A few years back we brought you the story of Taylor Lane’s thousand cigarette butt surfboard, which won Vissla’s Creators & Innovators Upcycle Contest in 2017.
The idea of the comp was to challenge board builders to make something surfable out of waste materials and unsurprisingly Lane’s board caught the imagination of both the judges and the surfing world at large, taking home the win and amassing a huge following in the process. Since then he’s continued to beaver away making surf craft out of the most littered item in the world, and recently he convinced Hawaiian ripper and singer-songwriter legend Jack Johnson to take one for a spin.
Here’s what went down:
