Just general surfing stuff

[steve shearer]

https://stabmag.com/style/meet-the-man- ... sterpiece/

https://www.swellnet.com/news/swellnet- ... made-video

https://www.surfer.com/features/game-changing-rides/


its all well documented.

[Beanpole]

Very good.

[steve shearer]

anymore questions from the peanut gallery?

[Beanpole]

How's the surf at The Ox?

[Cranked]

anymore questions from the peanut gallery?

Just a comment from Rabbidge:

“To this day I still don’t think guys should be riding a lot of concave in fast or bigger waves,” he says.

“If you can push volume you’ll go so much better; you’ll go faster, you’ll do bigger manoeuvres, you’ll do everything. Boards I made for Sunny (Garcia) and Barton (Lynch) back in the ’91, ’92, ’93 were 2’5/8s thick. That’d be unheard of a couple of years ago. They were big boards but they liked to throw ‘em down the line and they could get em moving,” he says.

[Thud]

anymore questions from the peanut gallery?

Do you have any peanuts?

[Beanpole]

Wish I hadn't sold off my Rabbidge FatBoy years ago. Really good all round board.

[Thud]

I’ve got one under the house. Has these weird screw in fins.

[Beanpole]

How big?
Mine was 7'

[steve shearer]

anymore questions from the peanut gallery?

Just a comment from Rabbidge:

“To this day I still don’t think guys should be riding a lot of concave in fast or bigger waves,” he says.

“If you can push volume you’ll go so much better; you’ll go faster, you’ll do bigger manoeuvres, you’ll do everything. Boards I made for Sunny (Garcia) and Barton (Lynch) back in the ’91, ’92, ’93 were 2’5/8s thick. That’d be unheard of a couple of years ago. They were big boards but they liked to throw ‘em down the line and they could get em moving,” he says.

I like that quote.

[The Mighty Sunbird]

anymore questions from the peanut gallery?

Do you think that ultimately capitalism will fail?

[Thud]

How big?
Mine was 7'

Same. Blue.

[jimmy]

Rabbidge is a dickhead in my opinion after meeting him a few times. Pam is golden on the other hand.

[Beanpole]

Everyone I know down there seems to hate him but I've got a few boards off him. Always seemed okay to me. I don't buy boards to make friends with the shaper.

[Yuke Hunt]

I think it's more McKee trying to claim it.

Seriously ... its no wonder that everyone hates you.

[Beanpole]

From the McKee Homepage:
The footage at the right hander ‘Jeffrey’s Bay’ with Tom wearing a wetsuit colored with pink flanks shows Tom riding a four-finned ‘McKee Quattro’ 6’11″ x 18″ x 1-5/16″ swallow-tailed gun. The board is a 1992 version characterized by a fairly spread-out fin cluster with the rear fins being larger than the fronts and set back fairly close together on the tail. This gave the board amazing hold and drive but Tom needed a back foot on the tail to get it to pivot well of the top.
Tom combines his talent with this rare and strangely obscured surfboard technology of the era, to provide some epic footage

Not saying its true/ Just saying they make the claim.

[Thud]

Hey I don’t hate Beans. It’s not even close to a loathe. More like a itch under a plaster that I have to scratch with a long sharp tool.

[Thud]

From the McKee Homepage:
The footage at the right hander ‘Jeffrey’s Bay’ with Tom wearing a wetsuit colored with pink flanks shows Tom riding a four-finned ‘McKee Quattro’ 6’11″ x 18″ x 1-5/16″ swallow-tailed gun. The board is a 1992 version characterized by a fairly spread-out fin cluster with the rear fins being larger than the fronts and set back fairly close together on the tail. This gave the board amazing hold and drive but Tom needed a back foot on the tail to get it to pivot well of the top.
Tom combines his talent with this rare and strangely obscured surfboard technology of the era, to provide some epic footage

Not saying its true/ Just saying they make the claim.

And there’s a film clip on YouTube highlighting the 4 fins.

Maybe Rabbidge made the board but it was too meat and potatoes for Curren so he went for the quad.

I guess we’ll never know the real story unless Curren pipes up.