2008 Space Odyssey (Woodstock)

Say hello to the newest addition to the Grey Ghost fam. I call him Woodstock and he is 4'6". My brother bought the foam to make this board, for $2 at the rockaway swap meat. In its previous life it was a boring old 7'10 China "Funboard" with a thruster setup. It was snapped about 2' down from the nose so I didn't have much to work with. I worked out a template on some graph paper a while back and I figure this was an opportune time to give it a shot. Oddly enough I figured a way to cut the china thruster egg funboard down so that I had a perfect blank for this little guy. With minimal adjustment the rocker was exactly where I wanted it and all I had to do was put rail bands on it and turn them. I did this all by hand. No power tools. I'm going to foil my own fins for it and even glass it myself for old times sake. Stay tuned for the progress. Peace

Quad Fish for Pat B

The idea came up when my bredren Pat Butera called me and asked me if it was possible to recycle an old beat up china pop out board. After a look at the board I figured, Why not? Besides I think its a bit ironic to take a pop out and cut it down, shape it by hand and make a once frowned upon board legit. I quickly took him up on the offer and we began discussing possible sizes and templates. When you recycle old board like this you don't have much leeway to adjust the rocker and foil because you start out with very little foam. However the board had a decent amount of nose rocker so I figure if I move the template upward, the tail of the template would sit somewhere around the mid point of the china board leaving me enough meat to create my own rocker in the tail. The china board left me enough room to create a 5'11 double winged quad fish. The shape came out great and since I was soo stoked on the finished product I decided to add some extra touches to it. The board went from rags to riches in a total of 5 hours (including the artwork)

This is Pat, shredding at an early age.....Drop knee style at age 12