Hello and welcome back to the show.

Today's episode is with blackboards, surfboards, owner, shaper, laminator, sander, accountant, shop sweeper, salesman, and one-man marketing team Tim Crozier.

He's also the deputy at the icons of foam shaping comp at the boardroom show,

so he's had unrivaled access to the world's most famous board builders, the likes of

Dick Brewer, Rennie Ader, Simon Anderson, Ben Ipa, Wayne Lynch, Jerry Lopez, and those are

just some of the honorees. In addition to that, there's six

competitors that he works with every year at the boardroom show, formerly Sakeb Kraft. So it'd be safe

to say that Tim's actually worked with more iconic board builders than probably anybody on the planet.

His longest clients and team writers are in fact his two sons,

both of whom have been dialing in through research and development, a new shortboard model.

It's a rounded pin twin called the Hawkeye Hybrid. They are getting shacked on it in bigger surf,

doing airs on it, flaring the fins, holding the line with big rail

carves. And Tim had heard me talking about riding other twin fins, longer twins, mid-lengths,

for the past couple of years. And so he reached out to suggest going shorter with a hawkeye.

So he built one to my specs, and that is what I've been writing exclusively

for over a past month. It's a really interesting design. He and I will get deep into it. But the

short explanation is it's less than six feet. There's a lot of volume forward and then very little

volume with a lot of contours on the back half. So real simple and full in the front and then real

slight and a little bit more sophisticated and complex in the back, but a real modern combination

of things. And what that allows is a lot of stability and paddle power, but ripability, basically,

in the back. And so we're going to use this Hawkeye hybrid as a giveaway

for you, the listeners, this month. Actually, on September 1st, we're going to give it away.

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