10’ Pat Curren Handshaped Three Stringer Gun 2017

I’m incredibly honored to have this Pat Curren Gun available on The Surfboard Rack. Not only a global legend, but the San Diego legacy the Curren family has goes deep into many people here including myself. Pat and my dad were acquaintances from La Jolla Cove in the 1950’s. I met his  son Joe and  we’ve been friends since  in the mid 1990s and a few years back  his wonderful daughter Malie and I became buds. Mix in his oldest son Tom was everyone’s hero, well, you can see my utter respect and why this is an honor for me.

Pat Curren Legacy:

Pat Curren and small group of La Jolla madmen were among the first to paddle out and surf Waimea Bay on Oahus North Shore. His family roots in Mission Beach and his exploits at the La Jolla Reefs were ahead of their time, as was his shaping skills. He and Pal Al Nelson were making some boards at AJ Surf Shop in La Jolla and even some under the South Coast label. One even recently popped up in San Diego sans signature but the Curren DNA was undeniable. 

The boards he made for big surf, made from Balsa and redwood are second to none and considered some of the finest surfboards to ever be made. After his time in the islands, Curren moved to Newport Beach, started a family and was making boards under his own label for a bit. Tom was soon born and the move north continued as the settled into the Santa Barbara area where he shaped a few boards at Rennie Yaters shop and surfed a legendary monster day at Hammonds Reef. Pat became an incredible carpenter and was making Toms boards before Al Merrick and Channel Islands made history. 

Soon life had its own plans and Pat moved to Costa Rica. There’s a great sequence in “Amazing Surf Stories” where Tom and Pat reunited at Pavones. Pat mostly surfed and fished and would build things for people as they needed to make his way.

By the 1990s, Pat was living in Baja and the demand for classic boards and replicas grew and Pat started shaping his gorgeous big wave boards once again. While most were balsa and redwood guns, Pat did make a handful of foam guns as well. This is what you see here. 

About The Board:

From the Seller, “Made at Gary Lindens. 3 were shaped but none of the 3 were made for anybody in particular. This 10’ Pat Curren gun has Redwood/Blasa T-band in center and Redwood/Balsa outer stringers. It has a Redwood fin made by Pat and was haped in 2016/17. It was 1 of 3 of the last boards he shaped start to finish. One of those boards hangs on his brother, Terry Curren’s wall.”

10’ x 22” x 3.5”

Glassing believed to be done by Matt Parker and Lighthouse Glassing.