Within weeks, Dick Brewer shaped Gerry Lopez an 8'6'' mini-gun, inspired by the short V-Bottoms Nat Young and Bob McTavish rode on Oahu and Maui that winter...and all hell broke loose, leaving serious longboard development to wither.
What's been lost was how sophisticated Cabell's board, and surfing, was in the fall/winter of 1967. That board wasn't a big wave gun built for survival, or a small wave noserider for adolescent hot dogging and posing. It was a ''pure surfboard,'' designed to ride the heart of the wave...much in the spirit of the early shortboards.
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