PCC Mini Simmons – Sydney Surfboards

Fast and Bulbous

Stuart Paterson — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 05:58:13 +0000

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85xSf7SrXEA[/youtube]

THATS RIGHT THE MASCARA SNAKE, FAST AND BULBOUS

With much anticipated excitement we are about to reveal the brand new PCC Mini Simmons construction video as soon as next Wednesday. The above embedded snip is just a couple of seconds taken from the very end of the video, giving you a glimpse of the board shape, artwork and overall feel. This has been a fun project documenting many interesting aspects of our board construction for video in the PCC board factory. Alex Tracy has done a fantastic job of shooting and editing, as you will notice in the full video.

The chosen music comes from the late great Captain Beefheart, who’s sounds have inspired many souls over many decades of creative time, Fast and Bulbous seems to fit the bill.

Tune in next week.

SP.

PCC Mini Simmons The Aubergine

Stuart Paterson — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 19:49:59 +0000

The Mini Simmons has been gaining interest and momentum recently on the east coast. These ultra fast, fun to ride planing hulls have been popping up more and more around the local surf breaks. In these few shots we see Dave “Cabbo” Halyard getting his first new feelings of his new Simmons experience at Sandshoes and Wanda Beach, Cronulla. The board Cabbo is riding is 5 foot 5 inches by 21 1/4 inches wide stringer-less polyurethane blank. Coated with an aubergine tinted polyester resin, fitted with twin fin FCS keels.

I have in my possession a similar board to this one in the pictures except my version is made of styrofoam and epoxy coating. I have been catching up with Dave frequently enquiring about his experiences on the new hull. In his words Cabbo relates “this is so fast and so much fun, it is unreal I can’t get off it” which brings excitement to my mind as I know what he is feeling through my own sessions.

It is great to relate and share the feeling the mini Simmons brings to your surfing, I hope I get the opportunity to share the feeling with other enthusiasts. There are a couple of these babies in my shop if one would like to view a new one or test ride my used version.

The Mini Simmons has been added under Board menu

Stuart Paterson — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 02:37:51 +0000

In 1949 Bob Simmons was recommended while in hospital to try surfing as a form of relaxation and recovery and general health.

Being an inventive type who liked to come up with ideas for doing things his own way, Bob started to think about surf riding. Having a brother who was involved with the quest to put man on the moon, Bob had access to another inventive brain and the latest technology available to mankind at the time. Bob had styrofoam. At that time, remembering it is 1949, surfboards were very crude and almost unridable craft that were built like a skiff or long canoe with an enclosed top made from ply wood.

Bob designed the Planning Hull, shaped from a block of styrofoam and commenced riding it around his home breaks around Southern California. This is where and how the folkloric Mini Simmons surf design was born.

After only one year of riding his innovative creations, tragically for Mr Simmons, his family and the direction of modern surf design. Bob Simmons drowned at a famous point break while surfing alone in solid swell. Three days after Mr Simmons was reported as missing his body was found washed up at the waters edge near to where the shack at Windansea now stands.

This board and others I have produced are an adaptation toward the original Bob Simmons design. Incorporated into this design are aspects of my own design work and board making experience which covers 28 years of my life. I have also used materials that are a derivative of insulation in the building trade, Les Paul guitar construction and high end boat hull construction. The core is hand shaped from a 4 inch block extruded poly styrene, glassed in high quality epoxy resin and tinted with dies used to colour lacquer in the finishing of vintage guitars. The fins are hand shaped from Canadian flamed maple, the same timbre used in classic Les Paul guitar tops and violin construction. These boards are unique to say the least, a conglomerate of my passions in life and craft pursuits to date in life.

Above all else, the enjoyment and completion of the experience is in the ride.