Back in early 1968, Bob McTavish came to the U.S. with Greenough. This was after their stint in Hawaii with the stringerless deep V's...
Bob built a board around 8 feet long at the Morey Pope Factory (inspired by the early Hawaiian mini-guns) and rode it at Rincon during the legendary 2 month run of non-stop waves at Rincon that year...sans wetsuit, and of course no leash!
You can see the insanely flat rocker on the board, and the lack of deep hull.
Bob claimed it was the best board he ever had (within the context of the times), and he's now retooled the design. While the McTavish Rincon is by no means what "we" would consider a hull, it does embrace a lot of the spirit of hull surfing...single fin, parallel outline, low rocker, and fast down-the-line speed.
Lots more info and pics
here and
here at Liquid Salt...
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Historical side note..
While waiting for his new 8 footer to be glassed at the MP factory back in early 1968, Bob dropped a Waveset fin box into George's 7'8'' balsa "Baby Surfboard," screwed in a plastic Stage 3 fin, and rode it in some pretty fair waves...
