This is the 9'6" and it has a 8' little brother coming too. Tom was bemoaning how he didn't know how it happened but he has become a slow 73 year old. I'm pretty happy that when I heard it was taking a year to get a board that I rushed in and ordered two. I know he doesn't get much kudos over East having disappeared into Margie's back in 72 or 73, but he brought the first twin fin into Australia and shaped with some big names back in the day and was an early pioneer for many of the iconic breaks over here.

So these will will be Tom Hoye Da Claw classics in a few years.

Its a shame I can't show how remarkably complex the bottom curves are as it warps from single to flat to double through vee, except a lot of those are curves and not straight. The vee for example is sort of diamond shaped.

Oh and there are chines.

And Da Claw.