Cowabunga

The good-luck duck-fish, with single-fin board: 

recycled sculpture mix, denim and blue/green glazes; abalone shell; 

twine; redwood bark; a broken bit from a sea urchin shell. 

That's a memento from Surf-Camp 2008 in the background.  The Richard Schmidt Surf School down in Santa Cruz: check them out, for they will treat you right.