I’ve got a customer who wants a replica of a Malibu Chip. Can anyone help me with some basic dimensions for the outline?
I had an old mid fifties Hobie that I took a template of but the paper template got ruined in the rash of hurricanes that we had a few years ago.
The board will be 9’
I’m thinking of taking my Takayama balsa pintail pig, turning it around backwards and squaring off the tail about 10".
Bill, I have a template from Quigg, will that do ?
Perfect.
Thanks Jim.
I’ll send you an email.
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Wow!! I would love to get a copy of a Joe Quigg chip template.
Attached is an outline of a 10' Malibu chip or spoon as I like to call them. Cut the blank to put in a 4" balsa stringer.
[img_assist|nid=1054458|title=Dora Board|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=75]Gordon Quigg has all his Dad’s templates, and makes boards in Haleiwa. I don’t think he would share any templates, but I have a 9’ he made me from one of his Dad’s templates and it rides like a dream.
Finishied shaping the board and dropped it off at the glass shop.
Thank you Jimmy for the template, advice and encouragement.
Build photos here:
http://www.balsabill.com/MalibuModel.htm
It’s done and on the way to Switzerland!
Complete build photos here: http://www.balsabill.com/MalibuModel.htm
Thanks Jimmy for the template. Thanks to Juan Rodriguez for the blank and the fin and thanks to the boys at Quiet Flight for the flawless glass job by Bob Seeback.
Really nice job. Thanks for the link.
Bill, here is the newest balsa for Mark Nelson, it is a 9’0" Simmons, I didn’t have much choice wood from my last bundles, so even if it was to be a wall hanger, I glued it to be chambered.
It is laminated and waiting for me to finish haloing the old growth redwood burl fins
Wow Jimmy. Nice.
That chambering is just too much work for me. You’ve got it down to a science though.
Whenever I think of Simmons I think of him and Flippy Hoffman on the North Shore in 1950 or so. I was sorry to hear when Flippy passed but I remember a trip with him and Walter to Cabo 25 years ago. They had some classic Simmons stories (among others).
Can you imagine Simmons and Flippy staying at Sunset Point back then? I was three years old.
Anyway, that is a classic board. Thanks again for the help on the Malibu Chip.
In one of the Simmons stories, I think it was the Surfing Heritage Museum’s online version, there was a shot of Flippy, out in front, Simmons in the middle, flollowed up with Buzzy behind on a good sized Makaha wave from around then.
Simmons was on one of his designs and seemed to be very much in control, I had thought he had a polio or really gimpy arm, but it wasn’t nearly as bad I imagined it to be.
Quigg and him mixed it up real good at Malibu on several occasions, Quigg complained the Simmons had run him over on purpose several times that day.
Joe punched him and buried his face in the sand and when he let him up, Simmons spit in his face and the beating started over again, but after reading the story a couple of times I saw between the lines. Quigg got run over because he was dropping in on Simmons and with the speed he got from his boards, there was no out running him, Quigg did a Sunny on him for being in the right
Hi Bill -
Super nice! Extra points for doing it outside without a Skil 100!!
Yes Jimmy. There’s a large mural sized copy of that Makaha photo (or one similar) on the wall as you walk into the Hoffman California Fabrics office.
Back in those days “dropping in” wasn’t the offense that it is now. So it wasn’t unusual for someone to drop in, but it was unusual to get run over for it. That’s probably what prompted the fight, Among other things. Who knows?
There’s an interview with Joey Cabell in a (in production and as yet unreleased) video “For the Love of Surfing” where he talks about the World Contest in Australia, early sixties, where judge Phil Edwards decides to enforce an interference rule on Joey in the finals. Joey says, at the time, there was no interference rule. That dropping in was common and actually part of a strategy.
I remember a contest, 1966, in Seaside Heights, N; J. where the finals consisted of Dewey and his team and Propper and Catri. Whenever Propper or Catri took off on a wave, Dewey’s guys (Porkchop and Tom Leonardo) were right on them. There was no interference rule and it made for a very interesting contest. Dewey won and he had every wave to himself.
A couple of days later in Virginia Beach there are some photos (I used to actually have movie film of it) of Codgen taking off in front of Propper and hanging five backside while Propper is doing a fishkiller stall to avoid hitting him. If he would have hit him that would have been the interference. How times have changed.
Of course the old Malibu contests of the Sixties with Dora, Fain, and Dewey fighting it out are legendary and well documented photographically.
Jim, this pic of your workshop area is classic... It looks just like Magnolia St. circa 1980. I see you still have assorted jigs, self-made tools, gadgets, and gizmotrons carefully layered all about. Any conceivable task, you'll dig through there and find just the right doodad - or get an idea and make a better one. The shape on that Simmons is incredibly authentic, but this ain't your first rodeo either....
The board is now in Switzerland and sits on top of its new home: A 1947 Chevy Woodie.
More pics of the car here.
The board doesn't get to go in the chateaux?
