post modern spoonage
Yeah! Sally always stylish. I highly recommend going to the Klapper gallery for the Yater Ancell show, pictures dont show how awsome these boards are. Love my 9’10’’ Yaterspoon classic.
Long time ago I rescued a Yater spoon from a friends “junk heap” in the ivy beside his house. Brown from sun and bunch of delams and warped with a slight twist. Patched it up and found it to be the most fun, smoothest cruising long board I have ever ridden before or since. Nose ridding as long as I wanted to stay up there, rail to rail speed pumps from the middle, good solid tail turning too. Wish I still had it.
I surfed a Yater Surftech Stepdeck Spoon for a while, it was a quality ride. I could never quite get used to the flex of the materials though. It was a personal issue, not a functional one. Although i read in one of these threads that these Yater Surftechs are weaker than they appear and one even buckled on a turtle dive. Either way, those things are expensive.
I remember how easily that board would pump down the line, it was exhilirating since I normally surf a 10’ Jacobs Classic and that thing is a ‘choose your line and stick with it’ board. The Yaters don’t noseride that well, but whatever. its a fun board, especially with the Yater fin. It gives a little flexy drive power, I found I could accelerate out of the bottom turn from around the middle of the board in Chest high waves.
anyways, i finally decided that if i wanted to do that i didnt need a $1000 fancy board that flexed when i paddled into whitewater or when chop hit the hull. I could just pull out the 9’ Dave Johnson. Soon maybe I will sell even that, and pull out one I made myself…getting ready for #1. I dont know though, that Dave Johnson is a sweet nut of a board.
Kelby
Hi Jonathan -
I saw that auction the other day. As nice as it is, I’ll be surprised if she gets that high of a bid. Granted, vintage Yaters aren’t available in that condition very often but my take is that she’s assigning a fair degree of her own sentimental value to that particular board. That said, some Yater fans are rabid enough, she just might get it. Lots of sentimental attraction in those old ones for the long time Yater riders. Very rare to see the complete removable fin like that one.
I’ve had the board that I bought when I started this thread for almost a year now. For me, it’s been a completely magical board. I asked for a ‘classic spoon’ when I ordered it, and that’s what I got. In fact, it looks very much like the one in that ebay auction posted above.
Also, Kelby… I was charged well under 1000$ (of course, pre-clark)… You should consider picking up a non-surftech model if he begins taking orders again. Certainly I don’t notice any flexing while paddling 
I had been makin me own fer eight years
I figured I was ready for a tune up
I ordered a new yater
it was 1976
I rode it had a great time
took it to samoa
I contemplated going back to being a yater diciple
I phoned the man aand asked about ordering a few to resell
he seemed to be of the opinion it was better to make em here
after shipping the materials than shipping finished boards,
expense you see…for shipping.
I decided nothing was better than making em myself.
these pictures,this gallerry show,darkened downtown,wow.
true fabulosity,hours upon hors of shell inlay work,jeepers.
retail price unconcevieable,and incontrovertable,worthy representations
to aspire to such is a noble quest.
but in all honesty
the session I surfed yesterday
was worth all those boards and more
I wish each and every on a day like that
you know the kind.
the paticulars are more trite you-missed - it -isms
congratulation yater and k ancell.
I hope you can achieve the satisfaction
you deserve…
lust for material wealth is a never end
look ahead to the life road the next bend
the wave is lined up look for the glide
assemble the forms
these are the best days ever
seize and enjoy,
the no paddle take off,
and the two hundred yard
ride.
…ambrose…
Hi John- The price is a bit silly. I do love the board and the story. I know where there is a similar condition one (9’6")in my area and am just waiting to find the “right” trade item for it. My son rode it and said it was “amazing”. Personally, I like my riders to be a bit more beat so I don’t have to worry about the inevitable. All the Yaters I have ridden have been to my liking. We had a Lauren Yater noserider that was super! It was Oliver Parker’s old team board and it was one of the funnest boards in memory. We bought it beat and rode it till there was nothing left! It was the kind of board people would try out and then borrow it to take to their shaper to copy. Off to work!
I can’t stop checking that board on ebay out! I did notice one pretty huge difference between my new ‘classic spoon’ and that one though…
Fin placement. The vintage board’s fin is all the way back:
Mine’s way forward:
I’m surprised he’s moved them that much over the years. I love the fin position on mine. It feels much more nimble than my last board, where I sat the fin way back in the box.
Howzit Brother Brose, First off I added your plug order and should be here soon. Was that 76 Yater the same one that Andy Melonhead bought from you? if it is I bought it from him in late 70’s since he didn’t like it but I found it to be a great board and it’s still in the garage. I named it the self correcting board since it was so easy to ride in any conditions and rode it in waves up to 8 ft Hawaiian. Aloha,Kokua
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