anyone have good pics of an AP, where you can see the profile, rails, bottom contour? Maybe a pic of one in action? (the one pic on andersonsurfboards.com only shows outline)
Only 3-fin?
did some searches for the answers first - no find.
it is somewhat similar to your liddle in that it has hull and neutral rails and a bit of s in deck(not much) it started outlife as a liddle with anderson tweaking it a bit with help of boards owner into what it is now.yes, original was tri-fin.a few “top guns” that have them or have ridden them have expressed interest in making them as a 2+1 setup.i do not know if any vere have or not. my friend has ridden his here and abroad in slavador,ecuador and indo with nothing but big smiles the whole time…
2+1 fin setup – faster in trim than thruster setup and keeps wider tail from sliding out? why not something like a single liddle flexfin?
My 6’10" Pescado with a single Liddle 9.0 fin feels a lot like my 6’6" m3p. You can get them up on a rail but it won’t quite feel like the real thing. Put a set of Halcyon’s twisted trifin clusters in the Pescado and it TAKES OFF! A really fun ride that can go vert (well almost) and glides. The Pescado is very rear foot in either configuration. Where as the m3p is classic stand in the middle.
A Pescado with Dave Blake’s trucks…hmmmmmmm…
I was able to ride KPs a while back, then scored a nice one of my own on ebay. The Pescado is a really interesting cross between a Hull and a more standard thruster (mine is 6’8" set up as a thruster). Its got all sorts of planing speed if you move forward on it, and yet you can get back on the tail bit and carve the board around like a thruster. A full wrap around cutback is not much different than on a standard thruster, with no need to nurse it about. It surfs backside nicely as well. I don’t get the classic glide I get out of my Liddles but its closer to that feel than a Single fin or Fish. I imagine it would be a really nice Beach Break board, but I have mostly put it to use in reefs or points. They paddle well, even for me at 6’1" and about 225 lbs. Its a unique critter, set up as a tri fin (Red X Boxes). I don’t think I would want to do the single fin thing with it, nice to be able to Glide off the middle or throw a carve off the tail every now and then. The Board I have is just under 3" thickness wise a touch thinner than KPs, which seems good for me. and its been getting a lot of water time, as I wait for the winter to get into gear. I’d have to give it a pretty solid thumbs up, if your looking to mate a tri-fin with a Hull-
Steve-well put.anderson, though very familiar with hulls didn’t ever quite understand why we rode them. thought we were a bit “touched”( in the head). after he built the pescado for “x” he made one for himself, went to a local beachbreak and blew his mind! now he knows…
rides like that Siglo 21 board (alex copps)? ( search ‘Gothic Dolphins’ on youtube.com and you’ll see clips )
I would have to say that the Pescado can surf off the tail with a bit more ease, than the Board in the footage you refer to. It really is an “easier” board to carve around. You can turn in much tighter arcs, with a foot closer to the tail, or you can get you weight forward and get a fair bit of glide out of the middle of the board. No need to grab the rail and ease into a cut back- More like shift you weight back a bit, bury the rail and re direct. Kind of unusual for the rail config. that it has, but it works!
Sounds like it rides just like my Wilderness Stubbie. You can trim nicely from the center/front of the board yet still turn off the tail in an instant. Something you absolutely cannot do with a regular hull. But boy these modified versions sure as hell are fun.
Saw a Pescado at Malibu Ocean Sports last spring. Very interesting design with plenty of fullness. If I had known then, what I know now, I would have grabbed it right away.
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You can turn in much tighter arcs, with a foot closer to the tail, or you can get you weight forward and get a fair bit of glide out of the middle of the board.
Almost sounds like a TK Fish… hence “Pescado”, but i’m surprised to hear everyone praise it’s ability to glide with Thruster arrangment. This surfing off knifey rails … hmmmm…definately the one sesh i’ve had with my new Liddle in a nicely formed PB had a different feel, which i’m only to eager to experience again.
well if anyone ever comes across some pics of a Pescado in actions – por favor post some pics here!
The pics in the TSJ article on Stubbies, on the yellow board is Alex Kopps on a Pescado 6’4’’ with a 2plus1 set up with small side fins and a Greenough aims 8’’ in the center it does not ride like Siglo. Steve is spot on with his explanation.
my friend that has one-the guy who’s surfed it all over per previous post,tuned me in yesterday to what fins he is using.got rid of original(red-x maybe?) fins and out in glass al merrick 2’s(?) which are a bit fuller type tri-fin.liked those a lot, then he tried al merrick (1’s?) which were the smaller fins in his ci thruster.he sadi the 2’s were great for full on forward speed lines but has found that 1’s allowed the board to surf more like his ci board.in other words, can do more turns, go vertical, etc. a lot easier…
ps- i think thats what he called the fins.as i am not privvy to tri-fins i am not exactly sure what is what, but i think that’s what he was calling them…
Here a pic of two Andreini Pescados, I’m trying to understand how to size up the images on my mac… will post you some rail images as soon as I have it sorted.
Two more, rail and bottom, epoxy, 6’10" by 23" with future boxes…
