243 – Jeff Timpone

Surf Splendor

David Lee Scales

Sports

4.8 • 653 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2018

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Jeff Timpone has been building surfboards for 50 years. Not only is he one of the world’s most experienced shapers, he’s also on the cutting edge of sustainable surfboard manufacturing. In today’s show Jeff discusses his moral conflict about leaving California to surf Hawaii during the Vietnam draft. He reflects on early experiences with iconic … Continue reading "243 – Jeff Timpone" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thank you.
0:02.0	I'm
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0:07.0	I'm
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0:13.0	. Hey, what's up?
0:36.2	Welcome back to the show.
0:37.3	I'm recording this intro from my hotel room in Savannah, Georgia, about to head to Charleston and then on to Wilmington and then the Outer Banks. I recorded a series of podcasts while I was in Florida at the Florida Surf Film Festival, one with Derek Hind, which includes, I mean, undoubtedly the greatest 20 minutes of audio
0:58.1	that I've ever recorded. Derek's storytelling is unparalleled. The episode is actually two hours,
1:04.1	but there's a 20 to 30 minute segment in there that is just jaw dropping. So look forward to
1:09.5	that. Then I did a interview, kind of co-interview with Marcus Sanders.
1:13.8	He and I interviewed Momentum Generation filmmaker Michael Zimbalist.
1:18.7	Then I got to interview a few surfboard shapers, Matt Keckley, Bruce Reagan from Quiet
1:24.5	Flight, Ricky Carroll, and then I'm going to cap off the series with
1:28.4	CJ Hobgood. So that Florida series will be released in about a month. You can look forward to that.
1:34.9	Today's show was recorded on Maui. And there's a really kind of much richer story to tell
1:40.3	about Maui than what I'm going to do here. I would love to do a series on that island
1:45.3	because there's just so much richness, such characters, such variety of waves. Lahaina was the
1:51.7	capital of Hawaii from 1820 to 1845, so there's political history there. It's just a really
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