Flogging Molly Cruise 2023 Coverage
Posted on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 by Matt Shail
Our friend Matt Hensley of Flogging Molly invited us aboard the Norwegian Pearl for the annual Salty Dog cruise. We brought our friends the Goat Ramp along for the ride. Here's how it all went down.
photos by Matt Shail
photos by Matt Shail
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It was a really long day leading up to this point, but we made it. The finishing touches on the ramp so that we can host our first demo at sea aboard the Norwegian Pearl for the Flogging Molly Cruise
Matt Hensley, of pro skateboarding and Flogging Molly fame, greets the crowd and welcomes them aboard.
Brian and the boys putting some final touches on the Goat Ramp so we were able to catch some air. They had a net over the court where the ramp was built so these wooden pillars gave us some room to breathe!
SPoT's own, Peter Kryger, returns for his 2nd cruise and brought twice the amount of energy. Blunt fakie to warm up for the crowd.
5-0 fakie from Strubing going 100mph on the boat. If you add in the speed of the boat and the wind, he's really going like 200mph.
A very rare Jason Adams sighting. This was the only photo I got of him all cruise. Always loved his part in the Bag of Suck video
I snuck away from the ramp to catch Pennywise! They let me close to the stage. New career path incoming
The crowd was going insane. I was getting on top of the security with the fish eye. It was exhilarating. Take me back to the pit!!
Day 2 started off with a belly flop contest hosted by the Gorilla Biscuits. What a nutty bunch. Homie crawled over the railing and jumped from the 2nd story. I don't know if that's regulation, but we are out at sea. There are no rules
Little crowd gathering on the outside of the net. Lots of people came out on the 2nd night of the demo.
Hosoi with a one foot back D to close out the demo for the night. I'm running off to catch some music now!
Give it up for Flogging Molly. Incredible evening. See you all tomorrow for day 3 aboard the Norwegian Pearl
All that drinking making the boys feel rough. Alex Vestal lying on the deck trying to collect himself from last night's mischief.
Dave Duncan has been pro since 1987. Here he is in 2023 front slashing the coping to warm up his MC skills for the evening.
This photo was super underexposed. If you read my captions earlier you'd know this is how I rescue them. Black/white kickflip fakie from Peter
Peter and I escaped collision and I accidentally shot this one as he manualled his way across the deck and back into the ramp. That's a wrap for the evening. See you all tomorrow!
Sixthman crew hit us up and asked if we could shoot some daytime stuff. These busters were out late having too much fun!
Man in the middle is our guy Murder. He helped us setup, made sure we had water and beers, AND the captains loved him
I got to meet the Sixthman photographer, Rich Johnson. He was a great dude with a lot of cool insight on photography. What do you care? You want to see skateboarding
I think this might be my favorite photo of the trip and it was a total lucky shot. I don't think I am supposed to tell people my secret is luck. Steve Cab front rock
This is a hard one to shoot so I will just tell you. Strubing clocked in at 100mph and then back 180 out of this 5-0 into the transition.
Matt Hensley hasn't been on a board in a while and he hopped onto the ramp with the guys. It was so awesome to see one of the pioneers of street skating doing his thing. Front slash from Matt
Tim Kulas grabbing some footage. Tim is the man that built the Goat Ramp. He used to live at SPoT back in the early infancy stages of the park in the 90's.
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