Simsters at Mitch's La Jolla

Matuse of Mitch's with fresh Hydrodynamica Test Pilot Series
Simsters. 5'10" with double foil Gephart keels,
and a 5'6" with single foil Gephart keels.
These boards are more fun than Tijuana during Prohibition.
Straight outta IB via Joe Bauguess.

Simmons-esque

The beauty of ultra functional design is that there can be riffing done on it, and whole new things emerge. Over the last few years The Swift Movement has been dedicated to working with the designs of Bob Simmons, and there are progressive new boards emerging from the work that Joe, RK, John Elwell and the crew of test pilots are doing. Cases in point, the White Pony, a little swallow tailed cloud of a wave skate, and the Simster, a reworking of the classic Simmons design with some decidedly 21st century twists. These boards are now available for anyone wanting to live the future.

The Goods

Seriously, Joe has been a near prisoner in the bay, working off all that downtime in Costa Rica I guess. His skills have not suffered for the break however, and the boards are coming out really sharp. The reports coming in from the first batch of customs that made it out there are positively ecstatic (one of the new dual fin mini's has made it to Bali this week so we're hoping for some interesting stories from that one) and we're all pretty stoked with how things are happening to the extent that I want him to find time to knock out an extra simster for 'research' purposes. More pics soon.

2,3,4

Joe B. & Geppy... takin' care business.

Boards in at Patagonia Cardiff!

Well, Joe has been real busy shapin' boards and the Patagonia Cardiff store has just taken delivery of an excellent selection of Casper shred sticks! From 5'3 on up to 6'2... and even a couple of tints, sweet! They are located at 2185 San Elijo Avenue, Cardiff, CA 92007 Give John or Roy a call at 760-634-9886 for more info...

hydrodynamica presentation at patagonia

Partial Hydrodynamica crew will be showing a teaser and
doing a short presentation on the project at the
Patagonia store in Cardiff at 8 pm... thats tomorrow
night Saturday June 13th 2009
main event is Thomas Campbell showing the Present
gratis...4 free. please come by! Joe Bauguess and
Carl Ekstrom inna house! maybe even John Elwell....

The Hectic-ness

The only problem with getting a flow of boards and shirts happening is suddenly there's little time for anything else, like blog posting, surfing- that sort of thing. It's slowly settling into the proverbial well oiled machine state though, Joe has finished the custom orders, there's boards making it into our retail outlets, Geppy has the fin workshop humming along and Richard is off in Japan talking story and showing off a fine selection of planing craft so expect all sorts of updates very soon. In the meantime, here's a really nice post about the Caspers courtesy of Gary up in Santa Cruz.
http://srfnff.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-wave-short-and-fat.html