Pintail Shortboard - 6'2" - Recycler Foam - Glass on Tri Fin

This board is Gary’s first Recycler. Back when Clark foam blanks were coming in from Japan in block form, he had been saving leftover foam strips with rocker already built into them. Every day he looked at those pieces and thought he was not going to let that material go to waste—he was going to turn it into a real board. This was the first one he made from that idea.

It features balsa wood fins and a large balsa stringer, built from what was essentially a five-piece blank. Gary surfed this board hard. He took it to Jeffreys Bay on a big day and broke it at Impossibles on the last section. With no resin available at J-Bay, he went to a hardware store that night, bought epoxy glue and fiberglass, patched it back together, and surfed it again the next day. Then he broke it again in another section at Impossibles. He brought the two pieces home, put it back together, and later rode it at Todos on a smaller day, where it broke once more. He repaired it again, and here it is: Recycler Number One, the very first of its kind.

Design: Pintail Shortboard
Size: 6'2"
Construction Material: Recycler
Fin Configuration: Glass-On Tri Fin
Surfboard: 26-2-11