My editing program crashed while I was preparing this article, so the first version lacked a lot of the pictures. This is now the full article. The full photo gallery is at: http://gallery.me.com/billbab#100285… …What a day. A beach full of kids, Stand Up board everywhere, new toys, old friends, new friends, and a sprinkle of celebrity. So what Continue Reading
Bill is cleaning house on some of his personal boards. Any Maui surfer knows about the high quality and excellent design of Bill’s boards. He’s a very active and exceptional SUP surfer and Longboarder, though I don’t recall seeing him on a longboard in the last two years. Like many of us he’s switched over Continue Reading
In the heat of the shortboard revolution, the summer of 1972, young surf phenomenon Gerry Lopez and Jack Shipley realized the old established shops were buried under inventories of boards that were obsolete. They decided to open their own surfboard shop dedicated to the leading edge of surfing–and Lightning Bolt was born. Gerry Lopez and Continue Reading