Discover the innovative surfboard collaboration between Hughes Surfboards and Verdue, where sustainable materials meet high-performance design. Luke shares his surprise at crafting a board that combines natural materials like hemp, cork, and paulownia wood, delivering durability, flexibility, and an eco-friendly footprint without sacrificing the ride.
To quad, or not to quad? That is one of the big questions these days with five box fin set-ups becoming the norm. So when should you chuck your rear fin and go for a quad set-up?
Experimenting with fins can open up a whole new realm of possibilities with your equipment, the right fin combination can bring the best out of your board.
In part three of Fin School, we talk fin variations and experimentation, and how switching up your fins can improve your performance.
Before Hughes Surfboards, there was Wave Graffitti.
Wave Graffitti was established in the 80’s over in Ulladulla, NSW, where the late Craig Hughes – our old man and Raglan Surf Co founder, was living at the time, surfing and shaping surfboards.
Inspired by the graffiti movement and under the moniker of Wave Graffitti, Craig’s boards took on a life of their own, with his hand drawn bold graphics, fluro sprays and that unforgettable skate grunge vibe.
We happened across this board on TradeMe a few weeks ago and couldn't pass it up... it almost slipped through our fingers but luckily we shared a bit of our story with the seller and got this piece of history back in our hands.
In this yarn, I was invited to sit with Larry Fisher (aka Lazza Fish), Teacher and Surf Coach at Raglan Surf Academy, and Luke Hughes from Hughes Surfboards as they went through the motions of designing a new custom board (or three). A fly on the wall with a fish on the couch, shall we say. While I may have omitted most of that in this first part – and a few other gruntings from Mike the Builder about a new paddle-tracking app on his Apple Watch – I did find out a bit about how the world’s biggest grommet became generations of grommets’ favourite role model.
