearted D Morgan, from Truro, put his ”urine free” wetsuit on the popular auction website last week with the advert promptly going viral thanks to his comical description.
Amazingly, more than 400,000 have viewed the wetsuit in which he goes to great lengths to describe the condition of the product and his own impeccable grooming.
He wrote: ”I rinsed it in fresh water after EVERY session so it’s in VERY good condition as I look after my gear, I always do.
”Similarly, I take care of my body and shower at least once a day and always moisturise. Yes, you’re probably getting a feel for the kind of man I am.
”You’re probably thinking ‘people p*ss in wetsuits, I’m not sure about a second hand wetsuit’, but believe it or not I have NEVER urinated in this suit, seriously, these suits are too good to be doing such a vulgar act in.
”The wee just ends up staying in the suit and then when you’re sat having a post-surf pint in the pub you smell awful and girls don’t like boys that smell of p*ss, so you just sit there, alone all night, sobbing into your pint of Betty Stoggs like a lonely desperate p*ss smelling man.”
He also admits the only reason he’s selling the suit is because he’s ”a flash t**t who buys a new one each season” who likes ”the feel of fresh neoprene on my soft skin”.
With the huge amount of global interest garnered up by the advert, bids are now approaching a staggering £4,000.
As a result, the Cornwall surfer has decided to make use of ”all the ‘f*cking energy man” and pledge 90 per cent of the sale price to the Red Cross to aid their efforts in Japan.
We at Quiver are offering a brand spanking new board to the lucky buyer and the original makers of the wetsuit, Hawaiian company XCEL, got in touch with the seller and offered a new suit worth £300 to the auction winner while DryRap has donated a special towel to the auction. Carve magazine is also throwing in a free subscription.
Click the link to see how much its at http://goo.gl/6idic
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