We’ve all (hopefully) had magic boards over the years that just had that special mojo. My single favorite is an 8’0 thruster pin semi-gun Doug Schroedel made me in 94’ that was just…magic. One day my son will paddle my ashes out on that battered old warhorse.
This is my favorite…taken when it was new and unwaxed. I’ve been surfing it for a while now, and I really like it because it works well in small to well overhead surf. fast and smooth, and it makes sections I never thought I could make. 7’6x22x3
Hey Rhino, on your next board you’ve got to make that x ray into a laminate!
Hope you’re healed up OK.
When I started working for a woodworker he was showing me how to use the different tools. He had a huge Oliver jointer. To demonstrate its lethality he put a hot dog on a stick and stuck it into the spinning blades and then showed me the mulch underneath, saying, “There’s your finger if you f…k up.”
I’ve enjoyed all the new short boards I’ve bought from shops over the last 35 years. They were always my favorite board ever… until I decided I needed a new board.
The Griffin 5-fin fish fits somewhere near the top of the list if not at the top right now. For the boards I’ve made this one with Robin Mair’s hammer fin quad setup is my go to when the waves are good.
Pretty much every board ends up being a favorite after a while, but the board I remember having the most fun on was my little brothers 5-2 Canyon twin fin (second from left). I’m on the far right with the 5-6 Wave Tools swallow tail winged thruster, that I hated. But I used to take my little brothers Canyon out all the time, and it was so fun. Thick and fast, but loose in the tail. Exactly how a twin fin fish should be.