Huck , my comment was for Oldphart
shaper.....his topic would be of far more interest to a lot of people in the
"general" category IMO.......I hope he reads this , and puts it there
if he decides he wants to.
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Hey, I’ll try this in the general post, PLEASE
no bad mouthing Dewey!
Recently
read the Dewey Weber book “Little Man on Wheels” and this probably not news or
very interesting. But a lot of us loved that little phart, many tried to save
him. And like Captain Kirk he knew he would die alone. What a sad story.
You’ll
have to read between the lines on my book review.
Well I never knew Dewey , but I will always be a fan. He killed it at Malibu everytime., and his designs were always progressive and still get used to this day…“the Performer” will always be a classic…he also made serious forays into lighter glassing methods and his classic wedge glue-ups were all-time…never liked those hatchet fins though…
As you
can no doubt assume I’m a Weber kook, being a Malibu “bay rat” it always seems
that Weber had white fins and the flash of his fin just awestruck me and I
always specified a white fin. Rode his boards from 65 to 67 the heyday of the
performers. The first performers typically had a small Tee band stringer and
came with a glassed in hatchet, (way back) your photo w/ black fin. The first
shape was basically conventional but it struck a nerve. Moving on the “new”
performer around 66 with a box style pre Waveset (see photo) and “super scoop” “parallel rails”
and so on, through to the short 2” balsa singler single layer 10oz. with a “Waveset”
fin box, it was then I buried my hatchet and went with the Greenough 3. I can
still remember the “snap” coming off the bottom turns!
The book
is an OK read if you really want to know what happened…
