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Board Story / Dane Reynolds, the Craftsman By Chris Latronic In our Board Story section, we tell stories of great surfboards from the people who made and rode them. In this issue, we follow a board carved by the modern day surfing virtuoso Dane Reynolds. Dane’s surfboard was ridden at the 2013 Reef Hawaiian Pro at Haleiwa, where the distinguished phenom battled a plethora of wave conditions.
nose and the tail. The board was basically designed to go fast and be maneuverable.
But thanks to this ambiguously produced Channel Islands inspired prototype, ‘Danger’ went on to a 5th place semifinal finish. How was this genius contraption conceived? Fortunately, Dane was in Hawaii and was very happy to share with us his Board Story.
This board I shaped in May (2013). I was surfing with Taylor Knox a lot at the time and he rides really different equipment than me and he’s equally crazy about it. He’s really focused on getting a lot of drive and momentum out of his board. Most of my boards are really skatey and more built for beach break stuff. I was surfing Trestles with him a lot and wasn’t too stoked on the way my boards were going, so I tried one of his boards and the drive was really refreshing. I think everybody’s craving a
The board: 6’0, 19 x 2 and 3/8 with a pretty flat deck. It’s got quite a bit of volume and width, pretty pluggy for a 6’0. It has a lot of width in the
What made you want to make this board and what was the process of how you started to do so?