Trevor Gordon's Tail Fin Trials

Author

Ian Durkin

Radical asymmetrical lines coming to a pointed tail on the toe side

Published: 09-05-2015

Updated: 10-03-2018

About the author

Based on a houseboat in Sausalito and raised on the east coast, Ian is a director and photographer who previously headed up the Staff Picks at Vimeo and later the film program at Rivian.

Trevor Gordon worked with shaper Ryan Lovelace to create four weird iterations of a finless surfboard. With nothing but curiosity and intuition guiding them, the boards were made with radical asymmetrical lines coming to a pointed tail on the toe side. The following is a showcase of Trevor's trials with each board.

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