This board was made for a customer in Japan who’s a fan of the cartoon Speed Racer.

This is a prototype extra short  (5’0″) summer slop board largely inspired by hydrodynamicas hugely popular Mini /Simms models. It’s stringerless EPS epoxy with full pigment. The fins are custom-made EPS foam core (to save weight) single foil (to add drive) mounted with moderate cant and toe. Bottom contours are really basic on this one with a flat bottom to vee in the tail. This board is mine and was made for simple speed and tight turning in slop. Pretty basic – short= quick turns and bigger rudders= more drive. I haven’t been able to ride it yet cuz of my health but hopefully soon.

This is a recent board that I just finished for a good local surfer and friend of mine Jimmy. He’s a board builder as well and has been making some really interesting variations of the Sim’s Fish (a short, wide, thick, twin keeled design distilled from Bob Simmons ideas on planing hulls and promoted and brought to mainstream attention by Richard Kenvin and his Hydrodynamica project) . After riding a fish I had made and liking the spring and speed the board had, he asked if I would make him a version of this design out of wood, using a twinzer setup that he’s been experimenting with. I thought it was a great idea considering Bob Simmons originated the wood over foam sandwich concept as well as this design. Dimensions are 5’10″, 23″ wide, and 2 3/4″ thick. It has belly in the nose, going into a full concave through most of the board, and ending in a double concave with 3/8″ of vee in the tail. It’s glassed with a single 4 oz. layer in epoxy.