Stringerless Stubbie for Sale

This stubbie was my personal board and it's lightly used with no dings. Glassed with Volan, it has moderate flex and works best in hollower beach break surf. (I designed it with Ocean Beach in mind.)

5'11" x 20.5" x 2-3/8"
clear, volan glass
marine-ply side bites by Daniel Partch
Moonlight Glassing

$525.00

Interested parties can contact me by email at mandalacustomshapes@gmail.com.

Stringerless Volan Stubbo Concavo

Here's one of my favorite board designs with marine-ply side fins by Daniel Partch...





5'9" stringerless stubbo concavo
20.5" x 2-3/8"
volan cloth
wet-sanded gloss
marine-ply side fins
volan L-flex by True Ames
Moonlight Glassing

Stringerless CQC for Joe Curren

Joe picked up his little 5'7" recently and it's apparently making its way to points south of Spain later this month...lucky. Send us a postcard Joe!

Boneless Bamboo Quad

...for Ryan the RVCA rep. Hand-delivered through driving rain!

6'1" x 20.25" x 2.5" stringerless round pin quad
masking-tape opaque tint + polish
bamboo AK4 fins
6oz+6oz deck/6oz + 6oz bottom







p.s. the left at C-street was fun yesterday...

Stringerless Stubbie

Dan Partch just sent over some hand-foiled marine-ply side bites for my newest stringerless project, a 5'9" stubbie 2+1. I've been really stoked lately on sub-6' stubs with spiral vee for navigating around various nugs here in Ocean Beach. Chuck Ames is in the process of making some special 7" volan L-flex fins for Mandala, which should be ready around the time this board's ready to surf...

5'9" stubbo concavo
20.5" x 2.5"
marine-ply side bites
7" volan L-flex






Special thanks to heavy D.Partch for making such beautiful fins. He's the nicest ex-drill sergeant you'll ever meet...

Stringerless Quad Fish for Joe Curren

I met Joe in Brooklyn last July at an art opening and premier of Patrick Trefz' film "Thread"at the Mollusk NYC shop and we got to talking about quad fishes and the lack thereof in his quiver. He wanted a 5'6" with marine-ply CQCs, which would suit him better since he's accustomed to surfing a twin keel (see Thread and One California Day.)

The stringerless is a bit faster than my quad fish with a tapered stringer as they're shaped with a bit less tail rocker. Once you go into a big turn, the board flexes and twists, adding tail rocker and storing energy which is released coming out of turns. As you go down the line you can feel the board finding its own path of least resistance, with the fins and board flexing together. I glass them with 6+6 deck/6+6 bottom, as the extra weight is negligible relative to that feeling of flight.

More photos to come...

Stringerless Round Pin Quad

One of my friends at RVCA wanted a unique board for surfing the Central Coast, so I made him a little boneless four finner...

6'1" round pin quad
20.25" x 2.5"