So after shaping surfboards for nearly a half-century and having shaped roughly 1800 stand up boards, Standup Journal asked me to share my “reflections as a surfboard shaper” with you.    This article appears in the volume 17, number 4 issue of 2009 Standup Journal.  It was expertly edited to fit with in the space allotted for the Journal.  This is the complete unedited version with a little more detail and caustic remarks from a crusty old shaper like me.  Even though this was written for an SUP magazine, the ideas represented apply to surfboard shapes as well.

On a typical family outing in the desert, I witnessed the traumatic death and ressurection of a close friend on the storm ravaged waters of Lake Havasu

I guess most married guys have their own vasectomy story, but I've never heard one as bad as mine.  If you haven't had one, then don't read this. 

I had no idea what I was getting into or what a mess it could turn out to be. I'm just lucky I lived through that part of my life