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Orange Fish
My play on the traditional fish design with modern adjustments in the rocker and bottom contours. Find its sweet spots and it will provide limitless drive and speed. Great for drawn-out surfing.
Typically built with large glass-on Keel Fins.
I later added side cuts to the outline for smoother release points which became the Squit fish model.
Squit Fish
Same concept as the orange fish but with added side cuts to create quicker rail to rail transitions and release points for tighter turns. More compatible with modern performance surfing without breaking traditional dimensions.
Typically built with large glass-on Keel Fins.
Although the fish is commonly associated with small waves, the orange and Squit fish also excel in medium to large waves with lined up walls and big open faces.
Cuttle Fish
Currently my go-to board for southern California surf. It features a side cut between the feet like the Squit fish but is typically ridden an inch narrower and a few inches longer. It has a relaxed rocker with a scooped-out single concave between the feet, making it quick even on the mushiest most gutless waves. Like most boards that ride great in small weak waves, the cuttle fish tends to feel a bit quirky and out of control once there’s a little juice behind it.
It’s a loose fast groveling machine. A great option if you typically don’t have pumping surf to ride.
High aspect single foil future removable twin fins included.
Toe
Like a mini Simons meets boogie board, the Toe is surprisingly predictable in the water. The bottom contour centralizes pressure allowing the board to hold the rail with ease. The flat planing surface makes the board skate across the water.
It’s Fast, Skatey, Loose, Compact for tight pockets… an ultimate groveler.
High aspect single foil future removable twin fins included.
Painted with a variety of skin tones to resemble a ripped off toe.
Original Asym
The first Asym I ever shaped was a pointy nose narrow fish with one side of the swallow cut short and rounded off.
I put a hybrid twin keel fin on the toe side and a quad set up on the rounded heel side. The board felt so natural under my feet that it launched me into a chapter of experimentation with Asym designs.
The Original design has been minimally altered and almost forgotten until this year. It’s a great compact shortboard with a wide but pointy nose.
A great option for the die-hard shortboarder who wants something loose and fast but doesn’t want to answer a million questions about the strange nose shape in the water.
Future removable Asym fin set Included.
Parallelogram
The parallelogram is an asymmetrical board inspired by the designs of my friend and mentor Carl Ecstrom with a cross-balanced symmetry. Meant to be ridden in the same range as a go-to groveler short board with a little extra width. The straighter rail line in the nose on the heel side can really help draw out a turn or manage the speed that the toe side will naturally produce with its large planing surface.
The parallelogram very unique high speed carving and under the right feet could probably be turned into a propeller in the air.
Future removable Asym fin set Included.
Pickle Fork Twin
The Pickle Fork Twin (Aka Pickled Twin) is the most high-performance board I make. It features an asymmetrical outline with two points in the tail and two points in the nose. It has relatively balanced nose and tail widths and deep single concave running rail to rail throughout the board, deepest before the fins. The nose features an angular plane concave that runs about a foot down from the twin tips. This helps break the flow of water that would otherwise suction to the area of the accelerated curve in the nose. Having the width run throughout the nose adds functional surface area and creates a rail line of a much longer board. The tail is an asymmetrical swallow-tail with slightly offset high-aspect twin fins.
It’s extremely responsive rail to rail and holds well in the steepest parts of the wave.
Best for fast sections and down the line surfing.
High aspect single foil future removable twin fins included.
I ride a 5’9” 18 3/8” 2 3/8”.
For reference, my standard thruster dimensions would be
6’0” 18 5/8” 2 7/16”
Pickle Fork 1+2
A high-performance asymmetrical design much like the pickle fork twin but with slightly more radical asymmetry and a smoother release off the tail. Typically built with future removable fins, one on the toe side using my high aspect twin fin template and two of my cutaway quad fins on the heel side. The tail is great for tight in-the-pocket turns and the toe side rail provides drive and speed.
My dimensions for this board are the same as a Pickle Fork Twin. 5’9” 18 3/8” 2 3/8”.
Egg
Nothing fancy here, just a single fin Egg with the wide point forward, smooth clean lines, and round on both ends. My eggs are mostly flat bottom with a slight panel V in the tail.
A fun option for the everyday conditions we get in San Diego where you have to keep speed in between steep sections.
Exti Zuria
A pintail mid-length single fin with simple lines and a thicker beak nose. It has a relatively flat bottom contour with softer rails in the front third of the board and a panel v with a tucked edge all the way throughout the tail.
This board excels in more powerful surf. I usually ride an 8’6 for a bit of swing, weight, and stability.
Mini Glider
This compact slender shape is a trim machine built for speed. It’s a single fin with plenty of volume packed in for easy paddling. It’s made to be surfed midway up the deck for trim and one step back for turning. At under nine feet long this board still paddles great and will flow through flat sections. It’s narrower than any other single-fins I make in this size range which gives it the glider shape and feel at a much smaller size.
Swamis Log
The swamis log is a nose rider with a more drawn-in tail template. It has 50/50 rails throughout the board until the last 6” of the nose where the foil turns down. This down-turn foil allows the rail line to remain straight out the tip of the board, allowing for more speed-driven nose rides. The narrow tail allows you to control the board on a steeper face and at higher speeds making it a fun choice for a larger range of waves.
Luki Log
A nose rider with a thinner down-turned nose and moon tail. It has an even foil and is fairly sensitive and responsive for a log. It has a large blended concave in the nose to add lift and stability and a slightly scooped deck contour towards the tail to help keep it engaged when nose riding. The rails are 50/50 throughout aside from the last 3 inches of the nose where the foil turns down.