Casey’s Blog:
Say hello to “The Red Barron” this is my latest creation out of the board room. It is a performance Windsurfing Foil board. Specs are 6’6″ x 29 1/4″ x 4 3/4″ @ 16lb. This board is made to fly like a jet, with everything designed just for foiling in mind. Check it out!
Casey’s Blog:
Wow what a year, 2016 is definitely going down as one of the most fun years in history. It was the windiest year I can ever remember on Da reef and no summer breeze stuff either, when the wind was up it was nuking. I accomplished my goal of 100 days in the waves with ease this year, and also got to surf all 12 months because of the nice warm el-nino winter. Looking back year after year It still blows my mind that you can surf 100+ days on the great lakes and Da reef every year. In common logic that shit doesn’t supposed to happen, but with the right mindset and lifestyle its so doable, Heck I work 6 days a week and I can pull it off no problem, obviously. Hopefully 2017 is a repeat, Life is Good. Now to Da stats!
2016
109-Total play days! (12 months)
105-days – Total wave surfing! (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
78-days Windsurfing (5.7 & smaller)
8-days Kitesurfing (12m & 8m)
15-days Sup/prone surfing
4-days Wind Sup in waves
0-days Snowkiteing (No snow year)
4-Days skiing
10-days Scoring waves in Hatteras
Best day on the reef– Oct 29th (Everyone was there)
Best month-July( at 17 days its back on top, been a while)
Best SUP ride –Solo glassy session @ H-Bay in Dec.
Best new toy- Windsurfing/Sup Foil.
Past years
2015-101 total play days, 93 total wave days (windsurfing/kite/SUP/surfing)
2014-83 total play days. 75 total wave days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2013-95 total play days. 93 total wave days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2012-124 total play days. 119 total wave days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2011-129 total play days 93 total wave days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2010-144 total play days 104 total wave days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2009-102 total play days 42 total wave days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2008-100 total play days 40 total wave days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2007-83 total play days 36 total play days (windsurf/kite/SUP/surfing)
2016 Monthly break down
JAN) 2-Windsurf
FEB) 2-Windsurf
MARCH) 1-Kitesurf, 5-Windsurf, 1-Sup Wave, 1-WindSup
APRIL) 3-Windsurf, 1-Windsup, 1-Sup Wave
MAY) 5-Windsurf,1-Sup Wave
JUNE) 10-Windsurf, 1-Wind Sup, 2-Kitesurf
JULY) 16-Windsurf, 1-Kitesurf
AUG) 10-Windsurf, 2-Sup Wave, 2-Kitesurf
SEP) 4-Windsurf, 1-Kitesurf, 6-Sup Wave
OCT) 7-Windsurf, 1-Windsup, 2- Sup Wave
NOV) 1-Sup Wave, 7-Windsurf
DEC) 7-Windsurf, 1-Sup Wave, 1-Kitesurf
That’s it! Time to do it all over again. HIT THE LIP
Happy New Year Reef Warriors!
Cheers to 2015, and bring on 2016. Long live the Reef Warrior spirit!
We got a chance to try “Clement Select Barrel” turns out to be some top shelf Rum. We have tried many rums or Rhum as they say it, from the island of Martinique and this one tops them all. Very smooth with some fruity notes, very very tasty. best enjoyed neat or on the rocks. If you run into this rum! get it.
Casey’s Blog:
Yup you read the title correct, and finally Da Reef will have custom boards to call her own. I have been chained up in the “Board room” all winter, Sipping rum and Mixing epoxy or maybe it’s the other way around? Either way I have completed 3 different Kitesurf models totaling 4 boards. My goal was to create high performance lightweight Kitesurf boards, as with any kind of board I am going to create. So far I am very happy with the results.
I have been riding Kitesurf boards for over 10 years now and I have never ever really been stoked with any board I tried or have owned in that category Kite/Surf/Wake/ect. Thus I had lots of ideas and inspirations floating around my head to make them perform better. Plus I wanted to start off building small instead of big projects like SUP boards, which is up next in the board room. Hint Hint.
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