Big Sky Limited Very Special Surfboards

Scooters For PeaceでのDOGS展での展示が終わり現在RIDEで展示中の３本をご紹介いたします。

この３本の特別なBig Sky Limitedレーベルの板はAndrew Kidmanがシェイプし、Peter Moschogianisがラミネートしました。

左右の板のボトムにはMichele Lockwoodによるペイントが施され、Larry Gephart氏によるPlywood Finには何とBarry McGeeのハンドペイントが施されています。Litmusに登場するSkip Frye FishのレプリカボードにはFinにDerek Hynd氏のサインも入ります。また、Balackの板はBarry McGeeによるグラフィックロゴがラミネートされています。この３本のスペシャルなアートボードは只今RIDEにて展示販売中です。二つとない特別で価値ある板。機会がございましたらぜひ店頭にてご覧ください。

価格などにつきましてはRIDEまでお問い合わせください。

またこの３本の板に関するコメントがAndrewから以下のように届きました。併せてぜひご覧ください。

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Red and Black Edge Diamond Tail.

6’1’ Six one, Diamond Tail, Single Fin, Edge Board. 

Hand shaped by Andrew Kidman. 

Glassed, pigmented, sanded and polished by Peter Moschogianis. 

Dog and Big Sky graphic by Barry McGee

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Dark Red Wine Fish

5’10” Replica Fish of the Skip Frye Fish Derek Hynd rode in the film Litmus. 

Hand shaped by Andrew Kidman; the board features the original sized plywood keels hand foiled by the fin maker that made the original Litmus keels – Larry Gephart. 

The Keels are signed by Derek Hynd and feature a Big Sky Dog painting by Barry McGee. 

Glassed, tinted, sanded and polished by Peter Moschogianis.

The artwork on the bottom of the board is by Michele Lockwood.

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Blue “Green”  Twin Pin Edge

6’9” Replica of Green from the film On the Edge of a Dream. 

Hand Shaped by Andrew Kidman. 

Glassed, tinted, sanded and polished by Peter Moschogianis.

The high aspect plywood fins are hand foiled by Larry Gephart and feature a Dog painting by Barry Mcgee. 

The artwork on the bottom of the board is by Michele Lockwood. 

My goal on Green is to ride it like a gannet glides the updraft of a swell. It seems with the Edge boards the more you are tuned into the wave and the waterline the better they perform, the less you try to force yourself on the board and the wave, the faster and more responsive they are. It’s something very subtle but incredibly rewarding.

Green and I have travelled to many places: Iceland, The East and West Coasts of America, Japan. It’s been surfed by many people on these journeys and exhibited at numerous screenings of On the Edge of A Dream.

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Barry McGee painted Green shortly after I shaped it when he was staying at our house in March 2016. It was the first time I’d collaborated with Barry; he’s a longtime friend of my partner Michele Lockwood, and so Barry painted “Mish” and “Ank” on one of the Gephart fins, which are our nicknames.

Since then I have collaborated with Barry on many projects. He did the artwork for the On the Edge of a Dream book and film project, he’s contributed art to Acetone Magazine, he did the artwork for the Big Sky Limited book, we worked closely together on the DOGS magazine and more recently I sent Barry a box of assorted Gephart wooden fins to paint on. With these fins I intend to make eight surfboards. Currently there are three in existence. A traditional Fish and replica Green were exhibited in May at the Scooters for Peace gallery in Japan; these two boards are currently being housed at Ride Surf and Sport.