Wednesday, October 30, 2013

FOR SALE: BARK CT

BARK STOCK CT FOR SALE:  My Molokai Board
-$2200.

My favorite: The Square Tail.
This one is a hair wider than my Catalina square.
For sale is my beautiful Molokai board from 2013.  Dan Van Dyke and I managed to paddle this beauty to a division win this year and also first CA team to finish. This board also won the Jay Race in 2013.  It's a FAST board!
Nose detail.
The front on this one has slightly more volume in the chest and shoulders
than my Catalina board.  Coupled with the square tail, it's a racing machine.
An incredible board.

Full disclsoure:  I dinged this board near the finish at Molokai.  Charlie at the Bark factory repaired it to pristine condition.  Remaining is one small pressure dent which is barely visible.  I tried to take a picture of it.



In any event, the board is water tight and amazing.  It's 19-3/4" wide.  It's a double carbon but painted to avoid nasty sunlight.  It weighs, even after the repair, just 17.5 pounds.

Comes with the blue Futures Gerry Lopez fin.


Contact me at shshlens at g mail dot com.

Thanks for looking!

-Steve

For Sale: Catalina Classic CT

BARK STOCK CT:  Catalina Classic Winner
$2200.
My old faithful.  An incredible stock CT.
This beautiful board won the stock class in the Catalina Classic in 2012 in a near record time of 5:56:02, just 32 seconds off the all-time record.  An amazing board in pristine condition.

It weighs, without added weight for the Classic, just 18.2 pounds with the fin.


Comes with the blue Futures Gerry Lopez fin which is incredible downwind and in the flats.

Square tailed beauty.
This allows for a bit more volume out the back to keep the board up and moving forward.
I think it works.
The nose.
I asked for the vent plug in front of the 'fin box' for bottles so I wouldn't forget to close it.
Bonus picture... just because.

Contact me at shshlens at g mail dot com.

Thanks for looking!

-Steve

Thursday, October 24, 2013

Hold on!

First person point of view of Kelly McGarry's Redbull Rampage ride.

Love this point of view footage where you can hear every breath, thought, feeling.

INSANE.











Now, if you're really interested in seeing what it looked like from the third person point of view.  [For this one, I'd recommend turning the volume off for at least the first 2 minutes.  "Dropping the hammer of Thor?"  Really guys?  Really?]







Sunday, October 20, 2013

Glide

Nasty, gnarly, but glide remains the key...


Saturday, October 5, 2013

No Irony.

Heard a song this morning while flipping through the radio stations (do other people still listen to radios?) and it made me laugh... yet at the same time feel a twinge of nostalgia.  I had to listen all the way through.

Back in high school in the 80's, my friend Alex Woodard [http://www.alexwoodard.com/]  was into Neil Diamond.  I never quite got it.  Alex's appreciation wasn't ironic, but it should be noted he hated the 70's and 80's Neil Diamond.

I never was into Neil, but this song brought me back.





Visit Alex's website [again:  http://www.alexwoodard.com/ ] and enjoy.