Quiver Surfboards

Friday, February 3, 2012

Empty Waves in Bonny Scotland

Quiver team rider Dee Ripoll has been making the most of the sunny days back home in Scotland and nice to see an empty line up (getting more rare these days to see this). Here's a few nice shots from up North.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Quiver Signs Up Surf Action 2012

Quiver Surfboards and Seabase are very excited to announce their support for Surf Action in 2012.

Surf Action is a community interest company and non-profit organisation whose core purpose is to support combat veterans, especially amputees and veterans who experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through surfing and associated support. It has proved to be a powerful tool to change peoples self perception and self belief, helping them to discover a new and more positive direction in life. Surf Action was set up by Rick Emerson, himself a combat veteran who suffered from PTSD, with some pilot funding from the Cornwall Works pooled funds.

The additional ESF Convergence investment through Cornwall Works 50+ enabled Surf Action to test their delivery model with people aged 50+ who were lacking motivation and confidence and who were unsure about their future direction. This is achieved through participating in peer group surfing activity that is both physically and mentally challenging and often perceived as a young persons activity.Evidence from the individual case study materials shows that Surf Action is making a real difference to people’s lives, in terms of improved motivation and confidence to move towards getting back into work. One way this is put into action is by holding weekly clinics at Gwithian Towans. Here attendees aged 50+ can go to the beach with the team and find out what an exhilarating, positive and social experience there is to be had. The clinics are held every Friday, meeting at the Sunset Surf Cafe at noon. If you are interested in attending, call Russ or Rich on 01736-811920 or email russ@surfaction.co.uk

Since the initial investment through Cornwall Works Surf Action has been successful with a Lottery Funded People’s millions bid of £50,000 to develop the activity, as well as being nominated for the ‘Best Healthy Project’. This is a reflection of how this innovative activity is inspiring people to engage. For more information, please check their site out - www.surfaction.co.uk

Thursday, January 26, 2012

SurferLiving.com Publishes Largest List of Airline Boardbag Charges

Check out the largest list of

http://www.surferliving.com/airline-boardbag-charges

SurferLiving.com has just created and released the largest list of airline boardbag fees ever published, with the price and specification details of nearly 140 airlines around the globe. This list is a whopping 400% bigger than any previously published list of airline board bag fees.

If you’re a surfer then you’re probably a surf traveler. If you’re a surf traveler then you’ve probably been frustrated at times by the high prices and ambiguous oversize baggage procedures that many airlines have in place. With the new boardbag fee schedule available at SurferLiving.com, you now have access to detailed information for virtually every commercial airline in operation today. Not only will you be able to research the prices that each airline charges - saving you time and money - you will also have detailed information prior to check-in and this will save you a lot of frustration.

Look for the “Boardbag Charges” tab in the tool bar at http://SurferLiving.com and find out for yourself which airlines make the most sense for your next surf trip.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Student Surf Tour, Tolcarne Beach Newquay

The Student Surf Tour hosted their second event of the academic calendar this weekend at a blustery Tolcarne, Newquay. Universities from around the country, which included Swansea Met, UWE, UWIC, Bournemouth, AUCB, Falmouth, Cardiff, Staffordshire, Bath and Plymouth challenged the howling on shore winds to whittle the field down to two champions.

Men's Finalists were Sam Coad riding one of our Quiver Models and Tom Perkins (Both Plymouth), Swansea Met's very own Zak Lawton and Gordan Fontaine of Bournemouth also riding for Quiver. The thirty minute final saw Gordon come out on top, Sam in second, Zak took third while Tom took a respectable fourth.

The Women's Final saw newcomer Ariana De-domething-double-barrelled-de-Alexandre-sans-serif from UWE pitched against SST Regular Charlotte Bayliss (Cardiff), Julie Royer (Cardiff) and Newquay local Holly Donnelly surfing on behalf of Plymouth. Ariana took fourth place in her first ever surf competition, and was stoked to have reached the final! Julie came third place and enjoyed the surfing so much she surfed right through the awards ceremony. Charlotte narrowly missed out on first place, which was awarded to Plymouth's Holly Donnelly. She went home with a brand new wetsuit courtesy of Gul Watersports.

Student Surf Tour event organisers would like to thank judges Kerry Powell, Andy Sturt, Joe Davies and David Renyard for thier hard work over the weekend, as well as Llyr and Occy from Era for keeping us all healthy and safe.

The event was made possible through the support of Relentless Energy Drink, Gul Watersports, Dogcam, Skindog Surfboards, Adams Surfboards, RobieRobes and Era Water Safety Cover.

This event was hosted by Student Surf Tour limited and the SST HQ was kindly leant to us by Cornwall College Newquay at the Tolcarne facilities. Cornwall College Newquay currently run the FdSc Surf Science and Technology course and a new course for 2012 Coastal Ecology and Conservation, further information regarding these courses can be obtained by contacting newquay.enquiries@cornwall.ac.uk

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Bristol - The Next Big Surf town?

A man-made wave park is being built in Shirehampton, Bristol. Have a look at the promo video here and check out Cornwall's Reubin Ash, a gaggle of pro surfers and some pretty awesome local kids putting the Basque Country facilities through it's paces...