This year Finisterre and a handful of St Agnes locals will be hosting Aggityville, a haunted coastal walk, sponsored by Skinner’s Brewery, with all proceeds going to Children’s Hospice South West’s Precious Lives Appeal, to build a hospice in Cornwall. The Haunted Coastal Walk begins at The Taphouse and will be ending up in The Driftwood Spars. It will involve some scary shenanigans and spooky scenarios, with more than a few frights!

How it works:
Starting at 7:30pm, groups of ten will be shuttled from the Taphouse to the beginning of the Aggityville Haunted Coastal Walk, from there, the groups will walk along the coastal path meeting a series of spooky sites and ending in The Driftwood Spars.

If you want to take part:
Sign-up is in The Taphouse or Driftwood Spars, anytime from now until the 31st of October, cost per person is £3.00 and this will include a free pint of Skinner’s Ale, to be enjoyed at the Taphouse before or after the Haunted Walk in the Driftwood. There are limited spaces and they’re filling up fast, so be sure to sign-up quickly. All proceeds will be going to Children’s Hospice South West’s Precious Lives Appeal.

The first group will start at 7.30pm and the Forest will close at 9.30pm. The walk itself will last around 20 minutes per group …should you make it to the other side!…

Any questions: please phone us on 01872 554481

Two designers, a purple VW Polo, some blankets, pillows and a mission - to document a little trip that’s been in the making for a few years now. We can’t reveal too much information, but we did want to let you all in on some magical moments from the trip. - Images of the UK in all her glory and a brief testament to our aspirations of bringing everything we do back home.

When it comes to surf competitions, you’re in the lap of the god’s. Generally speaking, weather is a miss, surf is shy better than a ripple and by the end of two days of surfing, judging and tabulating scores, the crowds are ready to go home.

This year, the Buntabout had it’s biggest turnout in 29 years of running the event, surf was pumping, the sun was shining and nearly 2000 pounds was raised for Children’s Hospice South West’s Precious Lives Appeal, geared towards building a hospice in Cornwall.

It was an emotional event, with the many generations of Aggie families competing; fathers, mothers, daughters, sons and a boat load of pride. We were stoked to sponsor the event and to be a part of a little Aggie tradition.

Some of the days action provided by www.sarahbunt.co.uk:

Up and coming groms…

Night surf at Aggie

Marky, taking a little off the top

TP and Debs went down on the farm in Devon where we are developing our very own sheep breed. Learning the complexities of animal husbandry, including how to artificially inseminate a ewe, and why some breeds make bad mothers but formidable lovers! TP got to drive the tractor and we were reaquainted with many of the famer’s favourite’s livestock. We are all set to return for shearing and lambing in the new year and to see if our ram - Pickle has managed to change his view!…..

Allan and Molly rocked up this morning around 10am and they came bearing gifts… our merinos! They are here, they’ll be going up on the site tomorrow, followed by some video of our new designer Debbie, talking you through how special they are. You can order now, just call us on 01872 554481 or wait to buy online tomorrow.

Super stoked, cheers for the delivery Allan and Molly!

This past week our merino samples landed, what ensued was a flurry of phone calls trying to organize a couple of faces to sit behind the camera, a few offerings to the rain god for the weekend and a good end result.

Tom Savage aka TS, was the man behind the lens, directing models, holding court and picking the shots. In the end he produced brilliant images, magazine editors were happy, product looks solid and boys and girls were stoked.

Cheers for the big effort guys and girls - result.

Merino’s will be in this Wednesday and we’re already running low on specific sizes and colors. To pre-order yours, contact us anytime on 01872 554481

Women’s Full Zip Arcus - Kermit green - Kim… so hot right now

Men’s Coho - Super blue - Marcus… a good looking cat

Surfstock happened a little over a month ago, thousands of people from all over the UK made the pilgrimage, they saw some bands strut their stuff, there were themed tents in which much lewd and lascivious behaviour took place and the rest… well, we’ll leave that at Surfstock.

Amongst the hedonistic happenings was the Surfstock Industry Awards, which focused on companies within the surf industry that have made outstanding contributions to surfing in the British Isles. People were asked to vote online over a weeks period and in the end we were humbly surprised to have been selected as this years winner and in close second, Surfers Against Sewage. We shared the award with boys across the way and with it came a drop of 72 pints of beer, from Cornwall’s own, Skinner’s Brewery.

As always, super stoked to receive the votes and award!

Now in its 29th year, the Buntabout is an awesome local surf comp. One of the longest running surf comps there is, it is organised by Badlands shaper Stevie Bunt (Best Ever Surfboards) and is always a good crack. There are shed loads of entries for all ages, this year it’ll be raising money for the Precious Lives Appeal (Childrens Hospice South West). All entry fees and any other money raised will go to this charity.

The contest will take place at St.Agnes and Chapel Porth on the weekend of the 11th 12th October and weather permitting will hopefully include a night surf.

VENUE: St.Agnes and Chapel Porth
DATE: 11th 12th October
ENRTY FEE: £10 Free contest t shirt and meal ticket for the sunday evening
CATEGORIES: MENS OPEN, LADIES OPEN, U18 BOYS U18 GIRLS U16 BOYS/GIRLS, U16 BOYS/GIRLS U14 BOYS /GIRLS, MASTERS, LONGBOARD
CHARITY: Precious Lives Appeal (Childrens Hospice, South West)

EVENT PROGRAMMME:
FRIDAY NIGHT- Live music at the Driftwood Spars, St.Agnes from the Mosquitos! £2.50 ENTRY and get 1 free Red Stripe!

SATURDAY- Heat registration at 9am St.Agnes beach, morning and lunch time BBQ at the surf club. ev
heats all day! weather permitting night time surf, evening drinks in Schooners whilst night surf is taking place.

SUNDAY- Finals at St.Agnes beach starts at 9am. Presentation evening at the Driftwood Spars starting at 7pm with food for all competitors and officials!

Check the photos of last year’s comp - thanks to Sarah Bunt (sarb60@hotmail.co.uk). She’ll be on hand again this year to get your 10 point ride…