Grain Surfboards Tour Update: Cape Fear Wooden Boat Festival
August 5th, 2007, by Brad
Last weekend we set up at the 2007 Wooden Boat Festival in the shade of a big tree on the lawn of Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, NC where they have a boatbuilding education program. We were able to hang boards from the branches of the trees just like Ty’s design on our T-shirts!
The Wrightsville area surf scene is alive and well just a few miles from Wilmington – and all the friendly people there seemed pumped to talk about the boards. Ed Verge, the director of the CFCC boatbuilding program told us that his students have built hollow and solid wood surfboards in the past – and would be interested in building kits during their time in the program.
Pictured right to left here are the 5-10 Waka, the 6-5 Seed (in profile), and a 9-0 experimental shape fresh out of the “Grain Labs”. My brother’s broken longboard on the ground in front of the table helped answer questions about the durability of Grain boards compared to foam.
The Grain Surfboards Summer Tour continues… check back to the Builder’s Blog for updates.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:13 am
i live in wilmington but wasnt in town when the boat show was held my dad builds wooden boats and he and i are working on a 6′ wherry right now its an amazing looking board even right now unfinished cant wait til its done keep up the good work grain
August 7th, 2007 at 2:47 am
Too bad to miss you in Wilmington… send pics of the Wherry when you are done!
August 8th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
I would have loved to have come down and checked out your boards while you were in the carolinas. A friend of mine linked me to your site and I am loving the boards and would love to actually check out the shop sometime. It turns out that one of the guys in our surf group was one of the first guys to make a hollow board in the school.