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Hope it arrived without hick-ups, after recent problems... how bad is the cover ? is it beyond help ???

All Good Priddy, Slowy's missus dropped the board to my place this morning - Good on you Billie, you're a champ.

I've cleaned the wax off and cleaned the board up, given it a light 1200 wet and dry sand, and just finished putting the final touches to the artwork. I'll get a few pics up soon.

Board bag isn't in such bad shape, the zipper doesn't work, but I'll see if I can fix it.

great stuff, can't wait to see your artwork...thanks alot to Slowly and his missus for their efforts and assistance. SDC, are you up to a bit of an interview with the Manly paper ? ....any plans to do some pics with Butts ??? I am stoked its in Sydney, now we just have to pass it around to all who are keen to have a few surfs on it......

Planning


Painting


Finished - Time for a coldie

Great art work SDC, wish I had of dropped off my shorty as well for some work!! PS thanks for the "surf decals" T-shirt, nice little suprise.

I will pass on a few pics to Mark to put up on his site, in short I only got two short surfs on the Bat, as it took 2 days for the ding repair, then the surf got to about 6 foot and the Bat was struggling at maxing Merewether. But would love to have surfed it in smaller conditions as it had plenty of speed and was very bouyant while still responsive..well done Mark on a shape that had to accomodate a lot of various people. It renewed my outlook on my fish/shorty hybrid..so cleaned off the wax and fixed a ding ready for the next swell drop.

Hope all get good waves on the board, and the ding repair holds up..PS there is still a little meat left on the tail is someone else wants to refine the Bat tail and sand it down.
Cheers Ben

thanks for the artwork and it looks great..also thanks for the repair job Slowly...cant wait to see what happens next and look forward to the feedback and pics ....who's surfing it next ???

pridmore wrote:thanks for the artwork and it looks great..also thanks for the repair job Slowly...cant wait to see what happens next and look forward to the feedback and pics ....who's surfing it next ???

i will...
away next satdi again, but maybe sunday?
im not sure ill just wait in line, have a go when butts has it?

Loco4olas,

Can you contact me regarding the board bag for the Aqua Bat

info at surfdecals.com

Cheers

Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue... well aqua

Today’s Manly Daily page 9...

The boardbag hasnt been arranged due to the guy not getting back to me, the company has gone bust...so looks like we need a new board bag, does anybody have a good second handy they want to sell or donate..If not , SDC can I forward you some $ to pick one up ??? I am guessing the other one is beyond help ??? cheers and thanks....

Will ask Butts about boardbag now that he has it...

Thanks for doin the story SDC and cheers for posting it Rv...looks pretty good ....

MP, caught up with SDC this morning at Mona for a few pics.
Grabbed a couple, couditions not the best but SDC managed to show what it could do.
Too small for water shots unfortunately, we'll get those this weekend me thinks

Board is now in my jallopy, will get a serious hit out this weekend.
I'll send through some pics a little later

SDC, very impressive job on the artwork Great to catch up with you this morning

Good to catch you Butts, and have some fun on the Bat.

SDC wrote:Good to catch you Butts, and have some fun on the Bat.

Did ya pat him on the head Benny Hill style, SDC?

ric_vidal wrote:

SDC wrote:Good to catch you Butts, and have some fun on the Bat.

Did ya pat him on the head Benny Hill style, SDC?

I can hear the music now...

ric_vidal wrote:

SDC wrote:Good to catch you Butts, and have some fun on the Bat.

Did ya pat him on the head Benny Hill style, SDC?

Nah, he was too quick

Butts wrote:Board is now in my jallopy..

let me know if you need a jump start ... I wouldn't mind checking it out myself ... now that I'm a crash test dummy ...