This design was first conceived in 1997. It was a 12 footer designed by drawing the planshape on a dusty wooden floor in a workshop which we were renting in Gisborne NZ. The tail was what we termed an 'extreme pintail' as it was drawn right from the wide point.
The original board was built in balsa.
The resulting board was incredible: It completely blew all the other designs out of the water, and Roy surfed it in all conditions including big days when only a handful of shortboarders and mat riders would venture out in front of a packed carpark:
So now we come to 2007 and the future primitive pipeline challenge.This started with a gauntlet thrown by Bill Barnfield at Swaylocks.
