10 – HWS
Day10 – May 9, 2009
(above) In the early morning….The view from my
room…Far away through the thick, damp air, the surf has grown overnight…
(above) France does get some bigger waves…Today we
have the second day of the workshop, so for now I can only mind surf these…Sometimes
work must come first…
(above) Back in the shop…Everything is looking really great…
(above) The clean up crew has obviously been here…Give
the Australian’s their names…
(above) 10:00 am…Back where we left off…
(above) These “hands-on” pictures best summarize the
collaborative feeling in these wood board workshops… 
(above) As things looked when we stopped for lunch…
(above) The sun
was out, the grill was hot, the beer was cold…
(above) Another time to share food, drink, stories…
(above) One of the guys brought his self designed
thin plywood paddleboard…Fantastic transitional curves…
(above) 12’ of fast wood…I’m really impressed…
(above) Guilhem pulls out this board…
(above) Cedar strips inlaid into the deck…
(above) Custom inlaid resin nose and tail
blocks…Guilhem does it all…Design, shaping, color, inlays, glassing,
everything…Back in the States he would have a following as big as any of the big
names…No doubt he has the skills…
(above) Lunch now over, the rail are being put on…
(above) Collaboration…They
got the rails about 80% done when we stopped for the night…
(above) The night
sky…
(above) An
Atlantic storm roared through with a bang…
(above) Another
day done…Bon soire…
More later …
Paul