The Phileas Project

Phileas was the 50th mat to come out of the G-Mat workshop. To celebrate this, and to say thank you for all the support I've been shown by the mat world, I thought it fitting to send her off around the world.

This blog is a record of Phileas' journey. As she gets around and people send me their pictures and and some words I'll put them up on here.

Around the world in... Well... Who knows?!

So, it's with a heavy heart that Phileas moves on from her adventures in Montauk with Jeremy Grosvenor. Some strange things have happened around there...

Not least, the formation of the Cult of Phileas.

Don't be at all surprised if you see Shamanic figures floating around the US East Coast wearing inflatable head dresses and chanting about "pelican glides". Jeremy assures me that these people are harmless.

Not all of what I just said then was true. Here's what Jeremy really had to say:

"Waves this 2014 A.D . U.S. Gratitude day.

The Mattress is great. The grop is A plus and no aroma.

The weight is perfect. The valve was hard to open with Lobster claw mitts on. Mattress very good dropping in and getting ahead of sections. Can stall and re gain speed fast.

After having my Voits fins since 2003 the heel straps broke on the first and second episode on the the Phileas mattress. So the first session one fin snap and disappeared in the sea and the second session other fin snapped. Rode 1st session one finned and rode second session oddly finned. Rode with the broken fin sandwiched between my body and the mattress.

Since I like to hang out on prone paddle boards. Paddling take off is A OK with no fins. As long as getting outside is easy. Yesterday session hard to get outside with short blade fins.

Walking back on the beach with one broken fin and one substitute bodyboarding fin in hand. Bingo I step on the other lost fin on the beach. That was a mile where I originally lost it.

The voits reunited.

Here are the Voits preparing for a fish session in chasing days"

[See "fish" is pictured!]