Tony’s new updated, kingsize fish.

Just finished this board for a really talented local surfer and friend of mine named Bob, who also happens to be a great craftsman.

This twinzer fish is the second board I’ve made for a good friend and customer of mine named Tony. I like that he intends to really ride the board on a daily basis as he did his first one. For this board we did all the bells and whistles with a poplar deck patch for extra strength, redwood tail block and rail strips, and custom rising sun style fins made from curly maple, redwood, and cherry. I hope he enjoys riding the board as much as I enjoyed building it. Thanks Tony.

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.

I haven’t posted for a while, so I thought I would show what I’ve been up to. The first board here is a 6’0″ displacement hull style stubbie with a balsa flex fin and the second is a 5’10″ twinzer. I’ve been wanting to make a hull since I helped with RT’s ‘black hull’ stubbie a few months back. I rode his 6′ 8″ Liddle and really liked the casual speed you can get with the design. I already cut out my own and it’s waiting to be shaped. The twinzer is an enlarged copy of a personal board I own, with altered fin templates. I often see one of the original twinzer devotees, Dan Wood at the beach. He used to work with Wil Jobson, who came up with the twinzer concept. I picked his brain a bit about fins and came up with the new templates. Thanks Dan. Thanks also to Bobo Mol and Tony respectively. The two people I had the pleasure of making these boards for. Great customers and great people.