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  • Zigzag

    Quiver'd

    Jun 21, 2022 5 minutes
    with Dave van Ginkel

    I've been working with surfboards for over 30 years, ever since I was a kid growing up in Fish Hoek. I was obsessed with surfing and got my first board as a birthday present when I was 12 or 13. The board got dinged and my dad, who had been a yachtsman, knew how to work with resin. He showed me how to do a repair and that was me from there on. A few years later, I had a thriving ding repair business and started to dabble in shaping.

    I guess some people think of me as a big wave shaper nowadays but that part of it really happened by chance. I was still doing repairs and shaping out of my garage back in the early 2000s when I got a call on my cell phone one day. I've never been good with a

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