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About Surf Ride:
Starting as a seedling in the 1970’s, Surf Ride has grown from the ground up, sprouting first in Oceanside, and branching out to a second location in Solana Beach. With both store fronts rooted along the Pacific Coast Highway, Surf Ride is committed to providing customers with as many product choices as possible. Their hard work has paid off and has led to recognition from Transworld Business as ‘Hardgoods Retailer of the Year’. From Land to the Sea, their vision is to get everyone as stoked on riding the elements as they are. To keep up with the rise of the internet world, their team has developed an online shop, providing product to your doorstep with the click of a button.

Eric Warner

He stands tall, bearded and blue eyed, with a thirst for adventure that bleeds from his freckled skin. A natural waterman, he is lanky with a calm, collected, casual approach to life. His intellect uniquely blends with his aesthetic stance, creating a rare vision. Eric meanders the land, embarking on a quest when he deems fit; he hunts Bass in the secret lakes of the south west, roams the high desert basins, crosses the pacific. Have you seen emerald blue water? What he sees whilst on these missions, he captures.
What great talent. A gifted photograph maker will take you places – The bowels of a grinding wave – The depth of the high desert – The blue of the pacific – The cold of the winter – The heat of the tropics. Do you hear the wind rustling the grassy palm fronds? Do you smell the traffic in the city? I do. You will too. ewarnerphoto.com.
-James Tull – SurfRide

Hobs Board Shop opened its doors in 1995 as a core shop to serve all boarders. They have continued to grow in Snowboarding , Wakeboarding , Skateboarding and Surf and today is one of the leading board shops north of Boston. Along with todays leading products like Burton, Ride, Anon, Liquid Force, CWB and Hyperlite, Hobs offers the best in service… they promise you won’t be disatisfied.
Located North of Boston Hobs Board Shop serves the riders throughout New England. ALL EMPLOYEES ARE BOARDERS and it makes a difference.
Hobs carrys the latest in boarding gear and as the seasons change offer discontinued items at incredibly low pricing.

Located at:
85 Andover St. Unit 1D
Danvers, MA. 01923
978-750-1847

Stock list arriving in 2 weeks:
Alchemist Remix – 6’2″ x 20 3/4″ x 2 9/16″
Disk 2 – 5’8″ x 19 3/4″ x 2 9/16″
Beaker Comp – 5’10″ x 20″ x 2 7/16″
FlashPoint – 6’0″ x 19 5/8″ x 2 3/8″
Boombastik – 6’3″ x 20 1/2″ x 2 5/8″
Solution – 6’8″ x 22″ x 2 3/4″
Call to reserve your today (978) 750-1847

We got the opportunity this year to join the likes of Dane Reynolds, Andrew Doheny, and Tanner Gudauskas by teaming up with Captain Fin Co and producing a fin. The Chemistry “Colab 2″ is a template that we designed for the high performance surfer who wants drive and the right amount of release. With it’s wide base, smooth rake, and medium sized tip, the Colab 2 goes well in all types of surf. We have had a chance over the past 8 months to test this template, and make subtle changes to suit everyone looking for a high performance fin. Featuring the current “tail art” on all of our boards by Collective artist Pace. This fin is a med/large fin with a 4.65″ base and 4.73″ height.

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Eric Warner
 eric@ewarnerphoto.com

He stands tall, bearded and blue eyed, with a thirst for adventure that bleeds from his freckled skin. A natural waterman, he is lanky with a calm, collected, casual approach to life. His intellect uniquely blends with his aesthetic stance, creating a rare vision. Eric meanders the land, embarking on a quest when he deems fit; he hunts Bass in the secret lakes of the south west, roams the high desert basins, crosses the pacific. Have you seen emerald blue water? What he sees whilst on these missions, he captures.
What great talent. A gifted photograph maker will take you places – The bowels of a grinding wave – The depth of the high desert – The blue of the pacific – The cold of the winter – The heat of the tropics. Do you hear the wind rustling the grassy palm fronds? Do you smell the traffic in the city? I do. You will too. ewarnerphoto.com.
-James Tull – SurfRide

The most popular rectangle, FireWire’s Vanguard designed by Tomo

Going back to the origin of this concept with Bob Simmons in the early 1940s, Simmons dropped out of the California Institute of Technology where he studied aero and hydrodynamics. He started applying these radical new principles to the surfboards he shaped. These surfboards were made of balsa wood with a spoon-like nose, a thin squared-off tail, and calibrated rails.

Hydrodynamica’s rendition of the straight outline

Fast forward to modern day ideas and concepts, we see shapers drawing straighter lines and shrinking lengths. Taking away width and thickness and adding volume back into the nose and tail width. With the extreme straighter rail lines, these boards will create tons of speed without the help of the wave. The extra speed is great for slower surf where you can use the help. If the shaper keeps the board on the narrower side, the board will still be able to maneuver well. The extra nose and tail width provides enough volume to accommodate someone despite the board being narrower. One of the most interesting characteristics of these boards is the all the different tail configurations to choose from. They all drastically change how the boards ride, from being really loose in small surf to holding in larger waves.

Tom Curren and his Tomo

These rectangle boards definitely have their place for the time being. But more than likely they will go out of style, and like all things, they will resurface again. That being said, these oddities are great boards to have in the quiver, especially for those gutless days. They definitely keep things interesting.

Jason

Good buddy Ryan Burch and one of his Asymmetricals

The Experimental has the straight outline but lacks the squared nose