Tom Blake Hollow Surfboard Plan T shirt

Tom Blake Hollow Surfboard Plan T shirt

$30.00
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As far as influence goes, you would be hard pressed to find anyone with more contributuions to a culture - surfing in particular - than Tom Blake. Aside from having impecable taste in very large surfcraft, he is credited as being the first person to put a fin on a board, first to attach a sail to a board - basically inventing windsurfing - one of the first to create a  functional water housing for a camera (73 years before Go Pro), and one of the first to experiment with building lightweight surfboards. In fact, Blakes hollow surfboard plan was published in a four page article etitled Riding the Breakers! in the July 1937 edition of Popular Mechanics Magazine. Years ago I was able to scrounge up a copy and always thought that the plans were a piece of art on their own. Recently, I was looking through my book shelves when I came across the magazine and had another look at the article. It's such an awesome image that I decided to re draw the plans and put them on a T shirt. Fun fact.

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