Ann Coen somehow found some time to shoot a few of our riders during the Earl swell! Ann Coen photography is busier then ever shooting weddings, portraits, surfers, Jetty events & plenty more…check out her site and wonderful work! Below are team riders Pete Machotka & Royce Weber showing their true colors. Click either photo for a few more shots from Hurricane Earl.

We’ll be at the Flow House tonight (8/28) from 7pm-midnight for the “End of Summer Contest”. Come out and see who has honed their skills during the first summer! Jetty tent sale in full effect with threads available. See you there!

Formerly known as Varton & the Sand Crabs, Brian Parnagian, Jared Temple & Steve McGlynn have been polishing their sound and have really taken a step forward with their band, Nicotine & Brown (official Facebook page & MySpace page). These guys played in the lobby at our New Year’s Eve bash last year and also at a viewing of A Pleasant Surprise back on August 2nd @ the Long Beach Township ball field. Brian has surfed for Jetty since our inception and Jared just did a little modeling work for our Fall/Winter shoot (photos coming soon)! Great guys, great vibes – we highly suggest checking out one of their shows!

We’d like to thank everyone that came out and supported the 2nd Annual Coquina Jam last night – the surfers, the sponsors, the volunteers – what an amazing event! Jetty, The Black Whale Bar & Fish House & Speakeasy Pizza raised over $1000 for breast cancer which will be donated to Boarding for Breast Cancer (more then double the amount we raised last year)! The conditions were great and the girls truly put on an eye-opening display of surfing wave after wave. Congrats to the four teams which will move on to the Clam Jam this OCT and compete for the Coquina trophy: Mary Frack & Taylor Herman, Allie Panetta & Nicole Schmidt, Deb Green & Corey DeStefano and Kim Kepich & Jessica Johnson. Here are a few shots of the event by Ann Coen & Alex Rivera with plenty more to follow. In addition, a great article by Jon Coen that ran in The Press of Atlantic City today.

Check out this recent article on our company that ran in the Sandpaper (August 18, 2010; Volume 36; No. 33). You can also access a flash version of the entire Sandpaper here (page 51)!

We made a small test run of Jetty surfboards this summer, but we didn’t sell any! We scooped up a bunch ourselves and even gave a few away! Recently, at Fantasy Island’s Surf’s Up week, we raffled off two brand new Jetty surfboards! We have one surfboard left which will be raffled off at the Coquina Jam on August 18th to benefit breast cancer awareness!

Click here for a printable version of the 2nd annual Coquina Jam Bracket!

Kick-off fundraiser and block party for the McCreesh Skatepark Project in southwest Philadelphia!

One of our beloved Jetty urchins, Dennis O’Connor, recently took a job out in San Diego, CA – congrats man! Dennis was “the intern” during the summer of 2009 and was a pleasant addition to our family, but just because he “has to be a grown up professional” that doesn’t mean he’ll lose involvement with the Jetty brand. His training in Los Angeles, San Diego & Connecticut is just about done and he’ll be making San Diego (PB) his new home. He recently picked up a dumpster diver, surfed Malibu with some major heavies and even got a shot with Mick! Dude, it’s okay, we believe you that it was laundry day thus no Jetty shirt in the photo!

Team rider Fred Ecke just checked in and let us know that he’s busy opening a new business in Neptune, NJ – stay tuned for more on that! He gave us a few summer photos to hold us over, but is hoping for much bigger & better surf (can we get a hurricane swell please) soon! Good luck with the new biz kid!