Karma fin...

A few months ago, fellow swaylockers Paul Jensen and David Falkenau were trying to do a trade, a 24' paddleboard for a 13'5" longboard. trouble was they live 1100 miles away from each other. They put the word out on sways, trying to get rides north and south for the boards. I chimed in that I could help as I usually make a Swami's trip in late winter. I was able to pick up Paul's paddleboard in Portland and get it 225 miles closer to David before my Swami's trip was canceled. No worries, I knew Santa Cruz was coming up so we made arrangements to pass it along there.
Turns out I was shaping a board for a friend who had another friend coming up from San Diego-and he had room for the 13'5" and picked it up in Carlsbad.
Last week, I dropped off the paddleboard with Rooster in Santa Cruz, the week before, the 13'5" was delivered to my front door.
Rooster will get the paddleboard to Santa Barbara at least, much closer to San Diego than here.
Yesterday, Paul stopped by to pick up the 13'5"...

Here comes the Karma...

I use one of my Father's old fins, a 1968 issue Nuuhiwa fin. Its beat, stressed, worn down on the tip and fits kind of loose. But its a great fin.
I copied the fin myself as a glass on, had it fitted on my 10'0" till the tail and fin met some rocks and ripped the fin base apart (fucked the tail up too).
So yesterday, Paul is showing me his van (super stylie!) and some how fins come up...
And he grabs one out of a drawer and hands it to me..."here, you can have this one"...


Thats the Karma fin on the left, my Fathers old fin in the box and the glass-on I made that was cut off after the tail exploded in the rocks (look closely and you can see the tail has been rebuilt).
Got to say, made my day.
I got a sticker too.
Paul is a straight up guy who builds some very nice boards and has really pushed the envelope when it comes to HWS's.
Thanks Paul, I will treasure this fin for a long time to come.

Stella and I switched bake night to Wednesdays so we could swim on Thursdays, here she is breaking things....
Yep, except for no surf, yesterday was pretty damn good...
See ya and thanks for stopping by.