Los Angeles Log

Here's a note from Eric up in L.A. Thanks for the input Eric!

Here are a couple pics of my Murphy 10'5". This was not a board
I ordered but was acquired through a trade. I couldn't be more
stoked to have this board. I like big, heavy boards and this one
certainly fits the bill. It has a 1" center stringer (almost certainly
red cedar) with two outboard 1/4" stringers and parallel pinlines.

The glassing feels like double 8oz top and a single 8oz bottom
and it has an expertly draped fin patch. The blank has to have
been a classic weight because, as they'd say in Hawaii, "dis
suckah is heavy." Nice shallow and relatively small concave
in the nose, belly through the mid and some V in the tail, so it
turns well. And it noseriders beautifully, especially in bigger
surf. I got it because I wanted a pintail specifically for larger
waves and because the weight cuts through the wind when its
howling offshore. The weight also provides a stable platform
for tipriding.

Dims are 18 1/2" x 23 1/2" x 15 3/4" x 3 1/2"+ thick. I don't
own calipers, so it's a guesstimate comparing other boards I
have, a couple of which are 4" thick.

Thanks for you blog and I'm really stoked on my Murph.

Eric Burns
Los Angeles


Turns out this board was custom shaped for Terry Rogers, reporter and writer for the San Diego Union-Tribune. He used to write outdoors and surfing columns for our local rag.