this is a craigslist find and sometimes I wonder what I’m thinking. anyway I picked this up for $80 with the idea it would either be my Cali board at my friend’s house or a travel board I wouldn’t be too upset if it were lost or damaged badly. as you can see she’s been around and one of my cockamamie ideas was to hack off the fins and make her into a quad or twin with tri-fin box. there were three ugly ding repair patches on the deck that I got most of the trash off. the fin you see missing had one of the worst fin repairs I’ve seen and I’ve done one or two ugly ones that looked pro compared to this. as I was chiseling away at the ding “repair” I popped the whole fin off. normally I would’ve strung a bunch of curse words together but honestly I’d rather pay to have it replaced or plugs or a box put in. one interesting thing about the board is that is in solid condition but where some of the logos are it looks like it’s delaminated. the logos are raised and you can feel them when you run your hand over them but if you knock on the glass it’s solid and doesn’t sponge like a delam spot. if you have any info as to the origins of the board or any suggestions for my project I’d love to hear them.
Greg does post here now and again. Might send a message and see if he can tell you anything about that Board. He was inducted into The Surfboard shapers hall of Fame. and was honored to have his 7’7" Porto Rico gun used fora shape off Completion at The Surf Expo in last weekend in Florida. Greg is a good guy lots of insight and one of the people that has opened up a lot of the possibilities on how we make boards today.
yeah I had a 7’2" shape of his a while back. the main difference between the two besides the length is this one is a swallow tail and the other was a rounded pin. I have a Mystic epoxy fish shaped by Jim Dunlop from Jax Beach, FL. I asked him when he started doing epoxy and he said right after Clark Foam went under. he went down and learned as much as he could from Greg and Steve Forstall before he started shaping epoxy blanks. and I did see the post about Sam Barker shaping a Greg Loehr shape.
I’ve seen a couple of those floating around too. she’s in really good shape.
I made a twingle out of my Greg Loehr. Fun board, fun shape, and a lot of foam to work with. I’d pick another up in a second (if it was under $80). If it was me, I’d sand the whole thing down to the laminate and reglass. I like your plug/finbox idea.
I’ve thought about sanding the hell out of it too because there are a few bubbled spots, not really delam but they’d look better if I sanded them down and glassed back over. there are also quite a few pock marks that could probably use some glass in them. I’m going to see how much the project will run but I’m thinking I may have the fin replaced, hack off the tri-fin and replace it with a box. that way it can be ridden as a twinnie or if the waves get bigger or just a solid ground swell, the tri-fin can be added or I guess a single as your term twingle suggests.
twin-single
whoa, just when you think you’ve seen it all. interesting, how does it ride and what’s the theory behind that setup? also if anybody could tell me which setup to use with the tri-fin to move the pivot point forward a bit would be good. I know O’Fish’l used to have a tri-fin set that had the trailer fin smaller I think to achieve the effect. or was it larger?
Search the term twingle in Sway’s search bar and/or search Thrailkill, he invented it (afaik). I love how mine rides. The only (very) small complaint I have is that it makes the tail slightly heavier.
is that the Greg Loehr? if that’s a 6 foot fence that’s a shorty. I wouldn’t want to go any shorter than this 6’10" and I’m guessing the epoxy will make it a bit more floaty. one other thing about the board I forgot to mention is that it is still super light.
5’8"