Peter Turner went on to co-found the ski company Drake PowderworkS, better known as DPS, and discussed ways of improving on the Spatula design with McConkey, including by adding a small amount of side cut underfoot to give the ski controllability in hard snow or in risky conditions such as a ridge line traverse or the top of a snow chute. Turner designed these attributes into the DPS Lotus 138. McConkey told Turner that DPS did a good job with that design.
