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]]>We're pleased to announce, after ever-changing COVID regulations (latest in effect 23rd August 2021), to give all of you a final update. The good news is Petro-Surf Vol.3 will go down August 28th as planned at the harbor of Munkmarsch in the eastern part of Sylt. Times are set from 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
Besides a rad location with 75 handpicked aircooled Porsches, P/S will feature an art exhibition with artists like Julian Schnabel, Danny Minnick plus some more. Also, as every year, we'll showcase a photo exhibition touching on our main topics: surfing and Porsches. The Porsche photo part for 2021 is covered by Barrett Loose and our surf photo exhibit by none other than the legendary Art Brewer! There will be different booths by our sponsors, a place to buy Petro-Surf merch, food, drinks, a live DJ set for the whole day, an exhibit on the harbor, which has a rich history, a surfboard exhibition and a bunch of more things to keep your mind occupied and inspired.
Due to COVID regulations we're not able to host external guests at the following activities, which are only reserved for Petro-Surf participants and invited guests. This refers to the surf contest, the drive challenge or any other activity other than the main day 28th of August at the Munkmarsch harbor, which is free of charge and everybody is welcome! Opening hours below, with the below mentioned restrictions.
The festival site is located at: Munkmarscher Hafen / Bi Heef 2 / 25980 Sylt OT Munkmarsch / Germany. Parking for guests is located at a designated parking area, the address is: Beton Maron GmbH / Pan'er 333B / 25980 Sylt. All accredited participants of Petro-Surf will be parked on the premises. Our parking team on site will direct and help you.
Important facts for the festival site 28th of August 1:00 - 9:00 PM:
A big thank you to our sponsors without whom none of this would be possible!
Our head presenter for 2021is BOSS, followed by Porsche/Porsche auf Sylt, Fritz Hansen, Tag-Heuer, Syltfähre, Marine Machine, Norden, Inselkind, Fährhaus Hotel Group, Sylt Marketing and Hake GmbH.
If you have any questions hit us up via: info@marinemachinesupply.com!
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So basically you can lounge on your couch, have a brew or three and plan your next day trip and then take off from your front door - into your car without having to type in your GPS destination. Basically it works from your front door to the exact spot, where you want to go.
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For the main day, Saturday the 6th of July, the weather gods wanted to keep us on our toes and started the day off with buckets and buckets of rain. Spirits remained high even though we were all drenched, but hey P/S is all about passion and we're only talking water. Meeting spot was the Buhne 16 parking lot from where we took a 40 minute drive across the island to the Ocean Camp, which used to be an old elementary school. A couple refreshments later and after a photo shooting of each of the participant's cars with our brother from another - Vince Perraud - we got back on the road to drive to the festivals site. A big THANK YOU also to Ted Gushue, who came out all the way for barely 24 hours to cover P/S for Type 7.
For 2019 we wanted to evolve the festival a little bit. Evolution is the name of the game. Each of our sponsors had a booth set up, we featured photo exhibitions of the 2018 P/S festival, Alan van Gysen provided us with stunning surf photography and our good friend Maurice van den Tillaard took care of the Porsche visuals. Thomas Bexon along with glasser extraordinaire Jake Bowrey shaped and glassed a board in one of the Heimplanet expedition tents, showing next level artistry. NYC artist Richard Phillips showed sketches from his Le Mans winning Porsche livery and living Porsche encyclopedia Uwe Makrutzki, from Porsche classic alongside Le Mans winning Porsche factory driver Richard Lietz, partook in a live discussion, giving the festival visitors some inside Porsche knowledge that usually only diehard fans know about. Another unique part of Petro-Surf was the Heimplanet village, where Heimplanet set up a beautiful camp site for several P/S visitors to spend their time on Sylt. Our Petro-Surf resident artist Stevie Gee had a bodega store on site with a bunch of rad art and goodies for sale.
To relieve our DJ for a little bit we had two bands come out: local surf tune aficionados "The Monkey Plums" and later at night Copenhagen's finest "Halasan Bazar". A few more beers later and after some amazing grub from Möllers Anker, we closed the doors and called it a night. After everything was set and done it was an amazing day with an extremely well turnout, telling us that we're on to something in year two. Thanks to everybody, who came out – it's all about the people!
One main part of Petro-Surf 2019 was left for Sunday, our last day. In cooperation with the Surf Club Sylt we hosted the "Petro-Surf-Single-Fin-Challenge" in pretty decent surf. 16 surfers duked it out for cash prizes. Tim Schubert, a Sylt local, came out on top, but everybody was juiced just to be out there.
What a weekend!
