Lost – RNF 96

The RNF-96 Matt Biolos shaped multiple variations of fish from fall 1994 1995, and created a bit of momentum with the designs. Leading into Winter 95/96, he had refined a basic design where he was able fine tune, replicate and re-size the original RNF (by hand) with some consistency. Matt continued to build small quivers for both Chris Ward and Cory Lopez and sent them everywhere, with Cory taking various versions to each stop on WQS tour.

These 1996 Fish were all hand shaped and not the most consistent creations, but they became the basis and the building blocks towards offering the design to people outside our Matt’s circle of friends. They were the boards that teenaged Chris n Cory took to the North Shore and essentially made their indelible mark on the surfing universe.

The RNF-96 is based with reverence, but not 100% compliance, to original fish Lost developed for Chris and Cory in the year leading up to the 1997 seminal surf film 55 x 19 1/4. While very few specimens from this era still exist (at least in Matt’s possession) and most that do are very thin and imperfect relics of Corys boards (we cant find any of Chris from the era, at all) some of the re-creation and execution comes down to doing what looks and feels right and what will work best.

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