Fat Penguin fever

gonna do it for the sake of doing it.

but i got fat penguin fever especially seeing all these new finless designs popping up here

got some plans from PC back in the day

but since Jarrod is the only one who actually built one way back when(i know cause i sent him the fins for it)

any advice Mr. Shwuz?

Gonna make my own 4" thick eps ewa hacker style blank for the beast, no sense wasting good foam on the monster

couldn’t be any worse than trying to make a 4" thick gemini for steamroller, probably is though with those rail concaves.

keep ya’ll posted

i think it’ll be a good foam sculpting project for sure

maybe a mix of good old Tom Morey’s original air injected design and the FP mixed togethor

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go for it!

holy crap! my mind has just been blown. the fat penguin? wow

Oneula,

I have the plans saved if you are missing a sheet,

been mulling over building one for me, just can’t commit,

keep us informed along the way, may just have to do it.

Pete

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)

http://surflibrary.org/SurfLibrary_files/FtPeng.html

http://www.theleader.com.au/news/local/news/general/surfs-up-for-fat-penguins/1634944.aspx

http://www2.swaylocks.com/node/1005996

yeah huck

got 4 under my belt

3 compsands

1 a CNC’d PU from the factory

I also have a 6’8" custom

and a 9’ longboard version believe it or not

I also have the original7’6" REX Manta or what was termed the Picklefork Board

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g2

rex1

rex2

 

hey thanks Pete i’ll PM an address

I was trying to dig through my stuff to find mine

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.

 

All,

I got a few requests for this, so I figured I would post up what I have.

Hope my web skills are up to it.

Pete






surfboard building isn't rocket science - wait!  I just saw the fat penguin - yes it is!!

...just a really interesting looking board!

Freak!

I don’t want any part of that. Looks like a nightmare to shape just right and a nightmare to glass. 

I will be happy to test ride it though.

This is wrong on so many levels.  But I can’t stop watching.

i laughed when i saw it at scott dillon's surf museum near coffs harbour , ten years ago ....

 

  i laughed with sharkcountry['s comment] 10 minutes ago

 

curiousity makes me wonder but .....yep , gotta say i agree with harry on this one !

 

  but good on ya , Bernie , for entertaining "ghettorat " with this one [i hope !]...

 

i will watch this thread with merriment / a mix of curiousity , and intrigue .... I can't wait to see it being RIDDEN ,  too, of course .....

 

riding it could be fun !

 

......  thanks pete itz , for putting up plans here ! 

 

  and i hope jarrod ['shwuz']  chimes in with HIS experiences here , too !!

 

  cheers guys !

 

  ben

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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?

yup 

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.

 

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...240-260 and 5'9"-5'10" all muscle ...hawaiian moke flying down the line wearing no wetsuit and a pink baseball hat... 

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OK, no question, that's him hahaha!

(Sorry to hear about the epoxy poisoning)   Awesome looking boards, hope you can post up some more pics when you get 'em finished.

Oh my god, awesome!

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? :wink:

yeah do it jarrod !!

 

  please

Shwuz,

I was looking through theplans in possible anticipationof starting,

my stuff does not seem to have a real clear rocker, I can drop the jpegs

into cad, and get real close, do you have any rocker numbers?

thanks,

Pete

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OK, no question, that’s him hahaha!

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!!

roger