some interesting stuff out there on this shape... (I'd love to try one - btw, did you say you shaped a gemini, the catamaran of surfboards? - I'd like to try one of them too)
i had those plans as well as plans for roy’s dragonboard
a couple projects i never seemed to find the time or motivation to get done
i thinking of somehow molding those two big fins right from the bottom like you see in some of these new finless designs they are making.
Tom Morey had a similar design back in '71 where the two fins were extensions from the rail into the tail with huge concaves or maybe now his new bevel rails and a big step 3/4 down the board with an air injector in the middle. I believe a prototype sold years ago at one of Randy Rarick’s Surf Auctions. Brewer did something similar for Owl Chapman a couple of years later with his one of swallow tail designs and those new tri-fin designs with the half moon side fins. there was a picture of Owl sitting on the grass next to the board in an article insurfer magazine back then in the 70’s. In the 80’s-early 90’s Ben Aipa was doing allot of longboards with those Morey beveled rails in the tail area.
couldn't be any worse than trying to make a 4" thick gemini for steamroller
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Wait a minute - I almost missed that. Steamroller - the Hawaiian dude built like brick house who rides SUPs at Malibu, when he's not in da islands? Met him at Malibu one day last year when he locked his keys in the car, funny guy, did you see the video of him attacking his inflatable SUP?
before i got epoxy poisoning, I was trying to make this compsando version below for clinton but i screwed up the bottom lam and still need to fix it
the guys a tough one mean he’s 240-260 and 5’9"-5’10" all muscle too. He bought a little used 6’4" awhile back but it was too small.
nothing like a twin nosed wiliwili wood speed monster with a 250lb hawaiian moke flying down the line wearing no wetsuit and a pink baseball hat to liven up a line up like malibu.
I really don’t have any tips except have fun shaping it! No sarcasm at all, it was actually one of the most fun shaping projects I have ever undertaken. I was lucky to have full scale plans sent from the fp guy, so that helped, but it could probably be done from those posted drawings without too much trouble.
Mine suffered from a number of problems not related to the shape (bad homemade blank, wrong fins, etc…), so I don’t think I really got to give it a fair shake… Maybe I should try again too?
When I first saw him at Malibu some years back…he was riding a motorcycle to the beach with a blow up longboard in his back pack. He would pump it up and go out and surf better than most. He is very active out there, but his Aloha always endears him to most of us!!
