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It's all about the beach Functional and decorative beach stuff... surfboards • surf art • shells • driftwood things • chenille shorts • retro sunnies • thongs • towels • umbrellas • hammocks • gifts • GoPro cameras... And so much more Stocking quality Australian-made surfboards by Tom Wegener, Bushrat, High Tide, Black Apache & SAS, as well as Californian legend Dewey Weber where's... 88 | MAR/APR <strong>2013</strong> SMORGASBOARDER 6 Lorraine Ave, Marcoola Beach QLD (07) 5448 8560 Visiting the NFOS? We're just 20min South of Noosa f
Photo: Dave Swan ABOVE: Peter at home with two friends. Photo: Dave Swan BELOW: Peter’s asymmetrical design plans and final product. Photo: Peter Downes DREAMING UP BOARD DESIGNS For twenty years Peter was busy with the business and raising kids and at that stage only had one longboard to speak of. When life settled down a little he decided to get more into surfing once again. “Through the years I have worked out I have probably bought and sold sixty odd boards and for all that money and effort I had only one board in the garage. So I thought I will keep buying one or two boards a year, but I will keep them. I started to think about what they were going to be, and how they would fit into my quiver. “I have always been fond of twin fins and single fins. My love for single fins stems from the surfing they produce. If you look back to Morning of the Earth and that super smooth downthe-line motion they produce, their speed and ability to do big cutbacks... They are just perfect. I have always enjoyed watching the likes of the late Michael Peterson surf, and the same goes for Joel Tudor today.” Along with single fins and twinnies, Peter also has a penchant for designing his own asymmetricals. “Way back I made this little 6’6” square tail single fin. It was fantastic on the forehand side. You could do a real big bottom turn and go straight down the line, but it tended to spin out a bit on the backhand side because the fin was too small. So next I made a 6’9” round tail with a bigger fin, and it was really good on the backhand, but not as good on the forehand. “I went back to the 6’6” and added angled side fins. That made it really good on the backhand, but it lost its magic on the forehand. When you stepped on the gas, instead of just wanting to go down the line, it now wanted to go up the wave face. So then I thought I would make a board that puts it all into one board. It was 6’6” round tail on the backhand side, and a square tail on the forehand. I put a small fin on the backhand side in the normal position and on the forehand side another little fin that was pretty much level with the main fin and another parallel to the stringer. It got rid of the tendency to go up the wave. “Anyhow, I rode that board for a couple of years and then got rid of it. Only a couple of years ago I experimented with LATEST: LIVING Photo: Peter Downes MAR/APR <strong>2013</strong> | SMORGASBOARDER 89
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