Had a bunch of fun set waves on my 7'6" Woosley vquad at Granite.
Before going around there I spied Derek Hynd in the car park checking out another guys finless board. I've seen him out at Tea tree during a solid 4' plus day a few years back and at Nationals during a much smaller day where we had a chat about finless surfing.
The coincidental thing I was just talking to another stall holder at Eumundi about him yesterday and showed the guy the clip of Derek surfing Jbay.
He's a Brazzo hpsb guy so he was amazed.
So I had a chat and the board pictured is his old one from Glass love (Skip Frye glider?) that he routed out the fin box and put in a deep central concave with 2 outer concaves running down the rails to make it work finless.
As I was walking around to Granite and I'm on the path near the slanted jump off rock a set comes through and there's major hooting going on in the water and I look over and there's DH taking off on his board while sitting down and runs along the wall and then up to the lip and slides 45 degress back down and keeps going still sitting on his board.
If it was anyone else sitting on an 11'er and taking off on a set wave in front of a slew of people there'd be screams of terror and cursing and yelling.
Caught up with a guy called Mark who'd just bought himself a surfed once 7'6" McTavish tracker. He was loving it. We traded set waves and got to see him pull a lovely bottom turn on it from the ledge as we'd both paddled for it (I pulled back of course since I was on his outside).
For a while I thought I was in Byron or something what with all the hipsters clogging up the place.
I even found myself in Noosa longboards eyeing up a Tom Wegener short single fin...time for an intervention?
here's a shot of Teatree.
when DH is spinning down the wave AT YOU
