Matt Parker is something of a mad scientist. He makes some of the most amazing surfboards you can get, and because of that, a surfboard from Album is a highly sought after prize. He’s a deep well of knowledge when it comes to what makes a surfboard act a certain way under a certain surfer’s feet, and in this quick video, he breaks down a little fish called the Veebee.
“How can I make a daily driver kind of fish for Victor [Bernardo] that focuses on maintaining flow and building and keeping speed and allowing him to surf without having to work for everything?” he asks at the beginning of the video. “A board that does everything you want a fish to do, but doesn’t have any limitations as far as how much he has to hold back in a turn.”
It’s an interesting surfboard, full of little tweaks that are very… Parker. The bottom has a spiralling vee with a double-barrel concave in it. That, according to Parker, creates a balance between speed generation and control — especially when the surfer is going fast. The deck has plenty of foam in it, but the rails are thinned out and refined to give it a more performance-oriented feel. That means that, despite the classic fish outline, the Veebee should perform like a modern shape.
Parker and Bernardo have been working on the Veebee for a year now, but they decided that it needed to come in two different versions. There’s a blunt nosed option that has a fuller outline and a wider tail for the smaller, weaker days, and there’s a version with a sharper nose built to fall somewhere in between that flowy feeling you get on a fish and the performance of something closer to a standard thruster.
