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Anyone know someone good to fix a minor crease on the Northern Beaches?.

Surfed the Pyzel on the weekend and it went insane. Unfortunately I creased it. The crease is only fairly shallow and barely broke the glass. It did not go through the stringer. Basically it runs just in front of the side fin from inside the stringer to just before the rail. Basically its inside one of the double concaves, but luckily not through the rail or stringer.
My thoughts are that it is well worth fixing given its fairly minor as far as creases go and at least it is only on one side of the board. The other side is perfectly in tact. My thoughts are that the chance of it snapping outside the crease are at least reduced given it only on one side. Any suggestions for someone good?.

Natho wrote:Anyone know someone good to fix a minor crease on the Northern Beaches?.

Surfed the Pyzel on the weekend and it went insane. Unfortunately I creased it. The crease is only fairly shallow and barely broke the glass. It did not go through the stringer. Basically it runs just in front of the side fin from inside the stringer to just before the rail. Basically its inside one of the double concaves, but luckily not through the rail or stringer.
My thoughts are that it is well worth fixing given its fairly minor as far as creases go and at least it is only on one side of the board. The other side is perfectly in tact. My thoughts are that the chance of it snapping outside the crease are at least reduced given it only on one side. Any suggestions for someone good?.

Natho, I've been using Splash at Brookvale. They did a couple of good repairs for me (not creases). Always seem to be busy, so maybe worth a try. Their at 19 Orchard Road.

Thanks

el rancho wrote:yeah this is 18 wide. don't even own a board narrower than 19 & 1/4

I had a 6'6" custom shaped for indo a few years, was 18" wide and 2 3/8" thick with glassed fins.

I hated it. paddling was bitch. was surfing a burleigh like reef on panaitan island with it, and it'd take me 15-20 minutes to paddle back up the point on it, everyone else was doing it in 5. There was one section where yadin nichol and wade goodall where airing over it while sedley and woody were floating over it.

I would hit the same section with minimal speed and just get buckled and bent in half on it. never made the section once on it. paddled back to the boat after an hour and swapped it for a little 6'1" JS swallow tail and made that section every time with a long swooping bottom turn coming from a super high line just as I approached the section and would fly around it.

every shift of your feet, and every weight transfer on the thinner heavily rockered board would mean bogging something, slowing down or going over the handlebars.

report back with how you get on with your but. i'm super interested.

update on the Pyzel 'Flash' (now fixed).

Well this is as close to a magic board that I have had in ages for good waves in the 2-5 foot range. Very neutral board in that it does not have or do too much of anything. Basically the board just goes where and does what I want it to without even thinking much about the board. To me that is a good sign of a magic HPS. Doesn't feel super fast, though I suspect it is much faster than it feels as it eats up fast sections. Doesn't feel super lifty. Its loose in the back end but seems to control and hold well in steeper waves. In fact I got one of my best barrels of the year on it and the board just held its line through to the exit, even when the wave pinched at the end. Surfing this board seemed to lift my surfing to another level. Super responsive but very controlled and sure of itself at the same time. It could be that I was feeling very mentally and physically tuned to the sessions I had on this board, however Im going to give credit to the board though. The rocker feels sublime.

The Mermaid and Pyzel are two very different beasts. The mermaid is much more lifty and has much more feeling of true acceleration. The Pyzel has a far more neutral feeling to it. The mermaid is more snappy with a sharper turning radius. Then again it is also 3 inches shorter and 1 inch wider.

Overall Mermaid is faster in feeling and feels a bit like surfing a hover craft but with control. The board does a lot of the work for you and feels like its got an engine in turbo underneath.It covers a lot of ground quickly. With the Pyzel you need to do more of the driving but it will take you wherever you want to go. The mermaid is more of a racing car for small waves. The Pyzel is more of a high end Merc or BMW that is very sure of itself.

took the bourton banana board out yesterday morning, with a mild hangover. surf was shitter than it looked and was mostly just paddling around aimlessly.

did a sick floater on it though and thought for all money I'd nosedive the landing. saved by the obscene amount of rocker.

I'd be keen to hear your report on it after a solid dbah session at 4-5 ft

Natho re: repair try John at Chaos, he does repairs. No bullshit stand up guy.

I've been riding this lately...JD...oh so fast!

Love the bottom, is that one piece, or a few strips?. I'm due for another JD and I love the timber in the bottom of them.

Without looking at it I'm pretty sure it's several strips...concave deck feels great under foot too...

And...its got a big phat nose...like yours wingy...MR tried to kill me today, but fark solid and hollow as.

nice job Salty- what dims? That pic shows the single concave v nicely

saltman wrote:Just picked up this from the laminator- First time I have had one of my own done in epoxy.
feels very nice
Single concave through to slight v behind the back fins

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Weird how one pic shows up and the others stay as jpg's

very parallel plan shape,

" post your early eighties belly channel thruster sickness "

Just picked this up for $50 off an old bloke in dulwich hill. A garage clean out.

He had no idea about surfboards. Gave me the measurements in centimetres over the phone.

Works out at 6'3 x 19.75' x 2.75

I've finally got myself a JD! Check out the Astro! 5'8 x 19.5" x 2.5" goes like the clappers and not only turns on threepence it gets faster!