My wife bought this Huerta twin fin on ebay, I picked it up today in Brentwood, near where I’m currently working in Pacific Palisades. Its gone yellow and the color on the bottom is faded, its got a lot of really crappy ding repairs, and the tail is shot, but overall its in decent shape, the foam feels strong, the deck is not crushed.
I’m thinking of restoring it to surfable condition. I’ve restored several of these old boards with RR epoxy, so if I do maybe I’ll get motivated and post up a thread showing how I do it, if anyone cares. The question does pop up from time to time.
I haven’t cleaned it up, maybe I’ll feel different after I do, but right now I’m feeling optimistic about it. Might even build a “big boy” version for myself, haha.
I got hold of Steve Huerta he said the box was for a small trailer, something about controlled tail slides.
And he’s super stoked on my rare find, so I guess I won’t be restoring it, looks like he will but after I make a big boy version for myself and steal all his secret sauce lol.
First thing that occurred to me when I saw that pic was “MR-style twin+trailer, and which is adjustable via the centre-box”.
Stoked to hear Steve confirmed that hypothesis :)
So how come your missus bought it? Was it for you? For her? For someone else?.. perhaps she thought you had too much spare time on your hands right now, and picking this up for you to restore would keep you off the streets and out of trouble? E.g. “Hell’s Grannies”:
So, as the Baby Boomer generation keeps heading into retirement, can we expect an 18-year long, constantly growing wave of pension-fuelled crime and violence from bored, layabout retiree’s? Time will only tell.
So I say good on your missus for doing her bit to keep the L.A. crime rate down, and Huck out of trouble by purchasing that old Huerta board.
Very civically minded of her. A toast to Mrs Huck! And please Mrs Huck, keep up the good work.
Hey Lowel he was super stoked, “rare find” was the term he used. I told him I wanted to restore it he said no I want it as is.
LIT my wife saw it on eBay, asked me about it. I said I knew the shaper. She bought it to resell, that’s what she does, but of course it’s always honey can you fix this for me first? But she’s stoked to hear how excited Steve got when I told him about it.
Cleaned it up a bit. Victim of some really bad amateur ding repair work. Not doing any repairs, just cleanup. And a few observations. The board has soft rails through the middle, with a tuck at about 1/2" in, at the widest. Concave bottom in front of the channels. Carries the volume out to the rails, and not foiled real thin in the nose or tail, so quite a bit of volume. Must surely have been 6’7" before the tail was busted up. I could almost ride this thing at this size.
Twin fins are canted about a quarter inch, and toed in about a quarter inch. The convergence point looks to be about 10" in font of the nose. Rocker about 5" in the nose, about 2 1/4" in the tail.
So for my “old guy” version, I’m thinking of adding 5" in length, to make it a 7 footer, by 22.5" wide. I’m looking at US Blanks’ 7’3"A, looks like the right blank to build what I want to build.
but after I make a big boy version for myself and steal all his secret sauce lol.
