Opened in 1967, Mitch's is one of the last surf shops left that actually sell blanks and shaping tools, (how many of you out there bought your first blank from them?) have employees who know what spiral vee is, and they even sell bandoleros that hold cans of beer...
Mr. John Smart has been down to Moonlight a few times in the last few weeks to film the inner workings of shaping and production for his movie currently in production entitled, "The Tyler Warren Experiments".
Gary Stuber taping off laps for Tyler's new Space Cookie, a board Tyler and I designed for the movie. John's working on a new trailer with clips of TW surfing one at a certain point break south of the boarder...
Maggie Marsek just texted me to let me know she started a blog called SEALAYER. It's just getting started, so check it out...she's a great photographer and a hip, hip lady.
Here's some pictures of Eli Mirandon surfing Blacks during the last swell we had down here. He's on a 5'11" wingless quad fish with marine-ply AK4s...
Photos by David Gray
5'11" wingless quad fish 20.5" x 2.5" Persimmon resin tint Wet-sanded gloss Authentic-kinda-hard-to-get Larry Gephart marine-ply quad fins Moonlight Glassing
Check out more elements of Eli's world at ELI SURFING.
Somewhere deep in the woods of Northern California lurks a guy named Seth Bowman. He shapes his own boards, is usually found fishing instead of working, and he loves to make sound effects when he shreds. Here's some pics from his humble abode: