Post #479757 by Swangulo Tikis on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 10:31 AM

My husband Big Mike used to make the trophies for the Hennessey's Paddle Board Competition in Hermosa Beach. They're concrete Moais with surfboards behind them - they would even stain them different colors, if I recall correctly, for 2nd and 3rd place. Everyone who participated got a little mini version of the trophy. The 1st place trophy was a gigantic concrete cup with tikis and surfboards all around... will have to find a pic, it's really cool. They did it for the Long Beach Paddleboard competition as well. (Last I heard Hennessey's was handing out coffee mugs in place of trophies. Sad.)

Terra
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On 2002-04-19 03:01, Trader Woody wrote:
Great stuff!
Not enough attention is paid to the link between surfing/skating and Tiki. A pub near my favourite surf spot on the Cornish coast has an great 'trophy' for a surf comp which has three moai's, each with a surfboard behind them. It really looks the business!

Trader Woody