Hattenhauer Family Blog

Al was building a first generation hollow wood surfboard circa 1938 surfer — He became quit good shapping new designs with modern materials, to the point that intenationally recognized designs like Kennedy, Con, and O’hana would exchange ideas and board features with Al.  Here {left} at Gladstone’s Al flys with his fat tailed Penguin; years later he proudly displays a O’Hana that was recieved from a shaper friend in trade for one of his LazerMan tripple fin boards about 1972.  He taught each of my brothers and my sister to ride, also surfed to within years of his death this last year.  He loved the experience as much as any part of his life -he was always the ‘Red tailed Ape’ on the waves.