This showed up at the beach the other day. I made this around 1978. The guy that had it surfed it good.
Cool board Ace!
Interesting how contemporary the outline is.
Interesting fin setup… They look small and pretty far off the rail to my (amateur) eye.
…and check out the rails - tucked, down rails all the way around. There is a discussion on the erbb about this very thing right now…
“When was the last time a pro tried a flat bottom , hard tucked -foiled edge nose to tail with custom fins for it? Its very possible they can’t imagine how well this works, and has worked for 30 years .” - Greg Griffin
I agree - very cool board. I love the outline - looks kinda morning-of-the-earth-ish to me.
I like that board in 2012!
cheers for posting that , Ace !!
q's , if I may ? : -
.....Is it something like 5'8 x 20 "
fins... 6 " deep x 5" base twinnys , at around 10" up ?
thickness 2 3/4 -3" thick ,
tail.... 10" pod [ tail tip to tip]
....just guesses ....
how wide would the nose and tail be on that , and what sort of rocker , please ??
cheers
ben
nice board! I noticed the fin layout too , close together and quite far forward for a twin?
I have enough trouble remembering yesterday. Since I had not seen this one in 34 years even tougher.The guy asked if I would make another I said YES. Hopefully he does so I can spec it better. It was probably 6’ long. 5’ 8" back then was not too common. 20 1/2" wide maybe. Rocker still the same as I use now, Kinda “fishie” 4" nose 1-1/2" tail ?. Tail width at 15" maybe. I do not carry a tape measure to the beach.
What really opened 'em up was the fin placement, Off the rails (like the “tracking” fish) to under your feet. I was riding twins in everything back then and spent a lot of time hacking off fins and putting 'em back on.
I ended up making a jig that had the distance caster and camber already set. 10" up and 10" apart maybe. I might still have a balsa replica survivor somewhere around my house.Maybe under the bed. When the wife wakes up I will look…
I really liked 'em but not for everybody around here back then. Single fins were still the norm, I used to get a lot of snickers carrying a two fin surfboard across the beaches. I knew I had a good one when you pushed it through the water and it wanted to squiggle back and forth rather than go in a straight line.
Thrusters came along and slowed down the twin fins made 'em more user friendly. I got a “job” shaping Bonzers and these little twins just went away…Till the other day.
In late '69 early '70 Ron Cunningham shaped me a 5’8" twin fin. He had been shaping Twins, Downrailers and the prettiest Eggs you’ll ever see. The fins were set closer to the rail than yours and no toe. The guy shaped the prettiest rail I had seen for that era. At 5’8 I wanted a board that would fit in the back seat of a V-dub when hitch hiking up and down Mission Blvd from the Cliffs to Windandsea and Back to PB where I lived. Wish I still had it. Probably wouldn’t ride it much, but it was pretty to look at, I remember seeing alot of super short, thick single fins shaped by Hank back then too.
It's a nice looking board Ace. I say that for the san Diego area twin other then fish were rare. In those same years seems that 1/2 the Surfers in The LA area were riding some version of a MR twin. At that time i was living in far south OB surfing unnamed breaks in an unnamed area riding a modified egg style Nectar per thruster. We Called " The Angry Inch Model"
I’ve sometimes wondered what happened to some of the boards I’ve shaped throughout the past 20 yrs. In your case 1978 is quite a ways back. That outline looks so contemporary. You could have told us you made it a ways after that year and no one would have blinked an eye. I once ran into guy with a board I shaped in the early 90s for a friend and wished I had offered to buy it back from him.
Ron Cunnigham, I remember when he was shaping “Hamels”.
I was one of the few guys taking the Fish stuff out of the southern reefs and putting em to use other places. Skip and I worked together on some pretty nice ones at a spot we both surfed A LOT back then. I liked this style board better than the Fish.
It was fun times back then.
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I have enough trouble remembering yesterday. Since I had not seen this one in 34 years even tougher.
The guy asked if I would make another I said YES. Hopefully he does so I can spec it better.
It was probably 6' long.
5' 8" back then was not too common.
20 1/2" wide maybe.
Rocker still the same as I use now,
Kinda "fishie" 4" nose 1-1/2" tail ?.
Tail width at 15" maybe.
I do not carry a tape measure to the beach.
What really opened 'em up was the fin placement, Off the rails (like the "tracking" fish) to under your feet......
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thanks , Ace !
.... I guess I must be the only 'weirdo' that carries a tape measure with me then , eh ?
[except when surfing] :)
side fins under your feet makes sense to me.
[McTavish said the same in an interview quite a few years ago now , regarding the boards he makes nowadays ]
cheers !
ben
Cool outline Ace. Don’t you just love it when some kid shows you his new board with his shapers new outline." Huh, kinda looks like something I did 30 years ago".
Just made something similar to that. But it has four fins. Now I’m gunna call it “The Ace”
These “Newbies” need to look to the past. We all did it way before them.
It’s cool to see boards you did so long ago eh?
I’d love to see the modern version!
Get in that shaping bay and make it happen.
Barry