A living monument
Kolby's Traveling KA Log
A journey of faith, surfing & Aloha—passed from surfer to surfer, community to community.
A message from Duke
The board that started with a notepad.
After Kolby passed, we found a notepad on his desk with two lists—things he needed to do and things he wanted to do.
Need to do: “Learn more about Jesus.”
Want to do: “Design a new log with Dad.”
That longboard was something Kolby and I had talked about years earlier but never got the chance to finish together. Using those conversations and a board he had once asked me to study, I completed the design we had started. The KA Log was born.
Artist Evan Rossell transformed the board into a one-of-a-kind piece of art—a blue Kolby-inspired version of his Hairy Fools characters, mustache and all, holding a Bible.
Through a series of unexpected connections, the board brought together Kolby's love of surfing, his growing faith, our family's journey through grief, and the path we believe he was beginning to walk. The KA Log is a living monument, passed from surfer to surfer, community to community, to experience God's creation and share what that feels like.
The journey begins in Huntington Beach and from there, it will travel from surfer to surfer, beach town to beach town—with the hope of reaching Hawaiiʻi and surf communities around the world.
Surf it. Share it. Pass it forward.
Every wave adds a story.
Surf it. Share what the ocean means to you. Share what God means to you. Leave something behind. Then pass it forward. Every message leaves something behind. Every surfer carries the journey a little farther.