The Grain Surfboards Home Grown Boards are essentially a kit with all the milled components you will need to build your own board. Grain has a line of some 14 boards from the 5’4 Waka fish to the 10’6 Northern Pintail. The Seed is a popular pick for its versatility and classic lines, but Grain offers eight of its boards as kits. You pick the stick. Then, the specific frame, cedar planks, rail strips, fin boxes, leash plug, glue, and glass all arrive at your door. It’s up to you to assemble the frame, set the outline on the bottom planks and build upwards on the rail with 3/16 inch strips of cedar, fit your top planks before shaping the final product. Then sand for a few days and glass it. Figure on about 50 hours.

Building a kit is by no means an easy task. Grain also offers classes, wherein students go to the factory (something else you might want to put on your bucket list.) Working side-by-side with the Grain staff, it still takes seven days, but you leave with what is sure to be the gem of your quiver. The Home Grown kits require some DIY skills an ample garage space, but they come with a very thorough instruction manual.

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Ok, this is not really “surf news that matters” 🙂

Lindsay Lohan had yet another body part escape her clothing, when her right breast plopped out of her bathing suit while body surfing in Miami.

So, in less than a week we’ve exposed two breasts and a hoo-hah.

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Coming soon to a surfing lineup near you: jet-powered boards designed to make paddling, catching and even riding waves easier and more enjoyable.
“Wavejet” surfboards, after 10 years of development, are set to debut as part of a U.S. demo tour this summer. They’ll sell for $4,500 apiece, or about five times the cost of an ordinary board, and enable surfers to paddle at two to three times their normal speed.
It’s hoped the boards will pique the interest of surfers of all levels, but they figure to be most attractive to aging surfers with waning arm strength and perhaps lifeguards who would benefit from swifter access to victims during rescue operations.
Purists, of course, will cringe at the notion, as they cringed 15 years ago when “tow surfers” began to catch waves while being pulled from ropes behind jet-powered personal watercraft; and more recently when the standup, or SUP phenomenon began.
“I’d say about 95% of the people are going to say, ‘This is amazing and cool,’ but you’re always going to get those people who are angry about anything new coming into the sport,” said Steve Walden, a Wavejet board designer whose shop in Ventura, Calif., will serve as the primary outlet facility.

 

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