Texas Women. Texas Waves. At the Texas Surf Museum.

(This is a little late, wish we could have had this up so all of ya’ll could have made it to Corpus to party with us)

Female surfers haven’t always gotten the respect they deserve – neither on Texas shores nor on beaches around the world. Too often, women have been depicted simply as props in surf culture, as bikini chicks sitting on the beach, looking pretty and not much more.

The Texas Surf Museum in Corpus Christi aims to set the record straight, at least where female surfers from the Lone Star State are concerned, with a major new exhibit titled Texas Women. Texas Waves, opening on Friday, June 6, 2008.

Texas women including Tippy Kelley, Julie Polansky, Grace Knowles and Karen MacKay have won more national titles in the annual United States Surfing Championships than have their male counterparts since the contest began in 1959. And competition hasn’t been the only way women have made their marks on the Texas surfing scene.

Kathryn Williamson-Mayfield of Houston (BJ’s mom and spiritual mother to hundeds of grom’s back in the day) established some of the state’s first surf shops in the early 1960s. Mary Goldsmith of Port Aransas spearheaded the successful drive during the late 1990s to legalize surfing next to Horace Caldwell Pier, a prime spot for waves.

Rachel Gore of South Padre Island made headlines in 2004 when she and her husband, Gene, paddled a surfboard the entire 404-mile length of the Texas coast in 19 days to raise money for the Surfrider Foundation Texas Chapter’s Respect the Ocean program, which teaches school children about protecting and preserving the ocean environment.

Texas Women. Texas Waves. will include surfboards, memorabilia, videos and dozens of photos and written profiles related to Texas women surfers of today and yesterday, young and old, from throughout the state.

Buy some cool new shirts with our logo on it!

Can’t deny it. Our favorite clothes are t-shirts.
Everybody loves a worn-in t-shirt.
The older it is, the better it wears.
And if it has a cool logo that you can personally relate to, all the better.
(Any old Weber or Hobie shirts still being worn?)
So since everybody needs a t-shirt with a cool logo on it, we have created a few t-shirts for you to buy. There’s the new BJ’s Surf Shop logo on dark shirts and also available are Williamson and Co shirts on white, a hat and even a mug.

We have opened an online shop - just click the picture of the t-shirts.

You are gonna look good in that new shirt!

We thank you in advance for the free advertising.

Pavones

Here is an awesome shot of an unidentified rider at Pavones in Costa Rica, sent to us last week by the wymanator. He also adds, “…if any one of u can find a better wave i wanna go…”.

Someone suggested G-Land, Java, Indonesia. Looks intense…

BJ shows you how to shape an EPS blank

Thought this would be worth mentioning here. Carl Christensen created a nice DVD on how to shape EPS blanks. There may be a few left, it’s worth picking up to learn some tricks from BJ.

“Shaping EPS Blanks is a training video that demonstrates the techniques and tools required to shape EPS / Epoxy surfboards of commercial quality. The program is not a complete “how to build a surfboard” guide. Instead, Shaping EPS Blanks is geared to the professional builder; and emphasizes technique and tooling of expanded polystyrene foam. Demonstrated by B. J. ( Bryson ) Williamson, a shaper and builder with 40 years experience.”

The link to the order site is here.

Summertime 08

Aloha! Summer is here and we hope everybody is having a good one so far.

The site has been sorely neglected in the past few months due to some really stupid mistakes your humble site maintenance guy has made, but I just spoke with BJ and we have some plans to bring you some new stuff here on the site. I have installed a spam filter, so hopefully we won’t get three hundred spams about things I don’t want to mention.

Stay tuned and have a nice wave!