Huge thanks to everyone …

Well the jour­ney of the Earth­quake Surf­board has now had a happy end­ing.  We wanted to thank every­one for the sup­port and well wishes over the past few weeks.

We were amazed at the unfold­ing events of the auc­tion.  This resulted in hav­ing 9974 hits on Trademe with over 100 peo­ple watch­ing the auc­tion, which far exceeded all of our expec­ta­tions.  The final bid was $2061.00 NZD, which will be mak­ing its way to the Red Cross.

The win­ner of the Earth­quake Surf­board and hand­made wall racks is a Cantabrian surfer.  It is pretty fan­tas­tic to think the board will go to some­one who has per­sonal attach­ment to the City of Christchurch.

We are eter­nally grate­ful to those in the surf­ing com­mu­nity both in New Zealand and inter­na­tion­ally who embraced this cause.  It was also hum­bling to get so many heart­felt mes­sages from those peo­ple who told us they were not from a surf­ing back­ground, their sen­ti­ments expressed to us greatly con­tributed to the sig­nif­i­cance of the Earth­quake Board.

Once again we wanted to thank everyone!!

Video of 6’3″ Balsa Earthquake Surfboard

Check-out the video of the 6’3″ Balsa Fish­for the Red Cross donation:

http://www.youtube.com/user/SeventhwaveWetsuits#p/u/6/Zbcjqw8l2Nk

Huge thanks to the awe­some guys at Sev­en­th­wave Wet­suits for putting this together for us.

The board is cur­rently on Trademe … so have a look!

Auction now live: 6’3” Balsa Fish for Red Cross Christchurch Earthquake Appeal

The auc­tion has now offi­cially started for the Earth­quake Board on Trademe.

Don’t for­get the clos­ing time for the auc­tion is Mon 16 May, 8:22 pm (New Zealand Stan­dard Time)

Fin­gers crossed, we hope there are some gen­er­ous peo­ple out there that want to help our heal­ing City and in return get them­selves a one off collector’s item.

The story of the Earth­quake board can be found in our recent posts.

Full photo gallery of the mak­ing can be seen on Face­book.

Happy bid­ding.

Thanks once again for every­one spread­ing the word, we are so grate­ful to you all.

Jay and Han Jackman

6’3” Balsa Fish Finished for Red Cross Christchurch Appeal

I’m excited to say the 6’3” Balsa Fish Earth­quake Dona­tion Board is now fin­ished.  I am really happy with the way it has turned out.

6’3″ Balsa Fish in Tim­ber Wall Racks

Our busi­ness was only a mat­ter of a few kilo­me­tres from the quake epi­cen­tre on Feb­ru­ary 22nd.  Our fac­tory is now being held up by tem­po­rary tim­ber fram­ing whilst other adja­cent build­ings are now red stick­ered or have been demolished.

Just to recap, I have shaped a tim­ber surf­board, bas­ing the design on our most pop­u­lar local model.  The tim­bers used for the main shape of the board are South Amer­i­can Balsa, renowned in the surf­ing com­mu­nity as a craftsman’s wood of choice.  The cen­tre stringers and fins are tim­bers from a demol­ished fac­tory that once stood right behind our own.  The board is 6’3” in length, to rep­re­sent the 6.3mag quake that changed a lot of lives.  On the stringer near the tail, I have sprayed a design to rep­re­sent the view when sit­ting in the waves look­ing west to the moun­tains of our region.  These are in the red and black of Canterbury.

Length: 6’3”

Width: 21 7/8”

Thick­ness: 2 7/8”

I have hand made some rimu wall racks to be included (like in photo), so the board can be displayed.

The board is now in the show­room for the next week for those who are able to come and have a look.  The auc­tion on Trademe will begin on Mon­day 9^th May 2011.  All money from the auc­tion will be donated to the Red Cross Christchurch Earth­quake Appeal.

Set­ting Fins                                                                                   Final Gloss Coat

Unfor­tu­nately there have been many rum­bles since we first started our project and they just still keep on com­ing.  This has only con­tin­ued to remind me of the impor­tance of mak­ing this board.

We can now thank­fully ven­ture back to our local beaches, just in time to put on our hoods and booties for the win­ter swell.

Even though it feels like Christchurch is slowly putting itself back together, I hear of many peo­ple still strug­gling on a daily basis to get back to some sense of nor­mal­ity.   I hope this board in some way goes to help­ing alle­vi­ate this.

I wanted to thank you all for fol­low­ing our jour­ney in mak­ing the Earth­quake Board.  Your sup­port and encour­ag­ing com­ments have been really appre­ci­ated.   Fin­gers crossed we get some gen­er­ous bids.

We also con­tinue to think of all those peo­ple fac­ing uncer­tainty in Japan.  Our thoughts are still with you.

Very Shiny Tim­ber Goodness!!