5'3" STPNK Fish surfgear

5'3" STPNK Fish surfgearGriffin Stepanek fine tuned his fishes surfing the beach breaks of San Francisco. Realizing that the traditional fish model can be limiting in less reliable punchy surf, similar to the waves in Newport, he started playing with its architecture while still remaining true to the original design. The boards tail rocker in combination with its bottom contours, rail shape, foil, fins, and fin placement achieves this forward movement. These features aid the

The board is made to be surfed in a powerful

His Grouper Fish is inspired by Rob Machado's Go Fish which is unique for its side cut outline and dual channel

6'6" x 21 1/2" x 2 3/4"

Hand shaped in Irvine

Flip this board over to reveal a super interesting bottom contour that exhibits somewhat of a bell curve shape with a dramatic double concave that is pushed out towards the rails

Even though this is a more upright/Mark Richards style twin without a trailer

Check out this excerpt from Paul Witzig's legendary 1967 film

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The bottom contour exhibits a gently rolled hull entry that tapers into a rolled vee that reaches its apex just above the fin box before softening out towards the tail

This spunky mid-length has extremely thin foiled rails

this model is one of Liddle's more shreddy hulls to capture the essence of MP's surfing in this time period

more information on how that works here