Saturday, February 17, 2007

T-Head


S WIND 15 TO 20 KT.
RISING TO 20 TO 25 KT IN THE AFTERNOON.
WIND WAVES 6 FT.
W SWELL 12 FT AT 16 SECONDS.
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Some of the early surfboard shapers in Oregon in the 1960's were Bob Jensen, Jim Sagawa, and Art Spence. And per legendary shaper Bill Barnfield, early Oregon shapers also included Dan Mathews and Jerry Harrington when he arrived around 1969 to surf a famed north coast left point and worked as a sander and polisher for Tillamook Head Surfboards (and later, briefly, the Evergreen Surfboards label with Spence and Lanny Shuler in 1972).
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Barnfield describes the boards that were being made as progressive in design and tailored for the point surf...thin, dome decked, slender-railed, and with a slight flip in the nose.

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