Gday redbloke - new to forum. Very interested in how your new board surfs. How did the quads go. I’ve got a G&S Big Boy Fish around 9ft, has single 9" single fin with a couple of 2" side bites and was thinking of changing to twin just to see how it handles. Why did you go quad and not thruster or 2 + 1? Cheers
Hi Goosebrain!!
The board surfs amazingly well. Gets up and planes quickly, catches waves easily, loose for a big board and very fast down the line. Despite what the others say, this thing is FUN! I love the quads, loads of drive, but still flows nice. Enjoy your Big Boy Fish! Have a great day!
Is that a Stewart "hydro hull" style chine rail on the bottom I see? Some of the pics came out real small...
Hi Huck,
No that’s just the way the light is reflecting up from the ground, there is a slight chimed rail on the nose, then 60/40 through the middle, into full downrails all the way back to the tail. The bottom shape is pretty much flat, no concave. I had a Hydro -Hull once, it’s nothing like it at all!
If you Like that Board you should check The Boards made by Surfboards La Jolla in the early 60's
Gday Artz,
Did they shape big fish? Got any pics?
The Mirandon brothers made some fantastic lookin fishtailed big boards, well advanced for the time!
Guess the very early fish were actually longboards with swallow tails. Was it a marketing angle or was there a demonstrated advantage having a swallow in certain types of waves.
Hey redbloke - would be interested in having direct comparison with your muscle fish and an exact copy with say square or round tail in the same kind of surf.
The Mirandon brothers were way way a head of their time. I found a photo of Rusty Preisendorfer holding a Surfboards la Jolla Fish that looks to be around 6'8". The photo is from around 1969. I have surfed on one of their early 9'8" split tail twin fin boards made sometime in the mid 1960's it worked great for a board from that era. Simmons The Mirandon Brothers had a big influence on Steve Lis. Lis made Fish to surf the reefs around San Diego. anyone who says fish do not work in hollow surf just does not know how to ride a Fish.
Those boards were in no way gimmicks or marketing ploys. They were honest efforts to find more effective ways to surf.
goosebrain do a web search for Surfboards La Jolla and do one for Bear Mirandon. I am an old geezer with very poor computer skills.
You have a nice looking board redbloke, but it is not anything that has not already been done. Kane Garden has a full line of larger Fish other San Diego area shapes have their versions.
Since your talking about fish:
Chris from OZ living the dream on the Island of NINAMU, TAHITI
Kind regards,
surfding
So That's what they look like out of the can! Nice big tasty fish.
Gday Artz, tried to look on Kane Garden’s web-site but no luck - did find some examples of his fish in on-line version of Surfer Magazine. Is it me or is the term “big fish” cover boards in the 6’ to 7’ range? Really dont see too many shapers these days making fish in the over 8 foot range??? Nor do you see many early 60’s split/swallow tails for sale - didnt any survive?
Do you still have your 9’8" split fin - I could only imagine the controversy on this type of shape in the 60’s where LB’s whould mostly have been square or even perhaps pin tails
Would this board paddle well for a fat bastard? Also can you share the length, nose width, centre width and tail width for this board?
The latest in fish design?
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Fish Design
no such island as" Ninamu",does not exist,please don’t use that,respect the locals,respect the names.
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Does 9 foot count as a big Fish?
If a Whale Shark can clock in at 65 feet, then why not??