Okay, while all you macho blokes have been in the “swell” thread and over at the SUP forum comparing penis sizes, I’ve been doing a bit of work.

I’ve got a lot of ground to cover to tie the 3 bits of the subject together so I hope you can stick it out (no, I don’t mean your penises so you can put them away now).

So for the last 4 arvos I’ve been surfing this break at DY on the 10’ Miske model surftech, I should have been on the 9’6” Tollhurst but the 10’ is just so much easier to paddle. Problem is, some were coming through at 6 to 8ft and I was needing to do a couple of very late takeoffs with some big drops each day.


I’m proud to say that I made every one of them for 4 days straight and only buggered up the last one this arvo, but it was only about 3ft.

This is big news for someone like me because they scare me sh!tless coz I’m so old, fat and slow.

I recon being able to make them may have something to do with the fact that all week I’ve been using a single fin because someone here told me they paddle better, It’s a 9.25” fluid foil.

This is a pic of it in the Miske alongside the tollhurst with its standard 3 fin set up.



I really would like to use the tollhurst more often so I’ve decided to give it a go as a single fin to see if I can paddle it a bit better.

Besides, I wanted to try a noserider fin on the Miske, so I popped into Bennett’s and forked out 55 clams for a 9.5” noserider fin.


Here’s the 3 fins together.



And this is what they look like now.



I know anyone who’s been on this model of tollhurst would be horrified at me removing the standard set up, but if it encourages me to use the board more frequently because it’s easier to catch waves, then I don’t really care.

So where does the UFO bit come into the story?

Well while I was in Bennett’s I noticed they had wall-to-wall McTavish boards, they must have outnumbered the other sleds 3 to 1. I said to the guy can I take a picture of them because I know this guy who’s just crazy about them and has just about every model in his quiver, we suspect he carries a picture of Bob in his wallet (gosh, I wonder who I’m talking about????).



The guy in the shop had a chuckle, as if to imply he knew a few tragics like that.

Then he said, “I bet I know one that he doesn’t have, it’s only been out for about 4 weeks and it’s called the UFO”.

I said I would not be surprised if he had one on order already but I took a picture of it just in case.