Something that justifies the term work for a shaper/designer, maybe Australia’s best, certainly the most innovative. There hasn’t been anything as radical in form and concept as the “Modern Planing Hull” since the shortboard revolution. This one has the parallel outline with a pulled in tail and a quad setup. It looks fast with a ton of control built into the engine room. And I know it works because I just spent an hour watching Daniel put it all over the six-foot walls roping down the Point. His brain was strong and he knew what he wanted but the hands couldn’t translate what was in his head. Stretched out across a rock beside a cave-like clump of pandanus palms the father of Daniel Thomson, Mark, is baking like a lizard in the winter sun, a look of deep contentment etched across his face. Hit the big-time with Firewire and his collaborations with Slater. And Mark’s enjoying every second of his son’s success.ĭan’s position at the vanguard of surfer-shapers and shaper-designers, somehow who is as comfortable flaring fins along the coping as they are experimenting with the possibilities of shape and the limits of space age materials, isn’t an accident. He’s not some dude who, with a flare for marketing and a partner who could build a website, learnt the intricacies of AKU shaper before he could swing a planer. No, you could say he’s been groomed for this for a long time, maybe since birth. The upbringing was, how to put it, unorthodox. Mark is an unconventional man and the family compound, a sprawling hippy-type affair nestled in rainforest at the base of Broken Head was about as far from the typical nine-to-five urban upbringing as you could get. The Byron-Ballina area was then, and still is, at the forefront of design experimentation. Mark says he and Dan “cycled through every design you could think of: singles, twins, concaves, no-nose thrusters. It was nothing to ride something at Broken Head and snap it in the tube, go home, shape another one and come back to the Point the next day to test it. “The area was just fizzing with everything,” says Mark. “From Al Byrne’s channels to McCoy’s Lazer Zaps to twinnies – we just grew up through that whole change and we were just doing everything we could. There was nothing out of bounds and there were no rules. set by Joey Cabell on Jon Lana’i.Daniel was wandering around watching me shape surfboards since he was in nappies,” says Mark while we stretch out on rocks post surf at the Point. Hawaii’s record for the largest Yellowfin Tuna is 325 lbs. Shibi are always found in schools, while ahi are only sometimes found in schools. Yellowfin Tuna are easily identified by their bright yellow finlets along the spines their flesh ranges from pink to deep red, depending the size of the fish. The larger ahi will more likely to have a higher fat content compared to smaller shibi but both are excellent for eating raw, seared or broiled. (If you’ve ever tried local Hawaii poke, you’ll know what we mean!) Yellowfin Tuna aka Ahi, Shibi ( Thunnus albacares)Īhi (Yellowfin Tuna) are readily available, great to eat, and fun challenge to reel-in, making them one of the most popular fish to catch in Hawaiian waters. They grow to full size in 5 to 6 years and are fast in the water. Yellowfin tuna are usually divided into two groups: Ahi are typically the larger yellowfin and over 100 lbs., while the smaller yellowfin under 100 lbs.
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