this is JACK TAR

Ben Conquest aka Jack Tar, local lad that loves surfin and snapin away with his cameras. He has a great blog and web site full of amazing stills and videos showing his skills that pays the bills.

TONGA

Awhile ago some friends and i where craving a surf trip, didn't want to go to Bali and we didn't want to spend alot of money as well. Tonga came up in conversation, gets swell, its cheap, has only one surf camp on the island, and sounded like a great place. So we booked and headed over there. It started with a small group of boys but we ended up with 9 of us(way too many). We stayed for 6 nights, for most of the week we had waves, i heard the place can be thickle, out of the 6 days we where there i think we surfed 4. The water was amazing, the other reefs where fun and lots of little breaks you can walk up the beach to and get a wave to yourself(if your not travelling with 8 guys). Depending on the swell direction the whole place will break left or right. It was a good trip with the boys, wasn't an epic waves trip but still supa fun.

TIMBER

For a while now when im not putting a box in a longboard ill always make the glass-in, its nice to work with something like wood, its like foam, its soft and really easy to shape and comes up nice once glassed.

Kyal and his RED BARON

Kyal is a good friend, iv known him and his older brother Jai since they where born, both great surfers, both supa fun guys to hang out with. Jai lives in Adelaide and is a serious kick boxer. Kyal is up here on the coast and is a amazing Carpenter and is able to build anything he wants, including his own house. Couple of years ago i made my self a 5'8 quad with flyer's, Kyal took an interest in it, so it ended up in his quiver, to this day its still his prefered board to ride in swell around the 1-4 foot.

BECOMING ONE

My poor shoes are becoming one with the floor, they where once a pair of the $20 canvas slip on's, but now a solid pair of clogs.

THE FAT KID

'THE FAT KID' is all about volume, this one 5'11, i would really like to make my self one a little bit smaller around the 5'6-5'7 mark, the nose is fuller, lot more volume through the whole way of the board from tail to nose, the rocker is very flat, its a board for someone who wants a fun board but not a fish, wants a performance board but not your every day thruster.

TINTS

I think my favorite part of board making is the glassing, the things i love about this process are colour selection, laying out nice fresh cloth, mixing of the colours to the lam, i find it nice and relaxing...........then you add the harder and you have 8-10 mins to get the mix into the cloth and onto the foam, making sure your colour is nice and even, that your laps are wetted out and are nice and flat with no lifting in the cloth,making sure you have no drain out, all before your left with a goo going off in ya bucket......all fun and games until ya stuff it up!!

FOUR FIN FLYIN FISH FOR A FANCY FRIEND

'FOUR FIN FLYIN FISH' was made for a friend in Adelaide, the surf on the mid coast of SA is not that crash hot most of the time, don't get me wrong it will have its days where all the elements come togeather for the whole of the mid to be crackin, this board was made for them, enjoy Craigy, may your slides be long.

NEW BIKE!!!

new single speed, supa fun.

the LOVE of my wife

I love my wife Shelly she is the best.

loving getting it out there

love getting SEALEGGED out there!

THE YELLOW YETTI KEEL FISH

THE YELLOW YETTI is a "5'4x "21.5"x"2.75" keel fish, i made this one for my self, i really wanted a fun little board for good days, something that's going to be a top to bottom board, big long drawn out turns, and supa fast. the bottom is a full concave the whole way through to the tail and out. Black and yellow tint with hand made ply keel fins that have also been tinted in blk. THE YETTI is still curing, i want to keep it for myself but I'm also heading overseas shortly so if you like the look of it your welcome to it, just drop me a line.

good food, good buddies!

newyears eve we where over in the states, spent the night at a killer mexican joint in the middle of nowhere, best night in along time.

SINGLE STAN

SINGLE STAN is a "7'7"x"22"x"3" mid length board, soft rails with single concave into a V running out of the tail. Great chilling board nice and floaty with a fair bit of speed with a nice loose tail. This is a stock board so if you would like to take the SINGLE STAN home with you, drop me a line.

9'4 logger #2

another 9'4 log for another local guy, this was a really fun board to tint, love the colours, came up nice and he was happy, me tooooo!!!

the FULL NELSON

this is the FULL NELSON i named this model after a friend, 7'2 single fin, has a tinted deck with a clear bottom, has a realy long V in it.

ITS JUST LIKE XMAS

Had a visit from SouthCoast Foam last week, im very stoked, now i need to decide what im going to shape, i have a lot of ideas, i just need to focus on one blank at a time.

xmas with the inlaws

This year we had Xmas 3 times, the day would not end!! we left for the states on xmas day at 9pm, arrived in Hawaii on xmas lunch time then arrived at Seattle at 9pm xmas night. From Seattle we headed up north about 4 miles under the boarder where Shelly's dad lives, great place he has a house in the woods right under Mt Baker, its a nice place to just chill and relax.

new 6'2 fish

this is a 6'2 fish that i shaped up for a customer in Adelaide, its a little bit chunker for him, nice and floatie.

6'6 2+1 stubbie

this board is shaped on a very old school style, has a really thin nose, really rolled deck, nice round tail with a low rail, its running a greenough with side biters, love the tint combo and the inlays, this little number is hanging out at ADRIFT as well.

San Fran

Had a great week in San Fran, heaps to see and do, supa cold butt still a great time, good food and people.

JOE HALL AKA SURFERJOE

Joe Hall, part time school teacher, part time lead singer of The Mandalas, also keeper of SurferJoe blog and wave slider. Joe enjoys a number of rides, ranging from this 10 foot valla wooden log hand crafted by Mr Paul Joske, a couple of long boards, a hand full of fishes, single fin, stubbie, and a short board thruster for the days he would like to fit back into the main stream society of surfing. He loves to try all different types of lines and rides, I really enjoy watching Joe surf, he has a real fluid style and is always stoked no matter what the waves are doing.

old school new school

book fan or DS fan?