The Fin

by Kevin
(Waianae, H.I. U.S.A.)

Early Hawaiians use to fashion what looked to be a dorsal fin on the top of their boards (shark detourant) for fishing. This was called a PHEG. One magical morning on the island of Oahu just outside queens, a young Hawaiian boy wiped out on his board. He then watched his board flip over and start to make the most graceful turns he had ever seen. This could only be the works of Pele( a hawaiian god). So they embraced the upside down board, and invented what is still known to Hawaiian waterman this very day as the MAGNUM PHEG or the first fin/skeg that we know of.