Thinning out the quiver, and the penguin just isn’t getting ridden… So if you’ve ever been curious about the fat penguin, but just can’t justify the giggle $200/ft price from the original designer, then this is your big chance!
Made from a complete full-size template drawn up by the original designer out of home depot foam and RR epoxy, and recently extensively repaired, this board is ready for the water. A fresh coat of white epoxy appliance paint obscures the discoloration, repair marks and ugly original paint job, while throwing the odd lumps and bumps from patches and shaping inadequacies into beautiful relief. Board also comes with full compliment of 7 fins and boxes, allowing virtually endless combinations of fin configurations. If there is a fin setup that will really make this shape go off, then you should be able to find it.
I’m letting it go at the low, low, LOW materials-cost price of $150. $150?! He must be CRRRRRAAAAAZY! Plus shipping which will add somewhere in the neighborhood of $75 within the continental US. Will also entertain any and all offers of trade. Feel free to PM me, as I understand the possible stigma attached to publicly expressing an interest in this board.
Aww…why did I go and log on this morning? Breakfast was nearly settled, not much rain in the forecast, no major catastrophes in the news, the shoulder was feeling better after switching to the thumb first out of the water technique…and then the fat penguin is the first thing I see…
Thanks for not trying to hurt my feelings, guys. sniff
But seriously, I know it’s ugly and virtually unmarketable. But it’s not unridable, and I can’t be the only fool… oops, I mean sucker… damn, that is, innovation-loving neophyte/neophile who thought it was worth a go.
In all honesty, it does ride, it is loose and fast, and it does catch waves easily and quickly. But it is butt-ugly, and the bottom-turn takes some major adjustment.
I’ll try to hold back the tears as you all laugh and point…
All of a sudden I’m flashing back to 7th grade; I have a mullet, an earring, a JimmyZ shirt and a weight problem. I’m the whitest boy at Kealakehe Jr High, and the locals are moving in for the kill.
But really, I hope everyone can see my tongue planted firmly in cheek on this one. I don’t have high hopes here, but I do want to get rid of it. So I had one real dead-end out of 12 boards so far, I can handle those odds. If I hadn’t been embracing new and different ideas, I would never have gotten hooked on bonzers, or wood/epoxy/epx sandwiches…
But yeah, I guess I should be more careful in the future about who and what I embrace… A person could catch something that way.
i got a idea…if you cant sell it, donated to some aeronautical or hydro-ocean engineering school…that way some sharp grad student can tell us why it works so well…
I found this post in the archives while searching for unrelated, from T.E. (The designer?) for those of you who don’t know the FP story.
YOu are hungry Matt!! slow moves with quiet effortlessness…one bit at a time…water and air are both classed as fluids…space is undergoing a reclassification from a gasless void to a plasma filled atmoshpere…in time it will stick…then who knows maybe theyll define it another way down the line? Two densities yes…FP wraps the fluid over a lifting body some of it just happens to stickout so you can stand on it… To explain the relative applications of each subcomponent is the easiest way to define the FP… WHAT IS AN INTERGRATED FLOW FORM “FLUID GLIDER” Answer- The Fat Penguin is comprised of subsections. (1) NOSE (2) TAIL (3) BOTTOM (4) DECK (5) WINGS (6) RAIL LINE (7) FINS DECK The deck draws on “Benoulies priciples” to create a narrow waist to encourage the fluid flow to hug the body form eg. Spitster boatail bullet, SR.71 Blackbird, Migs, f16. NOSE The nose is like a big wave speed board built to drive, great for late take offs. It has a low area high speed profile that smoothes out chop and has the ability to really attack a wave TAIL Slightly rounded 5"to 6" Square tail chosen for stability and to give a straighter and faster rear rail line with small enough surface area enabling high speed cutbacks. Works well high in a wave and suits vertical manoeuvers. BOTTOM The concave provides lift, you cannot compress a liquid so it accelerates, by the time it reaches the tip of the concave the fluid is moving faster than the fluid at the edge of the board. The concave tip shape is very important, it directs the accelerated fluid flow to the sudden tail lift. Sudden tail lift at the end of the concave running into the back of the board encourages the rear stern pressure waves to return early under the tail of the board, creating a high pressure zone under the tail recycling energy rather than throwing it away as spray. The end of the wings steps in from a larger area to a smaller surface area into the tail quickly - great for snap turns. Vee bottom for stability, cutbacks and tight hard turns. Work on stern pressure waves Prof Dubeur. WINGS The wings are called pectoral flyers, they add stability and lift when trimming or driving and their effect is very noticeable in white water. - to provide surface area and lift at low speed. - - to create a rear section Rail line of a modern short board 19.5" wide. - - change of rocker. In full rail bottom turns you use the full rocker for big arcs, the wings at speed are neutral stabilisers you wouldn`t know they were there. For short radius turns the change in rocker makes this easy - check out your surf photos of surfers doing cutbacks or tight top slashes, they are only using the back half of their boards. The wing chord profile is a copy of a mach 2.5 flow form. RAIL LINE The rail line is hard and low at the nose and progressively softens to the boards widest point, the back one third of the rail is hard and low. FINS There are two sets of fins on the FP. The front set are called VENTRAL FINS and are there to stop yawing at high speed and in a tight turn they act like a carnard wing helping steer the board round them. The rear fins are a set of twin fins about the size of a single fin with the base area cut away to make them loose at low speeds. The third thruster fin was made redundant by the pintail concave and tail relief. http://www.geocities.com/wunderboyi/ninetysixpercent.html
As you have told, it needs some adjustments while bottom turning…Ok, it’s like a bike with pedaling problems, or a skateboard that rash its rails when you are making turns, etc, etc, etc… Please, donate it to a Bizarre Museum…What size is it? Is it possible to reshape it for a gromm? I think it’s the seventh trumpet of apocallipse…The end is near…Let me go surfing before…
Now please, lets let this thread die and just pretend I never ever even brought the subject up again. I posted it with my tounge firmly in cheek, but I had forgotten the track record of this particular design around here. This is not the board I want to be remembered on swaylocks for.
