Look Over Your Shoulder Thursday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

Warning:  Fiesta Hermosa starts Saturday (#1), but NO Parking starts TOMORROW!  That means parking out in front of Brothers will NOT be happening.  So if you are wishing to surf the pier in the morning, you will have to park on 10th St. or somewhere other than the usual spots...  Look, it's twice a year.  As Capitán Donaldo says, "No biggie."

Cloudy this morning with light drizzle and 3.5miles visibility.  Winds were steady onshore at 6.3kts and the sea surface had a definite bump.  The air was 57.3 and the water was 60.1.  High tide was at 6:24am +4.2' and low tide follows at 12:33pm +0.4'.  We have an oblique swell out of the SSW from 203º at 3.6' and it was 2' to 3' with some thick, bumpy outsiders...

Mr. Christian (Stutzman)'s graduation party was at the playground of the surfers, Doheny Beach.  Right across from the festivities, everyone parked their blades at "Barahona Park." (#2)  Surf was actually fun, considering it was smallish and a few minutes between sets...

#3 is the iconic "Hap Jacobs Surfboards" logo.  We've always wondered about how that oft repeated diamond came about.  We say oft repeated because it's been ripped off on untold other brands of surfboards (Bear etc.) and other beach related merch.  So as luck would have it, we ran into Hap in Jose's shaping bay (where they were getting ready to rip into a 10' long glued up balsa and redwood plank) and asked him!  This is how it went:

The Professor:  Hey Hap how did the diamond logo come about?  It's so great you see it used all over the place now...
Hap Jacobs:     Yeah, it was pretty successful.
José Barahona:  Yeah, he should get royalties for all the people who've used that design.
TP:  Did you design it or was it something you and Velzy came up with?
HJ:  No, it was my design.  When Velzy and I worked together we used an oval with our names in it.  Actually, the first time I saw something like it was
       at a shopping area that had a bunch of stores in it.  It was before malls or anything like that, but outside it had this big diamond with the names of
       all the stores inside the diamond.  I thought that looked pretty good, so I went home and drew up my own version!

See you at the Hermosa Festival!
✠
"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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