Caught inside!

[southwesterly]

On a gun (or even a regular board) you can pop to your feet for a moment before it sinks and do what we used to call an "Island Dive." It gives you 5 or 6 feet of penetration under the water with almost no effort, then 2 more strokes and your down 10 or 12ft. Without having to expend all that energy pushing a thick, floaty wetsuit down under the water. In the 90's at Mav's I got caught inside in a beast I'll never forget. Too big for us prone paddlers anyway. Tow-in guys were the new thing, and they were out with maybe 5 of us paddle-in holdouts. This thing caught all of us (prone) paddlers. I was on a Doug Haut 10' 4" x 22" wide x 3 3/8" thick beautiful pintail with vee in the nose. The nicest board I ever had. We were experimenting with leashes, I was never so glad to have a 20 ft. leash. I swam to the bottom of that leash, and still got caught by the boom and rag-dolled. I don't miss that part.

Love stories like that. Thanks Feral.

I've surfed Haut's boards all my prone surfing life. He's a master craftsman.

[outcast]

 Feral...very cool, thanks
 Most curious how you "image searched", .....like facial recognition stuff ?, because yeah that's Stant @ Peahi....the mist in the curl made me thinking photoshop

  And yes, I still got a Haut hanging out ....love it

[Sup-position]

With Google you right click on a photo and do Search Google for this Image..

Up will pop some choices...

[FeralInBaja]

Yeah, I can be a little melodramatic at times, but when I had that board made Jim Broach died a year or 2 before and Mark Foo had just died, I was deciding between Jeff Clark, Bob Pearson, something from Bob Wise, all of whom I have great respect for; or Doug Haut. I decided that if I might die on that board, I wanted it to be a Doug Haut. No better shaper or fisherman. Got hurt really bad, but I didn't die...
Feral
P.S. that's why Double-Overhead+ is my max for now.

[SlatchJim]

I'm just a weekend and vacation surfer. The only business I'd have being in surf that big is committing suicide. 

Cool video by the way.

[Weasels wake]

Caught inside, or caught on top, or caught just looking while relaxing on your back, do you think his eyes are open?