5'10" Flex Tail Fish in marine ply, balsa and
western red cedar –
double concave
7' Alaia in red cedar
6'6" Bonzer in balsa and western red cedar
– Deep single concave to double concave
5'8" Displaced Bonzer Stubby in western red cedar
– tri plane hull to double concave
5'10" Fish in western red cedar
– single concave running between fins
5'7" Fish in western red cedar
– single to double concave
6' Bat Tail Twinszer in western red cedar
– single to double concave
All designs and images © Nathaniel Grey 2007
I’ve always been into funky looking surfboards. My quiver is a revolving collection of single fins, twin fins, eggs, bonzers, fish and disks.
I’d been thinking about shaping a board for myself but never liked the idea of using foam. That’s when I decided to have a go at building a hollow wooden surfboard… it flew… and now my quiver has doubled and half of it is wood.
My boards have received a bit of attention in the car park and in the water at Bondi, and requests started coming in. So now I’m doing custom boards, you can see one on display at the Six Ounce Board Store in Bondi.
The boards are super strong and will last you years, not a season or two, and if down the track your board is looking well-loved, you can sand it back and apply a new coat of 2pac and it’ll look new again (you can’t say the same for a foam board).
They’re a bit heavier than your average surfboard, but when
they’re
in
the water they feel lively and very fast in trim.
They also absorb the
bumps on the choppy days.
More about hollow wooden surfboards...
Read
article on frothers.com.au
