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Welcome to the Sea Dragon Surfboards website/blog. I've been shaping boards for a number of years now and, although I'm more than happy to carve out the odd standard short board now and then, I'm really most interested in exploring the capabilities, both in terms of aesthetics and performance, of what's commonly known as 'alternative' designs. Hence, I don't really hold with the model-based shaping philosophy, and no two boards coming out of the Sea Dragon Surfboards shed will ever be exactly the same. If you want to get a custom board shaped, get in contact and I'll happily discuss with you exactly what you want out of it. Board building and design is, at its core, a collaboration between the shaper and the rider, and it's this aspect of the business that really gets my creative juices flowing.

Latest Posts

Templates 101
Template – The Phoenix
A guide to cutting & blending rail bands
Space filler
A note on the shaper’s toolkit
Template for a 6’5″ Single Fin
Testing – board, fins and personal limits

Latest Posts

Templates 101
Template – The Phoenix
A guide to cutting & blending rail bands
Space filler
A note on the shaper’s toolkit
Template for a 6’5″ Single Fin
Testing – board, fins and personal limits

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Inspiration

Andrew Kidman
Ben Chipper Creations
Dave Parmenter; Shaper, raconteur and all-round style master
Gerry Wedd, Surframic Artist
Huck's Hollow Wood Surfboards
Liquid Salt Magazine
Lucky Bastards
Nathan Oldfield's Blog
Neal Purchase Designs
Peter Walker Surfboards
Royal Surfboards
Surfy Surfy
The Swallowtail Society
Windy's Seahab
Words by Tim Baker

Surf-related Links

18 Seconds
Coastalwatch
Surfing World Magazine
Swaylock's
Swellnet

Inspiration

Andrew Kidman
Ben Chipper Creations
Dave Parmenter; Shaper, raconteur and all-round style master
Gerry Wedd, Surframic Artist
Huck's Hollow Wood Surfboards
Liquid Salt Magazine
Lucky Bastards
Nathan Oldfield's Blog
Neal Purchase Designs
Peter Walker Surfboards
Royal Surfboards
Surfy Surfy
The Swallowtail Society
Windy's Seahab
Words by Tim Baker

Custom orders? Email me...

seadragon.surf@internode.on.net

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Social Media has to be good for something and the #FightfortheBight is an issue too important to ignore. We need to do everything we can to stop @equinor’s plans to drill for oil in the Bight. It has the potential to directly impact millions of coastal dwelling Australians and, apart from the human cost, the catastrophic effect that a spill from this operation would have on marine and coastal ecosystems, from single-celled organisms right through to the largest living creature on the planet, far outweighs any economic benefits that it might deliver. It’s madness to think that anyone would even consider expanding the fossil fuel industry in this day and age, when we’re facing an already uncertain climatic future. Not only are they proposing just that, but they want to do it in a location that is a) a unique, diverse and pristine ecosystem, and b) one of the roughest, most perilous ocean regions on the planet, which regularly experiences wind and swell conditions that would terrify even the saltiest of seadogs. The potential impacts of the seismic testing that will precede any actual drilling should be enough to rule the project out. But it seems that they’re going to be given the green light to set off massive explosions of sound for months on end in a world-renowned Southern Right Whale nursery, right in the middle of their calving season. Madness! Before Shell abandoned their plans to explore the Bight, they made a submission to the government regulator that clearly stated that, given the complexity of the project because of location and oceanic conditions, it would represent “negligible” employment prospects for local communities or the Australian population more broadly. So there’s not even an argument for job creation. Even if it were to employ a few locals, the numbers would pale into insignificance against the tens, perhaps even hundreds of thousands in the fishing, tourism and other coastal industries whose livelihoods would be wiped out by a spill from the proposed well. If you are concerned about any or all aspects of this proposal, I urge you to write to the people who have influence over it and tell them, in no uncertain terms, that you oppose it.

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