Just general surfing stuff

[Beanpole]

That was brilliant Steve, you're a wizard with the pen. Will you be taking it to the Mentawais?

Do you wanna take your tounge out his arse Al? He’a already said you can come to the ments

Yes, Loofy has priority.

[saltman]

That was brilliant Steve, you're a wizard with the pen. Will you be taking it to the Mentawais?

thanks Al, yes absolutely if it's still in one piece.

Maybe Al can take a spare pen to the ments for Steve

[Lucky Al]

Moving house the other day packing boxes I came across a jar full of biros in the back of a bookcase right down on the bottom shelf. Funny my son can never find a pen when it's homework time. Anyway for sure we will have pens galore on this trip don't worry about that, I'm going full quiver and then some.

[Beerfan]

Maybe Steve can do a pen review on the trip as well.

[steve shearer]

Bic Classic Fine or GTFO

[saltman]

Bic Classic Fine or GTFO

But seriously can you describe the bottom contours of the ghost a bit more.

[steve shearer]

V standard. Slight single concave under the front foot, light double in a vee out the back

[Nick Carroll]

Pyzel is a fan of matching the stringer rocker as closely to the rail rocker as he can manage, he has a lot of faith in his boards' natural lines after many years of Pipe, Sunset etc. You get that with a lot of the good Hawaii shapers, Arakawa, Bushman, Rawson etc, rocker beats bottom shape.

[saltman]

Ok more details on the rocker
Guessing no late tail lift

[Beanpole]

Maybe Steve can do a pen review on the trip as well.

Yeah, so what pen range are we packing?
Fountain?
Artline?
Ballpoint of course.

[Slobadan Madicubich]

Maybe Steve can do a pen review on the trip as well.

Yeah, so what pen range are we packing?
Fountain?
Artline?
Ballpoint of course.

YOUR packing nothing

[Beanpole]

That's you're Slobbo.
I'm a fountain pen man myself.....but you're right Im not getting on any Good Ship Venus.

[steve shearer]

Long smooth, low, unbroken rocker curve extending back from front foot
V subtle but distinctive. I see it as being similar to the rocker curve on my 9 ft Brewer

[Thud]

It's seems subtle bottom contours are a feature of a good modern surfboard.

[ctd]

That's you're Slobbo.
I'm a fountain pen man myself.....but you're right Im not getting on any Good Ship Venus.

Just make sure no one has looked up and been inspired by the (v NSFW) /r/buttsharpie reddit forum before the trip.

[Wyre]

I'm fixing up a pretty nice 7'6" pintail thing, I've had it for years and years and only really now after about 10 years surfing down here I've come to the point where I might, might think about using it every now and then.

Anyway, I've put whatever FCS fins in (and yeah Braithy I agree the Futures system is brilliant!) from some stock stick I can find and they look piteously small. What's the word on fin size with a bigger board like this? Big waves equals big balls and fins?

[BA]

Swellnets wave of the day. Look familiar rustt?

[saltman]

I'm fixing up a pretty nice 7'6" pintail thing, I've had it for years and years and only really now after about 10 years surfing down here I've come to the point where I might, might think about using it every now and then.

Anyway, I've put whatever FCS fins in (and yeah Braithy I agree the Futures system is brilliant!) from some stock stick I can find and they look piteously small. What's the word on fin size with a bigger board like this? Big waves equals big balls and fins?

small tail area needs smaller Fins