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Drop Zone


A big ol’ congrats goes out to Davenport rider Eddie Solt, AKA Edfactor, for recently being named Drop Zone editor. The Drop Zone is a monthly local surf mag supplement in the Easy Reader. 


This month’s installment marks the first issue with Eddie’s involvement. The styling of this month’s Drop Zone was inspired by the passing of the late great, Donald Takayama and features a South Bay tribute. There is also a pictorial ode to 22nd Street Hermosa, lost and found Rick Griffin artwork, and a profile on Tyler Surfboards’ shoprat Josh Gilberts. Look carefully you may even find a couple Davenports floating about.


Check out the DROP ZONE…

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Craigslist is a beautiful thing, isn't it?

 You never know what might turn up. Seems like most of my major life’s decisions are based on what classified ad might just happen to find its way onto my computer screen…jobs, apartments, etc. Anyways, this 9'2" Weber Performer came up and was listed at $100. Okay, so it didn’t look great from the  ad’s photos but it was most definitely worth checking out. After a little email and phone tag the seller of the board basically had somewhere to be at the time that we set up an appointment to see the board. He told us that he would set the board outside and if it could be of any use to us we could have it!
It’s had some serious work on the stringer and a tail block was added on to the board at some point. There’s also the mysterious backwards American flag patch job on the nose. But hey, the price is right and the overall this board is water tight and ready to ride. It will for sure be hittin’ the waves soon for a little  Davenport Longboards research and development.



IGGY!!!

Melissa and I recently went to the Surfboard Collectors Club meet at the California Heritage Museum on Main Street in Santa Monica. They had a couple of rare gems, one board that has been talked about a lot but I have never seen in person is the Dewey Weber Surfboards Harold Iggy Model. Harold Iggy is one of the most under appreciated shapers of our time. He was the head shaper for one Dewey Weber back in the day, he shaped the majority of the Weber Performers, the real Performers, not the lousy rockered boards that we have to deal with today. Back in the 1960’s the Iggy model was way ahead of its time featuring an “S” deck profile, 60/40 rails in the tail and the famous scoop rocker that most 1960’s era Webers are famous for. I was really stoked that another shaper from the glory days of Weber was actually there; Bruce Grant. He was more than generous in his explanation of the board, he has a personal blue pigment rail Iggy model from back in the day. Hopefully I can get my hands on it and take it for a spin.

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