Thanks to our sponsors: Porsche, Heimplanet, Kampen, Captain Fin, Sylt Fähre, Magnus Quelle, Veltins, Blue Magazine and Hake GmbH, without whom Petro-Surf would not be possible!
Stay tuned for what we're cooking up for Petro-Surf Vol.3 19th - 21st June 2020!
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Ken Hake lives and breathes surfing. On water he prefers a board – on asphalt his favourite is the 1987 Carrera 3.2. A meeting with the initiator of the “Petro-Surf” Porsche gathering.
He only misses San Diego occasionally, and it's whenever he is on the board and when he thinks back to the relaxed Californian lifestyle. “The Pacific’s waves are just one of a kind, not even the rough North Sea can match them,” says Ken Hake, who was born on the North Sea island of Sylt in 1979.
He learnt how to properly ride the waves, whether on the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, in the North of Germany – initially by windsurfing, later exclusively using a surfboard. In 1996, Hake even won the German surfing championship. “It’s hard to believe but Sylt can look back at a long surfing history. As early as the 1950s, lifeguards used boards to master the waves of the North Sea. At some point they then brought back surfboards from their holidays in France and took to the waves on them,” says Ken Hake.
At 18, the native of Sylt was keen to venture out across the ocean and ended up in California. In 1997, Hake formed part of the German national team, taking part in the World Surfing Championships in Huntington Beach, where he immediately caught the bug of the Californian way of life. A year later he returned to the Golden State – this time to San Diego, where Hake studied marketing and economics. “However, most of the time I was busy surfing in La Jolla, which has one of the world’s oldest surf clubs. There was a special spirit in the air, something without comparison,” he romanticises to this day.
However, after having spent twelve years in the US, he returned to Germany. Pivotal in his decision was his employer’s relocation from San Diego to Los Angeles. “I like L.A., but living there just seemed too hectic,” says Hake, looking back. “I knew that if I didn't return to Germany at that point, I would never do so.” Back in Hamburg, Hake, who had always been fascinated by design, created his own label: Marine Machine. Ever since, leather jackets meant to last a lifetime have been on sale from Hamburg across the virtual shop counter. However, Hake is also surfing his own wave in terms of Porsche.
The brand has been accompanying him since he was a child. “My father sparked a passion in me for sports cars from a very early age,” Ken explains. Hake Senior is standing right behind him. “I was the second person to ever bring a Porsche to the island of Sylt. And I remain the only one who has been doing so to this day,” Hake’s father says.
His first Porsche was a 356 Super, followed by a Carrera 2, “the one with the famous Fuhrmann engine featuring overhead camshafts ...
You know what I mean. I am still annoyed that I sold it, even today ...,” Hake Senior, mineral oil merchant and former pilot, admits. He used to fly famous publishers like Rudolf Augstein, former publisher of the German magazine “Der Spiegel”, around the world.
“Looking at the selection of Porsche cars my father has owned over the years, I almost get goosebumps. There was an S version of the F Model he had modified by Rennsport Kremer. Then two Carrera RS 2.7, both as a Touring and also a racing version, plus an SC, which Alois Ruf tweaked for him,” Hake Junior explains. Today, Hake Senior drives a Porsche Type 964 Turbo including factory powerkit (WLS). Ken, on the other hand, swears by a G Model in Granite-Green Metallic. He uses it to travel as far as the French coast to go surfing.
“Porsche is unique, a brand that is close to my heart,” Ken says. His statement is underlined by his most recent project: Petro-Surf, something he brought to life together with his friend Angelo Schmitt. It’s a kind of collaboration between surfers and Porsche enthusiasts. Recently, the community met on Sylt for the second time, attracting not only sports car aficionados from all over Germany, but even fans from New York and Australia. Ken never really burnt his bridges with California.
For example, he has already supported works driver Patrick Long in his aim to establish the US-based Luftgekühlt Porsche gathering in England and Munich. “Back then my mate Matthias Hoeing and I were on our way to Spa to visit Patrick at one of his races. In that season he raced alongside Patrick Dempsey and Marco Seefried. We quickly became close,” Hake reminisces, who was unsuccessfully seeking a similar spirit in Germany to that embodied by Luftgekühlt.
After having started in Los Angeles, Luftgekühlt also became a success in Munich and in the English town of Bicester. Petro-Surf now enhances the spirit of classic Porsche gatherings. However, it’s all according to Ken Hake’s liking: with a Northern German flair. “I look forward to finding out where Porsche and Petro-Surf will take us,” Hake explains. “The first two gatherings were a success. They proved that the air-cooled scene in Germany is almost as chilled out as the one in Los Angeles.”
