Adrian Tregoning

Just before Christmas I received my composite Element. As can be imagined, I was chomping at the bit to get this thing in the water! Although the wait was long for this one, I managed to try out Andrew Pollock’s composite one a week before I got mine as he was staying with me for just over a week. Although the waves refused to cooperate we made the best of some bad situations and managed to get a few photos and had a great time doing it. I’ll let the photos and their accompanying captions do the talking.

Getting ready at the parking lot at Caves.

Andrew Pollock pulling into a little one at Caves. But the waves here are pretty hollow! Great for bodyboarding :-)

Andrew taking off on another.

Beautiful barrel… Andrew heading past with not many options on a close out section as Braam Rademeyer gets ready to duck the large foam pile.

Andrew Pollock pulling into another.

Andrew with a sweet macho move.

Andrew heading over a potentially great wave.

Looking out at Caves.  Caves. What a spot. I love it.

Andrew opting for a smaller wave that ran better. Bigger waves just closed out, mostly.  Andrew on a sweet one!

Caves with a thin lip.

Braam Rademeyer dropping in.

Adrian Tregoning pulling in too. Photo by Braam Rademeyer.

Me passing a really sick wave. Photo by Braam Rademeyer.  Andrew with another macho move.

Braam getting barrelled again! 

Andrew cruising past again.

Parking lot at Caves. Beautiful place, as you can see. A very sharky spot though. One person has been attacked here already. 

Quick stop to check out the dry Palmiet River before heading home.  Andrew’s composite Element. 

Adrian Tregoning at Corner, Melkbosstrand. Photo by Andrew Pollock.

Me cruising past. Andrew opted to take photos this time – shot mate! Photo by Andrew Pollock. 

Fun waves. Photo by Andrew Pollock.  Adrian again. Photo by Andrew Pollock.

I was having fun on these waves! Photo by Andrew Pollock.  A bigger set sneaking in but no problem you just paddle over. Photo by Andrew Pollock.

My composite Element the day it came, in green, of course :-)

Yep, it’s light!

Happy man. Just in time for Christmas.  Front and back view. My 3.2 litre V6 Quattro and my composite Fluid Element. What more can a man ask for? That’s Table Mountain in the background by the way – Cape Town, South Africa. I played a game of chess against someone online the other night and they asked me where Cape Town was… Shame… ;-)

Andrew Pollock at Yzerfontein, about 60km north of Cape Town. This is actually the spot we first went to as the waves were so tiny. Unfortunately, they were also small here. This is the end of a macho move.

Polly carving up the monster waves we had that day.

Andrew again. 

Underwater beauty. 

Andrew with a sweet backstab. Even on crap waves the composite Element shines.

Finishing off a backstab.

Andrew eating too much. 

Another one close to the camera. A shot I took from underwater. Water was a bit murky I’d say.

Andrew Pollock happy with a Black Label beer. Ahhhhh…

Closing photo from Cape Town. How’s that for a sweet sunset view???!!! Let the good times roll. 

Check out this video I made:

Composite Fluid Element - January 2010 from Adrian Tregoning on Vimeo.

So there you have it. Note that my green Element is still pre-production, hence it does not have fins. But extensive testing has revealed this boat to be 100% with no problems. So production boats should be coming out to you SOON! And yes, production boats will have the same 4WFS has the plastic version.

Photography by: Adrian Tregoning. Unless otherwise stated.
All Words by: Adrian Tregoning.