I bought a older Hobie Peter Pan Slug and was hoping to get some information
on origin of this particular board. I took some pictures of the shapers
signature and serial number. Also some pictures of the floral design and of
the particular logos used, but don’t know where or who to send them 2
Please advise.
-Old Aut
The Slug was the brainchild of Pete Panagiotis of Rhode Island. It was an idea he came up with to get around the ESA contest rules about longboards being used in regular division events. Since many of the contests held in the Northeast are in very small waves, Pan used to ride a longboard to give himself an advantage in gutless conditions. The ESA then decreed that boards had to be under 7’ for use in the regular division heats, as opposed to the longboard specific divisions. The design was intended to have a sub 7’ board that would float and paddle like a longboard. So, a Slug over 9’ is more suited to a person who weighs 300 lbs ( or more).
if you are curious about the value of that board, I’d say it’s worth about $50. Nothing special, there are plenty of them around, and yours is in bad condition.
Someone else might recognize the shaper’s sig. I do not know who it might be. I know it isn’t Pan, he doesn’t shape.
Not positive, but I think that Geoff Logan shaped it.
actually rule 13-B states that a surfboard in “regular” competition i.e: shortboard, shall be NO longer than 2 feet above the competitors head and longboard a minimum of 3 feet above the competitors head
I thought Peter had brought in Lindsay Lohan for a guest shaper
The floral was a rice paper lam.
I guess that was it. I never paid much attention to contests, especially the ESA in New England. The basic idea is still accurate, though. Pan designed to skirt the rules in contests. It was a type of board known as a “cheater” .
He’d probably do that, if he knew it would sell more boards.
And the nose pinstripe design was a blatant copy of Hobie’s Gary Propper Model.
