YOU emerge from the ocean with her in your arms and fall exhausted to the sand.

While breathing heavily you admire the way the sunlight catches in the droplets beading her firm, brown, sandy skin as she lies there letting the wind dry her sleek frame.

Then your girlfriend says behind you: “Hey babe, could you sunscreen my back?”

Such is the love of male, or female for that matter, surfers for the organic beauty that is a wooden surfboard, as evidenced yesterday morning at Surf World Gold Coast’s Wooden Surfboard Day near Currumbin Alley.

Damien Carew from Annerly, Brisbane, was there among silver foxes of the shaping industry with his first, self-made twin-fin fish constructed mostly of scavenged cedar.

Mr Carew said he had finally tired of snapping fibreglass boards and began looking into wood.

“It involves heaps of research,” he said.

“I learned a lot through this one, doing research along the way and using the Aku Shaper program which is used by shaping machines.

“It’s made of old Venetian blind strips glued together and clamped down onto the frame, and the rail’s made of 12mm cedar strips.

“I’m really happy with it, for a first attempt, and I’m building another fish at the moment with more rocker (upward curve at the nose).”

Yesterday was the third annual Wooden Surfboard Day which followed the Wooden Surfboard Night at Surf World where experts, interested in the craft, gathered.