Second Glance
If you were rushing by to make a boarding call, you wouldn’t give them a second glance… … but if you looked twice, you might notice the old canvas rucksacks, the battered rigger boots and wellies, the pelican cases, the facial hair, the head torches hanging out of pockets and the boards. A chart in [...]
Giving it the respect it deserves
The similarities between making an espresso and paddling big waves couldn’t be more similar. Every variable becomes that much more important, it’s a volatile process and can be a very violent thing. 135 pounds of pressurised water (the weight of an adult human being), being forced through a tiny wafer of coffee and any missteps [...]
Deciding to go
It involves last minute flights, making sure your gear is right, swell, wind and tide have to be perfect, tow teams pulled together in hours, phone calls from morning to night, cultural differences, living out of a bag and then finding form when the swell arrives. Garrett McNamara traveled from Hawaii to Nazare, with tow [...]
Never Looking Back
Start a company that will drive a totally new concept forward and build that company off technical know how, thinking differently and being responsible in terms of how you run it. People, industry pundits, almost everyone, except those close to us, told us that it was a pipe dream. We never looked back, you make [...]
The finest film making talent
We just returned from the London Surf Film Festival, an event put on by Finisterre friends Chris and Demi. The event attracted some of the finest film making talent from around the world and an eclectic crew turned out to view their works. Congratulations to Chris and Demi for creating something special, for finding those [...]
North of the Sun
Win 4 tickets to North of the Sun, showing at the London Surf Film Festival next week – Saturday 13th of October @ 7pm. Inge Wegge and Jørn Ranum spent nine cold, dark, winter months living on a remote, arctic island off the coast of Northern-Norway. On an isolated bay edged by the vast potential [...]
Swinging for the fences
Tim Bonython is one of the most gifted surf film producers around. He lives a life surrounded by the biggest personalities and waves on this planet and he captures them both, in some of the most incredible moments we’ve ever seen. When our product can play a part in capturing these moments, it feels pretty [...]
What draws people to water?
OF SOULS + WATER: THE WARRIOR from NRS Films on Vimeo.
Our goal with this series was to get to the root of what draws people to water — to paddling, surfing and rafting — and to tell the stories of real people for whom these sports hold a special importance. We also wanted to use state-of-the-art technology, along with advanced filming and editing techniques, to [...]
Surfing with Reno Kai
Carlos is the first athlete we got on board. Over the years we’ve seen him capture big wave titles, marry and grow a family. We were speaking the other day and he said there was a cool little video he had of his boy Reno Kai. Somethings telling us he’ll be followig in the footsteps [...]
Watch a city skyline light up
Steaming City from Simon Christen on Vimeo.
As someone once said, there is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothes. Anyone can make clothing for good weather, the real trick is making clothing that keep the idea of bad weather just left of our thoughts. When we make an item of clothing here at Finisterre, we love the idea [...]
