the question was asked. I was there when gene took a pencil and "free" drew our fin template on some flimsy template making board. we messed with the height a bit. gene had the front curve and the back curve in his head. to me it looks like the profile of a "pigskin" stuck in the sand (for those american "football" enthusiast). truth be told... gene has seen a fair share of bing surfboards in his time. all of the photos below are from the classic bing surfboard site (except for the top one). that site rules.
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"So here's the story on the fin. I walked into the Garden Grove factory one morning at about 4am to work on bb#1 and looked up and saw this POS board that Michlers dad found in a trash can back in the 60's. No logo, no idea who made it but I liked the fin shape and how the trailing edge was cut in so the fin could hang off the tail. Got a ladder to get up there and traced it on hardboard, cut it out, then whittled on it for a while. Turned out kind of what I scribbled out for GG a few days earlier. So I had a this fin template before I finished my coffee. If I knew it was going to lead to this much discussion I would have spent more time on it."
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