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This time around there was lots on the to-do list. The surf was looking amazing, Luftgekühlt 6 was about to go down in one of the most amazing locations ever: the Universal Studio sets incl. locations from Back to the Future 1, but what am I talking about? I am sure you've seen all the amazing photos already and I was extremely juiced to present the latest Luftgekühlt x Marine Machine collab.
The second collab consists of a hat in conjunction with The Ampal Creative,who facilitated the production in Los Angeles, made from British fabric with lots of details and TLC it is safe to say we're all super excited about the outcome! Product number two is what you call a "Bordmappe" in good ol' Germany, or how the Luft crew calls it: "a man-purse" for all the documents you'd need to have in your car. Made in Germany from local vegetable dyed leather, quality over quantity any day!
Festivities kicked off at our good friends from Race Service two nights before Luft 6. Nico a.k.a The Ornamental Conifer painted a 935, beers were cold and the tacos tasty, good people - good things!
My original plan for Luftgekühlt, as always, was to catch up with all homies that I don't get to see that much, but as always plans change and Porsche asked me to do interviews for their newsroom. I help, where I can and couldn't turn down the request. I got to talk to a rad and very diverse group of people as Porsche nuts as me and that I am happy to all call friends: from the founders of the R-Gruppe Chris Huergas and Freeman Thomas, Patrick Long Porsche factory driver and Luftgekühlt founder to Vince Perraud Photog extraordinaire, Charles Stanman from Road Scholars, Thorsten Klein from Porsche and a few more. Good times but time passed faster than a 917 on the Mulsanne Straight.
After Luftgekühlt it was time to go back down south to our home-base in La Jolla. The reefs greeted us with good surf, we managed to score Trestles firing with one of the first south swells of the season and I got to enjoy frosty beers at my old work, Pacific Drive Skateshop.
Below is Andrew from The Ampal Creative on his 11'0" Magic Mabile glider gliding away somewhere in La Jolla. Photo by Jack Revell.
To this day I sometimes wonder what am I doing in Germany with my wife and kiddo, but I am very glad to have such a rad group of friends to this day in San Diego, who always welcome me with open arms.
California über alles!
Thanks to Vince Perraud for the awesome Luft 6 Photos!
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We kicked things off with a BBQ at the Porsche auf Sylt concept store the night before the main festival. Sun was out, cold beers were served and tasty food devoured.
The main festival day started in Kampen with a get-together and a drive across the island in the morning, followed by the official opening of the venue by 2:00 PM at the Kaamp Hüs. We had numerous Porsche and surf photo exhibitions by Vince Perraud (Paris), Derek Dunfee (San Diego) and the Wasted Talent crew from Hossegor. All participants parked their aircooled Porsches around the premises, Glen D'Arcie came from J-Bay South Africa for a live surfboard shape performance, we had a marketplace set up where every sponsor had a sales and info booth, DJ Chris from Scotland was working the wheels of steel and Stevie Gee from London was getting down with a live paint performance. We also featured an exhibition of the history of surfing on Sylt, which dates back to 1953 and is therefore one of the oldest scenes in all of Europe!
Major thanks to our head presenter Porsche and Porsche auf Sylt and our Sponsors: Kampen, Norden Surfboards, T.C.S.S., Wasted Talent, Höing Sportmotoren a.k.a. Wickedsixes, RDC Motorail Sylt, Blue Magazine, Veltins Beers, Sylt Quelle and Thorsten Möller's Restaurant "Möllers Anker".
Also a big shout-out to Magnus Walker and Hannah Elliott for coming through, Vince Perraud for being my wingman and flying in from the south of France and our brother from another Stevie Gee and his wife for making the trip from London!
Thank you to all the participants, everybody who came out, our friends (you know who you are) for lending us a helping hand and our families for all the support!
Let's see what we can cook up for next years Vol.2!
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Ever seen Full Metal Jacket? No? Who cares.
Das ist mein Porsche. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My Porsche is my bestest friend. It is my life. I must master it as i must master my life. Without me, my Porsche is just beautiful scrap. without my Porsche, I’m just a meat sack. I must aim my Porsche true. I must brake later than my enemies. I must never lift, even when the corner totally sneaks up on me. I will. So be it, until there is no more petrol, only peace.
Here's some visual goodness.
C'est ca mon amis – see you dudes on the road!
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Sooner or later it was time that we also present something from our SHOP category that has been not that popular so far. Few weeks ago we visited our friend Ken Hake from MARINE MACHINE Leather Supply and his new shop in the town of Hamburg, Germany.
