Always fun to look at !!
Just don't look at the price !

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2008-Michael-Peterson-Fangtail-Replica-Certificate-/220938594946?pt=AU_Sport_Surfing&hash=item3370f76a82#ht_500wt_1263

Jeez!! That tail would have some bite in it, ay Simo

beats me how a replica board can be worth that much , be surprised if anyone forks out for it. would prob be a crap board under anyone but MPs feet anyway

I told you not to look at the price Surferstu !
Yeah, Doggie, it would have bite. It's a variation on "stingers" actually.

why are there channels on the top

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weiry said...

why are there channels on the top

MP was probably just having a bender of a day in the shaping bay !!

They say MP could shape a board in 15 minutes. From Blank, to "ready for glassing" in 15 minutes! That's probably faster than current shaping machines! But MP was a Human Shaping Machine !

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Simondo said...

weiry said...

why are there channels on the top

MP was probably just having a bender of a day in the shaping bay !!

They say MP could shape a board in 15 minutes. From Blank, to "ready for glassing" in 15 minutes! That's probably faster than current shaping machines! But MP was a Human Shaping Machine !

They also say they were as rough as bags.

A bloke I used to work with was hired to 'shape' his shapes after shaping and before glassing so to speak....

The same bloke told me a great story about a board MP left with him in Bali to bring home for him. He said it was OK to ride but for some reason felt a little heavy and dead in the water. After years of thinking about it and the MP book he thinks he knows why.... It may or may not have been filled with something.

He was a mate of MP and said he never really knew much about him, mentioned in the book and everything.

Oh, used to also have a DHD Fang tail single fin modelled and modernised from the original. DH Shaped it for himself.

DH is an old Kirra boy as well.

I hated the board, a mate of mine rode it at 5 foot Kirra though and said it was the best board he ever rode out there.

MP back in the day on the GC points was something to see[}:)]

You hear stories around Sydney too, about his sessions out at places like Fairy Bower and Dee Why Point.

How about this one - an investment?

http://sydney.gumtree.com.au/c-Stuff-for-Sale-sports-surfboards-surfing-Vintage-Bill-Wallace-hollow-plywood-longboard-W0QQAdIdZ348411526

Bit rich for me. I do like the leg-rope attachment I wonder what fin LL would recommend.

And here is another one - but slightly more modern (and affordable)

sydney.gumtree.com.au/c-Stuff-for-Sale-sports-surfboards-surfing-Vintage-Surfboard-Longboard-W0QQAdIdZ348510104