Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
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.
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.
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
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.
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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.
the poly ones with a little spray, ridden fashionably short look tits. five nine or ten and you'd be ruling junky point peelers.
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
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.
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.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
steve shearer wrote: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
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that pink board looks dynamite
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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.
damm thing surfs great though.
I don't like the straight railed tail pod on that LSD fish.
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
steve if i get a bright red bonzer octafish, what colour should the fins be?
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
l'orange
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
Looks like a McT scooter?steve shearer wrote: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.
Had a 6'6" quad scooter which was a barrel of fun.
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yep, it's a scooter.
hard to find the two plus one versions.
they come as a single or quad.
hard to find the two plus one versions.
they come as a single or quad.
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
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.loofy wrote:What about the Campbell bros bonzer egg... In say a 6'10 to be ridden on small cruisy days....
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Noice!steve shearer wrote:yep, it's a scooter.
hard to find the two plus one versions.
they come as a single or quad.
Betcha it would feel good with some FCS bonzer sides on it.
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
Glad to see a happy ending for the voucher.steve shearer wrote:yep, it's a scooter.
hard to find the two plus one versions.
they come as a single or quad.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
Nice! Except for the ***** coloursteve shearer wrote: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.
Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
pinhead wrote: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.steve shearer wrote:I'm familiar with the Mandala ouvre.
Out of interest - have you ridden a mandala or NPJ? And what is this ouvre experience i'm meant to have been having?
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Re: Building the ultimate trendy Mid-Length.
neal purchase jar's boards are entirely functional
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i know - i own a few - and i own a mandala, which is also functional - but what is this experience?
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