Accomplishing this takes more than mere skill with a Skil 100 planer - it requires sufficient imagination to envision a surfboard unlike any that have come before it, meant to be ridden in an entirely new manner. The exact opposite is the case with surfing’s most controversial “monster” surfboard design, when considering the difficulties presented in scaling up the performance qualities of a much smaller board to one that is capable of being paddled while standing up. Victor Frankenstein, endeavoring to reanimate lifeless tissue, scaled his infamous monster up to what he called “… its gigantic stature,” believing it would be much easier to construct a human body if the assembled body parts were made bigger.
In Mary Shelley’s 1821 novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, protagonist Dr. Today, Sam looks at the stand-up surfboard. He won an Emmy for his work on the 30 for 30 documentary, Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau. Sam has been writing about surfing for more than three decades and is the former Editor-in-Chief of SURFER magazine.
Editor’s Note: Welcome to “By Design” with Sam George that examines the genius, and sometimes the mystery, of surfing’s storied design history.
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