Torren Martyn & Simon Jones Film Tour

After a sold out tour needessentials will now present an encore screening of The Ugly Duckling at the Beach Hotel in Newcastle at 6pm on Tuesday 16 July 2024. 

Torren Martyn and Simon Jones will be at the show for a Q & A to discuss their surfer/shaper relationship, surfboard design and the Calypte voyage. 

 

When Torren Martyn and Aiyana Powell put out the message that they might need an experienced hand to guide the 35ft sailing boat Calypte up the Malacca Strait and around to Sumatra, sailor and filmmaker Kelly Foote offered to help. While showing Torren and Aiyana the ropes, Kelly started filming and a story emerged.

Surfboard shaper Simon Jones and Torren had been developing a performance-focused twin fin that would work at challenging shallow reef passes and atolls. As the voyage progressed, Torren and Simon devised a radically different-looking take on a tried and true shape.

'The Ugly Duckling' by Torren Martyn & Kelly Foote is a film that gives insight into how genuine surfboard design occurs when there’s a deep connection between surfer and shaper.

Earlier sold out shows:

Proceeds from all these events have been donated to SurfAid to help with their work to improve the health, wellbeing and resilience of remote communities in Indonesia

 

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