YELLOW 9’6
In the Hawaiian winter of 1987 I got a threeboard quiver from Pat Rawson. 7’6”, 8’4” and 9’6”, all pintails, all glassed by Jack Reeves and sanded by Charlie Walker in a couple of little sheds out behind Sunset Beach.
The two smaller boards were pretty much conventional, but the 9’6” was a purpose made Waimea gun, the first I’d ever owned. Twenty inches wide, yellow resin tinted, with a half-inch cedar stringer, it pulled back from the wide point like a road vanishing over some horizon.
