The Thruster Grail

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Volume 21.Issue 2

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When Andrew Kidman took Simon Anderson’s original Thruster for a paddle one day he was only vaguely aware of its monetary value, he just knew that it was a special surfboard. But after spending some days in the water with the shaping pioneer, Kidman came to find out that the board made the man just as much as the man made the board.