The Shorts--The Lost Art

The Dirtbag Diaries

Duct Tape Then Beer

Sports, Wilderness

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2010

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Surfer. Waves. Design. Surfboard. In 25 years of surfing, Will Ranken never thought much about how those four elements interrelated to one another. When he needed a new board, he would buy one off the racks, hand over the cash, and soon he was paddling into the line up again. That was the status quo, until he read an article about making and shaping wooden surfboards.

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0:00.0	And pull on your wool socks and gather clothes around the fire.
0:11.8	New Belgium Brewing Company toasts to the season with their Belgian inspired glassware, full
0:16.5	of tubelow winter ale, a tasty winter warmer with a hoppy palate.
0:21.7	While the weather outside may be frightful, the beer inside is delightful.
0:26.6	New Belgium encourages you to follow your folly to NewBelgium.com where hoppy sing-alongs,
0:32.2	give a bowl glassware, and cheer can be found.
0:39.0	With additional support from Kuwait Racks in Patagonia, this is the shorts, and you're
0:50.5	listening to The Dirt Bag Daries.
0:58.4	Bondi Beach in Sydney.
1:00.5	It's a 1km stretcher sand on the edge of the biggest city in Australia.
1:03.8	It's basically the Australian version of Venice Beach, lots of people, restaurants, bars
1:09.0	and tourists.
1:10.0	On any sunny weekend, you can't see the sand for all those sun-baking bodies.
1:14.4	I love living here, I can start my day with an early surf catching waves in the dawn
1:19.3	light, and then finish the day with an evening dip.
1:22.7	Coming home from work and seeing the ocean and smelling that salty air, my whole body
1:26.8	breathes out a huge sigh of relief.
1:29.1	A grind of the city and the stress of the day just gets washed away as soon as I dive
1:33.2	into the water.
1:34.9	We call it the Bondi Bubble, because living here, life just seems easier, except when it
1:41.4	comes to surfing.
1:43.1	Basically, it's crowded.
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