Hello everyone, my name is Cristian, I am from Argentina, I have found this beautiful and interesting forum, I have already read a few “discussions”, many people with great knowledge and a lot of experience.
I am dedicated to making miniature boards, replicas and with my brand, but the vast majority are beyond my knowledge, I try to investigate as best as possible but my young age and difficulty with the language are barriers that I try to overcome. By the way, I am using a translator.
Getting to the point, I am working on a Hobie super mini Corky Carroll and I have 2 questions,
About the Hobie logo “graffiti style”, what do you know about the use of that graphic and the one used later?
The Fin, which one was used on that board? I know about the DogBone system but I can’t find a photo of the fin profile.
OK. I don’t know about that resin color work, but the rest of it is pretty norm for a CC Mini of that era. I had one that was in great shape. Can’t remember the color, but it was a green or yellow cutlap onto the deck. Sold it to a guy who was thrilled to have as it was in great shape and those boards were great riders.
Been quite a few years back; but I think it was a Polypropylene molded fin. Wide base, cut out in the middle with a wide rounded tip. I am thinking it was a lot like the early molded Yater fins. ‘Bout all I can recall.
Actually, that looks like an earlier fin that was on the regular long boards and Corky Carrol “mini models”, more like an early “skeg” than a fin. The picture of the board you posted is of a “super mini” model, and I happen to have one very similar to it, 8 foot with a more blue acid splash glass job. It belonged to my big bro and it was handed down to me many many decades ago. Anyway, mine came with a much rakier fin and they flexed quite a bit. I used to ride it on smaller days at Malibu and certain peaky beach breaks and it got really good snap acceleration on bottom turns and you could feel the tail slip sideways a bit when dropping under a white water section. I’ll post a picture later when I get chance to pull it out of the garage…
OK, sorry about the delay! I got both the board and the fin out of my garage and shed and took some pics, hopefully they’re good! I included pictures with a tape measure in them so you can get a better idea of the size. The board itself is 8’1’’ by 23 3/4! It’s definitely a wide one! And it has quite a bit of vee in the bottom. At some point I want to take it to a super professional repair artist to restore it. It really just needs ding repair that’s color matched and then a good sand and new gloss coat. It’s acually in pretty damn good shape considering it’s age!
I love all kinds of boards, I mainly short board but love 60’s transition boards, probably because I learned on that Hobie! I grew up near the Con Surfboard shop and my first new boards were from Con in the early 70’s. I’ve been trying to find an early Con Butterfly transition board (like on another thread) but gave up and had one of my dear old shaper freinds that acually shaped at Con for 8 years make me a modern “replica”…just got it a few weeks ago and here it is. Check out that fin! It’s not far from that fin in the Hobie Super Mini!
Hi Anton, thank you so much for taking the time to take the photos. I’m very grateful .
By the way, the board looks beautiful, so much history.
Your contribution will help me make my minisurfboard look even more realistic .
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