Atlantic coast · 8°C · shoulder high

Vellamo

A brand about going in the water. Boards happen to be how we pay for it.

Chapter one

salttimbertime

Three things every board needs, and the only three we're precious about. Everything else — the colour, the fin count, the length — we'll argue about happily over the phone.

Chapter two

the hours nobody photographs

Six a.m., wet neoprene, the heater on full. This is the part of surfing we actually make things for.

A surfer carrying a timber twin-fin down to the water at last light

Chapter three

seven shapes, drawn by hand

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