Hamburg is well known for it’s alternative scene of small labels, people and shops but there is one of them that steps a bit out of the row. Marine Machine, founded back in the year of 2012 by owner and creative head of design Ken, combines a very special idea to a international noticed brand. Born on the German isle of Sylt, Ken is addicted to the salty breeze of oceans environment. Already in his early years Ken was water boarded by his surfboard, something that keeps in mind for ever…
Having grown up in the nineteen-nineties, Ken is influenced by the music roots of grunge, good old HipHop and skateboarding, all the good things that are still present till today. For over a decade in the early years of the 20th century Ken moved to San Diego, a space that was still connected by old contacts collected during his former surf contest years. He started a small career in surf & skate industry and used to collect Nike sneakers in his spare time. Collecting this rare stuff was a good idea as selling them at a later time helped to launch the new brand Marine Machine with the cashflow it generated.
Influenced by these experiences and always being on the hunt for the one and only perfect leather jacket, Ken was heading back to Germany to found a label of his own. A straight red line in all of Marine Machine leather goods is the perfect quality combined with a classical design. Based on these rules there are regularly launched small amounts of individually numbered, limited edition pieces – sometimes with other independent creative companies such as for example the collab of Marine Machine X The Ampal Crreative from California, USA.
But there aren’t only leather jackets, there are also bullet proof wallets, belts or fin cases for your short or long boards fabricated out of a local premium quality leather. And of course Ken is able to source you the matching perfect surfboard! All of the products can be shopped online via Marine Machine webstore, but if you do like it a bit more analog with a touch and test wearing things you should visit the showroom in Hamburg or check out one of the dozen stores that offer Marine Machine goods all around the world.
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Ken Hake is the one-man-band behind Marine Machine, a company that provides top-quality, handmade leather products. Ken has a background in the boardsports fashion industry and his products have caught the attention of some key names in the action sports industry for their rugged designs and quality materials.
Please give an overview on how and why the company began.
I have been working in the skate/surf/fashion industry my whole life. At some point I felt that I really had to venture out on my own after moving from San Diego, USA to Hamburg, Germany.
Who is on the management team, and what are their backgrounds?
It’s just myself, the one-man team. That’s how I like it, keep costs down and I can do whatever I want, even though the workload gets a bit heavy sometimes. Before starting Marine Machine I was a Product Manager for a company specialising in arranging leather jackets for all types of international brands.
What is the company ethos?
Make the best possible product for a good price, which is the advantage of not having giant overheads and keep it 100% authentic.
What sets you apart from your competitors?
I don’t see too many companies specialising in leather jackets in the surf/skate industry. I never wanted to be the five millionth textile or t-shirt brand. Each style is a limited edition and each jacket is individually numbered. Always quality over quantity!
Could you tell us about the way in which you use local resources in your products?
All my accessories are either made in San Diego or Hamburg, for the jackets it becomes a bit harder as prices would skyrocket if I had them made locally. All jacket production is currently switched over to a good friend in Portugal. I only work with suppliers I know well.
What do you find important about the European market?
Well – it’s the market I am based in now and it’s obviously a strong market with a lot of different consumers, in terms of taste, cultural background and general diversity.
How do you support athletes and board sports?
I am not going to support anything that I/Marine Machine doesn’t stand for and I don’t go out looking for anybody. I have been fortunate enough that I’ve been recognised for my products. Certain people like Corey Duffel or CJ Nelson and some other pretty well known athletes have hit me up, and for them I am willing to dish out some free product. I don’t want to name too many of them and make it sound like they ride for me or something, as they have other clothing sponsors.
What other marketing are you running?
Social media is important for a small brand like mine with limited resources. Instagram has been really good to me. Whereas Facebook, I can count the sales I have made through it on one hand, Instagram on the other hand has not only generated a fair amount of sales, but it’s also gotten the name out to the right people. Otherwise I rely on my retail points doing some marketing for me, plus the usual, like trade shows and rad events like the Wheels & Waves down in Biarritz for example.
Why should retailers sell your brand?
Hopefully because first of all they dig my product and appreciate all the blood, sweat and tears I put into each item I come out with. Like I said before, there aren’t too many brands in the boardsport sector doing the type of product that I am doing and you get a really well made quality leather jacket without ruining your bank account.
What do you see for the future of your company?
Keep the gradual growth, not get ahead of myself and keep it fun.
What do you see for the future of the industry?
The industry will be fine. Trends and fads come and go, but generally we’re still a pretty young industry that still has a lot of potential and growth ahead of itself. I am not worried about it in any way.
Where can we check out your products/videos/stuff?
Web: www.marinemachinesupply.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MarineMachineLeatherSupply
Instagram: www.instagram.com/marine.machine/
Interviewee name and job title: Ken Hake // Head Honcho
Web: www.marinemachinesupply.com
Tel: +49 (0)40 32 31 0395
Email: ken@marinemachinesupply.com