HANSEN Stratoglas (???)

My friend has an interesting looking hollow-body twin fin with a logo that reads, “Hansen Stratoglas 879”. I think it’s a 6 footer. It’s bright orange and very thick with two fin boxes. Anyone got any info. on this board? Kirk

My friend has an interesting looking hollow-body twin fin with a logo that > reads, “Hansen Stratoglas 879”. I think it’s a 6 footer. It’s > bright orange and very thick with two fin boxes.>>> Anyone got any info. on this board?>>> Kirk Kirk, This is a Hansen hollow board made in 1970/71. They were very sophisticated boards, and along with the twin fin model, there was an early Gerry Lopez single fin semi-gun model too…a few years before he became world famous. The Hansen hollow board pre-dated Karl Pope’s HOLLOW WAVE boards by a year or so, but Hansen never pursued the concept any further.

My friend has an interesting looking hollow-body twin fin with a logo that > reads, “Hansen Stratoglas 879”. I think it’s a 6 footer. It’s > bright orange and very thick with two fin boxes.>>> Anyone got any info. on this board?>>> Kirk Kirk…Introduced approx. 1970. I had a 5’ 8" twinny when I was 13 and it was the worst thing I ever had ride wise. There should be an air hole at the nose. This was to equalize the pressure as it would heat up in the sun and the air molecules would expand in the hollow interior which could actually cause the board to weaken and seperate at the seams along the rails from exspansion. It was touted to be indistructable and was demoed at the surf shop by hitting a rubber mallet as hard as you could anywhere on the board to show it was impossible to ding. It was a reponse to the Hollow honeycomb board which came out at the same time. I actually have a belly board that is a Statoglass in my livingroom. Interesting attempt to move into the future but rode like shit! If it’s in good shape then you have a piece of surf history. It would intersting to see what it would bring on E-Bay. JC