fish for both stand-up and KB

Eric Carson · Post by **Eric Carson** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:47 pm

Sweet quiver and garden!!

Sprocky · Post by **Sprocky** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:34 am

I was just checking the El Porto cam on Surfline and saw an ad for the new Channel Islands model called the Biscuit that kneemor mentioned.
http://cisurfboards.com/sb_biscuit.asp
Dimensions and outline are surprisingly close to the kneeboards I stand up surf. Move the fins up and it looks like it'd actually make a decent kneeboard.
I wonder where we're headed. Channel Islands belly boards and handguns?

JackG · Post by **JackG** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 12:50 pm

Sprocky wrote:I was just checking the El Porto cam on Surfline and saw an ad for the new Channel Islands model called the Biscuit that kneemor mentioned.
http://cisurfboards.com/sb_biscuit.asp
Dimensions and outline are surprisingly close to the kneeboards I stand up surf. Move the fins up and it looks like it'd actually make a decent kneeboard.
I wonder where we're headed. Channel Islands belly boards and handguns? :wink:

I've looked at the Biscuit in person and seen a few in the lineup. They have surprisingly little rocker -- probably accounts for the speed in small stuff.

Always thought the Greenough designed Wilderness Stubby would be a good dual duty board. Lots of width and relatively short for kneeriding, plenty of volume where needed for standing up. Sadly Wilderness fell victim to the gentrification of the Santa Barbara "Funk Zone".

-- Jack

Sprocky · Post by **Sprocky** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:14 pm

Wilderness isn't wedged between the Milpas onramp and the 101 anymore?
Took me forever to find it the first time. I was looking for a surf shop and it looked like someone's house with a bunch of crap in the yard.
Gone for good gone, or just relocated gone?

Dr. Bronner · Post by **Dr. Bronner** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:55 pm

alittle trivia.. Tom Curren grew up in that little tan house right next door ( almost ON the freeway).

surfhorn · Post by **surfhorn** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:06 am

And Tom was the person who kicked off the current fish frenzy about 10 +/- years ago when he started standup riding a 5'6' Freeline fish kneeboard.

Dr. Bronner · Post by **Dr. Bronner** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 5:53 am

is it still a fish craze-trend after 13 yrs????

surfhorn · Post by **surfhorn** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:26 am

You're right, Joe; its not a trend. A fish is something everyone should have in their bag of tricks. I stand corrected.

Sprocky · Post by **Sprocky** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 6:43 am

Good point Joe.

I'd say the fish is here to stay. Or would that be back to stay? Not sure if they ever really died off in the kneeboard community, since it wasn't much of a community back then. I sold my spoon decked fish to get my first Wilderness, a spoon decked squash tail tri fin, and rode tri fins until I got on a Freeline quad, and rode those until I saw an Aussie style rounded pin tri. Always up for trying something new. But I didn't get back on a true Lis style fish until 3 years ago.

monkey boy · Post by **monkey boy** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:08 am

What's the freeline "shquad" - anyone heard of this??

Also and dare I say it ..................... any good epoxy quads out there - anyone got any feedback e.g. hynson boardworks black knight quad?

Cheers
MB

P.S. Post more board pics !!!!

Mark Ramirez · Post by **Mark Ramirez** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:33 am

Hey Monkey boy, I heard that the Hynson black knight quad is an excellent board. I know a foot surfer who raves about it.

surfhorn · Post by **surfhorn** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 9:48 am

re: Freeline shquad. Its just the name John put on his new 6'2'" rp quad design that in the shop at this moment. The rear fins are placed closer to the center of the board, giving the board better drive. (as compared to the clusterd 4 fins of a twinzer).

John has a tendancy to come up with names for custom boards he makes (he writes the name on the board with ink by his signature).
When I was getting ready to move to Santa Monica in '79, I had him cut me a 8'2" double wing (wings at 21" and 14") pin tail. I then took two FU boxes (this was before they made the longer boxes) cut off one end on each and made a long box for my twangy 12" flex fin.

John dubbed the board the "Topanga Tangler". Turned out to be a killer design in the days just before the thruster came upon the scene.

Sprocky · Post by **Sprocky** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 10:22 am

To continue on with naming stories, John made the first of the kneelo/standup crossover boards I custom ordered. It was a narrower longer twinzer based on the boards SuperEq had been riding at the time. I believe John dubbed mine the "Flying Fish". I rode it into the ground, and was still able to sell the browned, water logged remnants as a used standup in HB years later.