Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.

[Cuttlefish]

The deep doubles on the Woosley vquad I posted a link to early on in this thread have me converted.
The right blend of concaves, rocker and foil on that board make it something special.
For the waves you're talking about Pinhead it eats them both up.

[pinhead]

Obviously rocker and foil are critical, but for a board 21" wide and 7' long with a lot of straight rail + the fin area of that set up. You don't need anything else in the engine room. Flat bottom is less hassle to shape.

[steve shearer]

el rancho the fibreflex ones look caca. why would u waste money on over-engineered tech for a board like that?

the poly ones with a little spray, ridden fashionably short look tits. five nine or ten and you'd be ruling junky point peelers.

[steve shearer]

Ended up putting this project on hold.

two reasons: fell in love with short, full volume boards. My twinzer dumpling-creased, and this Bonzer Octafish. I snapped one of the side canards out on the point rocks and have been having a ball surfing it like this.



Two, ended up swapping the MacT voucher for this as new little slabby shortboard. It's heavy and runs really fun trim and power surfing lines at Pointbreaks. It'll run high lines for days on slopey Point surf and get loose in the pocket if you're spot on with your turn placement and don;t surf it like a thruster. It's my wifes board but I've had a few goes. That enormous single sits deep in the wave power...it's really all about finding those spots where that single fin can connect with the bottom tension or forward speed of a wave. Tons of volume, epic paddler.

[el rancho]

el rancho the fibreflex ones look caca. why would u waste money on over-engineered tech for a board like that?

the poly ones with a little spray, ridden fashionably short look tits. five nine or ten and you'd be ruling junky point peelers.

well if you're going for a mass-produced pop-out fish the LSD takes a big shit all over it's chest

[el rancho]

that pink board looks dynamite

[steve shearer]

yeah, I almost got in a fight the first time I rode it. it seems to attract negative attention from rednecks when being ridden by a bloke.

damm thing surfs great though.

I don't like the straight railed tail pod on that LSD fish.

[Lucky Al]

steve if i get a bright red bonzer octafish, what colour should the fins be?

[steve shearer]

l'orange

[Cuttlefish]

yeah, I almost got in a fight the first time I rode it. it seems to attract negative attention from rednecks when being ridden by a bloke.

damm thing surfs great though.

I don't like the straight railed tail pod on that LSD fish.

Looks like a McT scooter?
Had a 6'6" quad scooter which was a barrel of fun.

[steve shearer]

yep, it's a scooter.

hard to find the two plus one versions.

they come as a single or quad.

[bomboraa]

What about the Campbell bros bonzer egg... In say a 6'10 to be ridden on small cruisy days....

This would be like driving a rally car to the shops on a Saturday morn. Waste of potential if that's all you'll ask of it. My C Bros bonzer egg goes totally berko in hollow power, loves a barrel too.

[Cuttlefish]

yep, it's a scooter.

hard to find the two plus one versions.

they come as a single or quad.

Noice!
Betcha it would feel good with some FCS bonzer sides on it.

[Beanpole]

yep, it's a scooter.

hard to find the two plus one versions.

they come as a single or quad.

Glad to see a happy ending for the voucher.

[pinhead]

Ended up putting this project on hold.

two reasons: fell in love with short, full volume boards. My twinzer dumpling-creased, and this Bonzer Octafish. I snapped one of the side canards out on the point rocks and have been having a ball surfing it like this.



Two, ended up swapping the MacT voucher for this as new little slabby shortboard. It's heavy and runs really fun trim and power surfing lines at Pointbreaks. It'll run high lines for days on slopey Point surf and get loose in the pocket if you're spot on with your turn placement and don;t surf it like a thruster. It's my wifes board but I've had a few goes. That enormous single sits deep in the wave power...it's really all about finding those spots where that single fin can connect with the bottom tension or forward speed of a wave. Tons of volume, epic paddler.

Nice! Except for the ***** colour

[batoes]

I'm familiar with the Mandala ouvre.

That's what I don't like about Mandala. Being an ouvre means performance is only a small part of the user experience, aethetics, non-tangible spiritual associations and so on making up the balance. However I do think that shape, as big as you can duck dive it (7'?) with the NeilPurchase Junior (another ouvre) 2+1 set up would be pretty serviceable in certain conditions. I'm thinking catching the wide bombs on big point days, long rolling waves like flat rock or small beachies. Would be easy to shape if you could get the right blank, I wouldn't bother with any of that concave to spiral vee to dome nonsense just do a flat bottom.

Out of interest - have you ridden a mandala or NPJ? And what is this ouvre experience i'm meant to have been having?

[el rancho]

neal purchase jar's boards are entirely functional

[batoes]

i know - i own a few - and i own a mandala, which is also functional - but what is this experience?