Blast Off

Since joining up with Grass is Greener, and after some new friend poking through my um...eclectic...quiver, a few boards were called into question.
In particular, a 5'6 flextail kneeboard that I built for myself two summers ago and rode pretty much exclusively through all of last winter; it was so fun I hadn't realized I had not stood up on a surfboard in almost 4 months.




The board was built in a day, the ultimate in "function over form" thinking; the template was handed down to me from an old local friend who got it from G.G. back in the day.
It went as follows:
Shape the bottom, glass it.
Take a grinder and a 50 grit disc to the deck to remove tons of volume...then remove all but 3/16" to 1/16" of the foam in the back 1/3 of the board to create a big 'ol flex panel...then finish glassing the deck:






This one has gotten a lot of interest from lookers-on in the recent past, and slowly faded into obscurity in my quiver...With a few fond memories of 15+ ft faces and full railed bottom turns left seared into my brain.
Heres a shot from her debut with the ocean, in itty-bitty beachbreak, setting up for one of the beautiful mini cover-ups from that day:





Change the way you see a wave peeling in front of you...a new perspective from down low may sound funny or look goofy; but try it and you'll see why Kyle and Theo both had the silliest grins on their faces today...
Thanks for bringing this one back to life, guys...