Solid piece of Houn pine (endemic Tasmanian timber) no longer used as a keel from an old sailing dinghy.

Now, sculptured into a Japanese bellyboard called an 'Itago-nori' meaning 'floorboard riding'.

Dimensions: 1100 x 260 x 12mm

Huon pine windowsill was gifted from a friend, during a renovation of their suburban house in Hobart.

Milled & sculptured into an Itago-nori, with the capillary groove still exposed.

This piece was re-gifted.

Dimensions: 1135 x 375 x 12mm

Asymmetric twin fin with a thin Houn pine nose cap.

Fin design, based on a Peregrine Falcon's tucked wing during maximum speed.

This board was donated to the 'Southwest Marine Debris Cleanup' team, an insane group of volunteers cleaning up Tasmania's remote coastline.

Dimensions: 1750 x 540 x 18mm

Gifting this board to our local surf community to strengthen connections & grow culture.

To learn & understand these creations, is to be guided by the crafts ability to surf closer to the wave's energy, connecting on an entirely different level. As 'the surfer', great agility and focus is directed towards nose-tail & rail-rail flex, whilst intuitively feeling the fin flex.

Dimensions: 1800 x 550 x 18mm

As ocean people we are deeply and intuitively connected to the natural rhythms of Mother Earth. We rethink our connection to materials, movement and environment constantly.

The following board is an adaptation to a particular coastal environment, with its place-based interrelatedness to waves, currents and wind patterns.

Dimensions: 1840 x 510 x 16mm