8'0 Retro Gun (#54)

70's Era Single Fin Gun.  Bright orange bottom with a light blue logo.  Tapered rail lap accented with a black pin line.  Board paddles great and is loose in waves over shoulder high.  Looking forward to riding this throughout the winter here in Socal and Norcal.

8'0 X 21" X 3 3/16

Paddle machine for those clean, overhead days.

This angle really shows the foil and the period beak nose.

Mexico

A short photo gallery...

Tyler Going Straight

  Tres Langostas por Tres Amigos

  Empty Rights (fairly far from the highway)

   Ghost Harbor (Escalara Nautica)

 The Campo

Several days of glassy, warm, empty surf.  Great trip overall.

#52 and #53

These are two new shapes for my friends Tyler and Matt.  Tyler's board is a 7'4 with a hull outline.  We decided to experiment with George Greenough's edge design, so the center area of the the board is dead flat to promote fast planing.  The turned up rails in the nose and midsection of the board allow the board to still roll onto an edge, giving the board a bit of a hull feel.  I lowered the rocker in the tail by 1/2" on this one, but kept the nose rocker stock.  Blank is the 7'4 SP Blue. Should be a fun shape for clean waves this fall and winter.

Matt's board is a modern log.  9'8 x 23 x 3.  Not quite a 20" nose. I designed the board so that it would pivot from the tail and noseride well.  The rocker is kicked in the tail a bit and fairly flat though the nose.  There's a big single concave under the nose area for lift.  Blank is the 10'2 B Green with 1/2" Darkwood stringer +1/4" tail rocker at 24".  I think Matt is eager to get his son Oliver out in the waves.  He seems stoked!

#51

Here are a few pics of a stubby shortboard I just finished for my good  friend Keegan. Dims are 5'8 × 22.5"× 2.25. Single concave to a pronounced spirally vee bottom. Should ride loose and fast.

#50

Here are a few pics of my personal 10'0" pintail.  The board features a half- inch redwood stringer, two offset t-bands with redwood and blue, high-density foam, and a custom glass-on pivot fin.   It rides great in small waves up to head high.  Very stable on the nose.

A little tail flip to aid in nose riding.

Outline.

Pintail.

Light blue pinline on the deck for decoration.

5'8 High Performance

Here are a few pictures of a new high performance shortboard I recently finished.  Dims are 5'8 x 19 1/4 x 2 1/2

 

Rocker Shot

 

Black Pinline

 

Ready to Ride

5'4 Bonzer

Hello,

Here is a new shape I have been working on.  You can find an earlier incarnation of this board further back in the posts.  The original board was a 5'6 set up as a twin fin.  This newer version is a five fin bonzer with a deep double concave.

This one's number six for Tyler, and number forty-eight over all.

Shaping Bay Update/ 2+1

I've been contemplating removing the floors in my shaping bay for some time now because the excess resin from nearly 50 boards has formed a small mountain range down the center of the bay.  With the help of my buddy Tyler, I cut a six by twelve foot hole in the original plywood floor and removed the bulk of the resin.  I layed down three more sheets of plywood to fill the hole, and voila!, the bay looks almost new again.

Here's what was there before the new floor went in:

I also pulled out some old five gallon drums of resin and a bunch of used acetone that had been gathering dust and cobwebs in the corner.  I estimate that that floor has at least 40 boards worth of resin piled onto it, which made the extra set of hands really important when pulling it out.

The last board to be glassed on the original floor was a 6'2" Wing Swallowtail I made for myself.  I've been inspired by the surfing and shaping of the Fitzgerald clan, as well as by Dave Parmenter for his Widowmaker fin array.  I tried to put all this together into a shortboard which surfs like a singlefin but with a bit more control and drive off the tail.  I've ridden the board several times and can say confidently it paddles well and is fairly fast, but I need more time to see if it truly allows me to surf how I'm trying to surf. 

Here are a few pictures of the board.  I'm using the 2+1 Parrish setup offered by True Ames (7" Center 3.25"Sidebites).  I have a 5.5" Parrish cutaway which I also plan to try to loosen it up if necessary.

 

 

 

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El Nino Spear!

This board is an 11'1 paddleboard/surfboard combo.  Made for slopey outer reefs as well as smaller days at the point.  The board features a fairly deep single concave running almost nose to tail, with a beveled rail and vee in the tail.  So far, the owner seems to like it.

                                                                 
11'1 X 22 X 3 3/4