'Going Feral' Roy's upcoming book...

We dropped out back in 1991, escaped to an offshore island and lived for 14 years off the grid, I'm writing about what happened. #Going_Feral Subscribe for updates and short stories, thanks.

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No house no telephone no electricity no running water no sewerage reticulation no plumbing no vehicle no bank no eftpos no credit card no internet.

 

They all had a great time, actually.

Allowed myself the luxury of purchasing a few stitches ( one of only two times I used a doctor in the past 20 years) but removed them myself with a pair of nail scissors and was back in the water a week after the accident.

 

Charles I was riding the 70 pound redwood Dragon board in small onshore surf, and lost the board. I swam after it and possibly because i'd been in training for the NZ Nationals arrived at the destination faster than expected. In other words I swam at full speed into the pintail. A small piece of resin had been chipped off leaving a sharp edge about 1/8" across, the board was rocking up and down in the swell as I hit it so scribed a nice big slice. The impact was pretty hard too but it didn't hurt. I drove myself to the doctor and luckily a top plastic surgeon was visiting the beach clinic so I got the best possible result. Thirty six stitches were used, that makes 46 to the head in total so far.

I won a watch in NZ Surfing mag's 'Gash of the month'.

 

That depends upon when we are talking about... it was a 14 year mission, during which we started making surfboards.

We started making our own wax in 1998, using a recipe invented by my wife which has won several awards all over the world and is now well known as a standard organic board wax recipe.

 

You can ask my children yourself if you want to exit your own toxic fantasy and enter reality.

They are on my facebook friends list... and I'm not Paskowitz.

My children were given the choice ( and still are) of schooling at home or at the regular insititution.

Anyhow the book will certainly create a variety of opinions on what we did, I already know that.

 

What about them?

 

That's the 8'4" 'Phantom singlefin in balsa, glassed with 6oz . 8'4" by 21" from 1996, It could be done in paulownia. A great little board, a true double ender in every respect, rocker planshape and rails. It could have the fin on the other end and be exactly the same. Thickness was only 44mm, it could be scaled up a tad. There's another shot on there showing the fin, along with another board.