"The 6'2" is a little bit undervolumed but can I buy it"? Asks Cuttlefish.
"No, everyone who demos one wants to buy the demo". Replies Dave.
I'm dissapointed at this but then Dave suggests, "I'll make you a new one in a 6'4" with the right amount of volume".
Problem solved...well not really...have to find the money to pay for it.
Here's come a quiver adjustment.
So after riding the Diverse Broad bean, Dynocore, demo in a 6'2" X 21" X 2&3/4" (38.5 litres) at good 3' Burleigh, 3' at my local point and then giving it back and collecting it again to ride it in 3-5' reeling Broken head with good barrels on offer I was sold on the Dynocore technology and the versatility of the Broad bean shape. Got one wave that opened
up in front and the back door barrel I got will keep being replayed in my mind for years to come. Took a high line into it and then turned back down the face as it really started sucking up and the Broad bean handled the speed and drop down the face like a performance
shortboard beleing its rounded, low rockered hybrid shape.
I'm 6'1" and 92-93 odd kgs (205-210lbs) but 48 years old so I'd been surfing all kinds of boards over the last several years to keep age at bay and keep the surfing experience as fresh and varied as possible.
Fish of all species (twins and quads, traditional and modern, poly and epoxies) have been favourites. Also explored mid-lengths and longboards from 8-10'again in both poly's and epoxies. Old school. modern hp explored the differences.
Pretty much rode anything that took my interest. Many of my recent boards (if poly) were either glassed in 6+6 to resist heel denting and the knocks of everyday handling out of the water and mis-haps in the water.
After riding many and varied craft i can really appreciate a great hybrid and the Broad bean is just that.
It has an eps stringerless core with a secret sauce blend of resins and laminated in a mix of innegra, carbon fibre and other weaves strategically placed to give the best blend of flex and strength while mainatining lightness.
More than this I don't know about the building of the board but I do know it works well and I can testify to it's strength. I duckdived one wave in shallow water on the demo and the lip drilled me into the bottom. My cheek hit the deck so hard I thought I'd broken it.
Did absolutely nothing to the deck.
I actually like boards that last but trouble of course with poly construction is heavier glass jobs are...you guessed it...heavy, which deadens the flex and cuts into that lively feeling.
The Dynocore construction feels great underfoot with the flex giving it a very lively feel. One wave I was on at Burleigh and could see the wave running away from me and thought I wouldn't make the section. Oh well, might as well give it a shot and before I knew it I've made the section and into a cutback.
Dave has built in front foot heel dents because the decks are so resistant to heeldenting. Going to be good having a board that doesn't have a deck that looks like the surface of the moon after a few surfs but still has the lightness to surf like a lightly glassed poly performance board.
Yet it has a normal epoxy board feel to it rather than a corky tuflite feel. Anyway after only a few weeks wait time I've received my own Broad bean in a 6'4" X 21" X 2&7/8" and 42.1 litres of volume.
Unfortunately the waves were only 1' today for its first surf. Small, weak waves and I have never really got along. The Broad bean paddled through the flats well and caught waves really easily. I have a bad habit of sitting further out than I should and this morning I was sitting out with the longboarders and catching waves easily which is not the norm for me.
Very happy with that. The Bean allowed me to do quick off the tops before the wave fattened out. Planing really well across the full, gutless inside sections in a fishy way.
The extra 2" of length, thickness and overall litreage boost had the water level at my lower ribs when the board was level underneath me.
Very comfortable with this level of float.
Used Sunny Garcia front fins and GX pc composite rears.
The first time I rode the shorter demo it had M5 fronts and M3 rears. I found it good except I could overpower the tail and have it sliding in cutbacks.
Using Stretch template fronts and M5's in the rear solved the tail sliding but tightened it up a touch too much when coming off the top.
Hopefully the Sunny fronts and GX rears should be good in better waves.
Got the new board stoke going on but still level headed enough to know this is going to be a favourite.
It won't be a Magic carpet but rather a magic bean.
Here's a few pics...
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Versatraction from scraps used on the deck so no wax too.
Here's a link to Dave's site with poly Broad beans....
http://store.diversesurf.com.au/categor ... road-Bean/
. My marriage probably wouldn't support another bought board hehe. The SG model looks super fun, and something i know i'd enjoy, in pretty much everything i surf.
