5’10” Oddball
Backyard creation from earlier this year, always wondered how it went. Reminds me of a Mola Mola Sunfish,
Backyard creation from earlier this year, always wondered how it went. Reminds me of a Mola Mola Sunfish,
Anonymous
September 9, 2008he should have made a custom rotating fin box so he could flip it around the other way to compare.
Anonymous
September 9, 2008That is one big-ass fish!
Anonymous
September 9, 2008very poor foiled fin
and so so design
but perfect glass work
warm jet
September 9, 2008Sunfish are a freak of nature.
Fisherman hate ’em cuz they mimick swordfish very well.
they are so non functional as a swimmer yet nobody bothers them exept the boats that run over ’em by mistake.
Who's Your Daddy
September 9, 2008Is it me or does that fin look like it should be rotated 180 degrees.
Anonymous
September 10, 2008back in 82, my shaper jaime Hollis shaped me a 5’9 2+1 rounded pin with a baby trailer boxed fin. One day at river jetties, I reversed the trailer fin, so it looked a lot like the fin in that yellow board. The board rode insane with the trailer fin on backwards, so, don’t knock it till you try it.
Anonymous
September 10, 2008Poor mola molas. They’re super defenseless. They’re meat is somewhat toxic, except the fins. Sea lions chomp off juveniles’ fins and leave them flapping away until they wash ashore where the seagulls peck their eyes out and leave the rest to rot 🙁
Trippy fin!
Anonymous
September 10, 2008Such critics….you never know it may work great??? Ya never know until ya try….could be worth it???? I’d like to see some follow up pics of the board in action with some feedback from the owner as to how it rides and handles. Just a thought………
Anonymous
September 10, 2008It’s great that Moonbase lets people walk and with their crazy ideas and give them beautiful glassjobs on their wild creations.
Anonymous
September 10, 2008the surfing world needs more attempts like this—-we have gotten a bit full of ourselfs in regards surfboard designs—remember the free-wheeling days of the eary shortboard revolution?–no? o wait, most of you are too young—walrus
Anonymous
September 10, 2008From the owner:
Thanks to Moonlight for doing such a great job on the glasswork!
Yes, the fin is poorly foiled! Did it at work on a belt sander and only had 1hr – oh well. Its not my design either, you can buy a similar fin, the ‘spitfire’, on-line, a really great fin.
No, it probably won’t work flipped 180 degrees. If you could see the foil – its very blunt on the leading edge and really tapers toward the trailing edge.
The board worked great in mushy waves – very fast and loose. However, the tail was too wide for the fin in bigger and hollower waves. The fin would pop out or the board would want to stay flat instead of going onto the rail. Rode it for a few months and then had it switched to a pair of keel fins I made. Much better in bigger surf!
Nuno
September 11, 2008Funny You should Say That, When I saw the pics I thought that it would be a little difficult to lay-it down on the rail too due to the fin shape… looks like a nice project…
Blaine
September 13, 2008I got to surf that board before it was a keel, fast off the drop in, very loose on snaps and cutbacks, but like Sean says tail is too wide. Cant wait to surf it as a quad cause the board design is awsome.
Anonymous
May 12, 2010the “spitfire”… looks like the tail of a WWII fighter plane to me. Seems pretty obvious to try to see if a proven design in one “arena” could be adapted to work in a different medium. Items/things from the past can lead us to the future… “and if it don’t work-at least we say we tried” the Jam