Erle Pedersen Surfboard Designs

Through the 60's Erle grew up in Cairns in North Queensland Australia at a beach known as Kewerra.

Through this time he got bitten by the surf bug in an area that got bugger all waves. He did an apprenticeship as a fitter and turner the the local brewery & soon after finishing that he flaged the crap work of that job & headed for the big smoke of the northern beaches of sydney for the lucrative life of surfboard shaping.

He did a stint at Bondi & in the mid 70's where he invented the "Kewarra Jet Bottom" which is a series of curved channelling running from nose to tail busting all forms of water tentions. Rapids are a form of those tentions (eg. if one was to run water thru a hose nossle on the bottom of a board the water find's it's own direction). So the JET begins....

The fitter and turner skills shape the future of a board that was never seen before & still stands it's ground today.

Jick Mebane, an hawaiian shaper in oz at the time, got inspired by the Jet & created his own version's he called the Jick Bottom.

The 70's was really the changing stage of board designs, but nothing came close the the extream of the JET concept. Erle moved to the gold coast shaping for pipedream making spin off jets & later for DHD.

Erle shaped "Jets" for the likes of Mick Fanning, Joel Parkinson in the Mid 80s and the likes of Pro Surfers from the U.S including Marty Thomas. Due to the production line of surfboards as we know it The Jet Bottom took time to make as it was such a hands on design & couldn't be massed produced, BUT now we have the technoligy. Kewarra Jets would love someone to take this beautiful peice of funtional art to the next level. Keep in mind the Jet Bottom Design Concept doesn't just lend itself to the surfboard

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