AB3 Octafish

Last fall I met Malcolm Campbell at the NY Surf Film Festival. We got to talking and decided to collaborate on a board for the Anything But 3, Anything But 3 East, and NY Fish Fry. Malcolm would shape the board and send it down to Moonlight Glassing in San Marcos. I would fly out to San Diego and paint the board at Moonlight. Then I would bring it to the AB3 in Oceanside, bring it back to Jersey with me and bring it to the AB3 East and NY Fish Fry. We decided on an Octafish. Here are some pics of me working at Moonlight Glassing before the event and the finished board. I have to thank the Moonlight family, Peter, Sally, and JP for their hospitality. They are incredibly nice people and produce what it probably the best glassed boards of any shop in the world. It was an incredible experience to work with them. Peter did his trademarked Falsa Balsa airbrush spray on the bottom and rails that was so good when I first saw the board I thought it was a Firewire. We went with Marlin Bacon's bamboo 101 Fins for the side runners and center fin. They are super light with an incredible flex pattern and when you have a board with as many fins as a bonzer it pays to have light fins. The board looked amazing even before I laid my posca pens on it. I was painting so frantically to get the board done that I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked, but here's what I got.