The Cocoa Beach Surf Museum will host the opening of our new exhibit at the Easter Eggstravaganza on April 19th from 6:30-10pm. This exhibit explores the history and evolution of paipo riding and its relevance to surf culture. The exhibit will include a display of paipos spanning nearly 100 years. Come out and enjoy food, drink and music by the Aquanuts. Cost is $20. Museum members get in free. For more info call 321-537-2045.

Paipo Exhibit

Logjammer would have loved to see that!!

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What an awesome idea for an exhibit!  Very cool!

My first thoughts were of Logjammer when I saw the post.
I'm sure he is smiling about this exhibit.

RIP Chris








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Edited: 04/07/2014 at 05:39 AM by SunriseSurfer

I'm sure there will be many memories of Chris shared during the exhibit opening. This exhibit should be popular with the younger generation who are getting into handplanes, surf mats, and retro boards as well as the long time surfers who loved to watch George Greenough.

Two of Logjammer's paipo boards will be on-loan in the exhibit, a wood and the other a foam & glass fish paipo. Chris, known as "Tumak" on the paipo-related forums, will be present in spirit

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Here is just a little preview or the coolness to come. Two Laguna style paipos fresh from California courtesy of Jeff Qam. One, a high performance EPS/epoxy. The other a chambered balsa classic.

Oh this is gonna be a killer exhibit!  Stoked to see these things!

Cosmic post. Thanks for sharing Melody!

Hope you can make it to the opening, R-man.

Meet Melbourne local Dave Tomasetti the inventor of the amazing WaveWing at Saturday night's Easter Extravaganza. Check it out... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWelMK2vaf8

Caught Dave in action a while back....


Back in Dec 2012

Quote from "big rick" back then...

"wow
i'd actually like to see video of this in action"


...and now you can

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He's kept it up and looks to have made progress
pic from Dec 2012...












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Edited: 04/14/2014 at 05:23 PM by SunriseSurfer

Here is a sneak peek of the upcoming Paipo-Prone to Ride exhibit.

Edited: 04/16/2014 at 05:40 PM by surfersensei

Thanks for the pics!

Awesome!  This is going to be very cool!

Not sure of what to make of the things people are holding....  

Heritage photo, 13 December 1939, from the Auckland Weekly News.  

Libraries Heritage Images, Auckland Council.

(update in response to surfersensei, below:  water temperature was likely in the 60s.  Surf-forecast.com).  Great to see that there'll be some boards like these at the exhibit.  

Edited: 04/17/2014 at 09:41 AM by ww

And I thought my board had a square tail...

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"It's always better than it looks from the crossover."

Those folks are riding wood bellyboards typical of the period. We have a couple of examples in the exhibit. BTW the water temperature in that area is probably in the mid 50's :-0