board#060: shortboard for Yassine

Yassine with board#060

Dimensions: 6'0 x 18 3/4 x 2 1/4
[completed in august 2014]

The story: When Loick came to pick up his Mère-Made custom board last year (board#33) he came down from Newport Beach with his surf buddy, Yassine. That is when Yassine told me he would like me to shape his next shortboard. Months passed and I thought Yassine had change his mind when, one day, I got a text saying he would like to meet to discuss his new board...

The shape: Yassine drove down from Orange County to chat about his custom board. With the help of Vincent (my technical support), we agreed on a shorter, thinner, narrower short board than the one Yassine was riding. And that was the whole point: to make Yassine a more technical board which will give him more room for progression. Because he really liked the outline of his current board I took its template and shank down the dimensions. To this I added my favorite deep single to double concave. We went from progressive shortboard to a performance shortboard!

The artwork: Yassine was very specific. He was aiming for a traditional Moroccan tile artwork (he is from Morocco). Of course, I had no time (and no desire) to draw a mosaic piece by piece!!! So I made like a trompe-l'oeil using a high resolution file of a Moroccan mosaic that Yassine picked on internet. Boardlams printed it out on rice paper. Then it was my job to make sure that a rectangle piece of rice paper would naturally wrap around the rails. My glasser did an amazing job following the very precise directions. He made it all happen. Exactly how Yassine imagined it. 

Testimonial: what better testimonial than to watch Yassine catching very crappy waves (choppy, small and windy) on his very first surf with his new board?