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[Rustt]

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Yeah, it's to replace the 6'7" quad I've been surfing for 5 years, it was one of the best boards I have owned so this one has alot to live up too. To be quite honest I can't tell you much about it as I lost interest ages ago about how boards work, I just asked for a 6'8" to do the same job as the last one. Which is that it is made for 1 to 3ft slop but will be surfed in 6 ft barrels if I find any and am in the mood, sometimes I like a board that's skates a bit in clean waves.
I especially like this guys board cause he hand shapes, glasses and sands them, don't know if he does that normally.
Just waiting for it to cure, will be trying it out on the annual holiday next week, will be surfin with your old mate Harry.

It does feel thick underarm.

[marauding mullet]

I reeeeaally want to come out there too, spoke to a couple of other mates on the phone out there recently.
I might have to use my running-away-from-home money and throw the board in the car and do the Harold Holt.

[Rustt]

Don't forget your wetsuit

[oldman]

Wife's new sled. Jealous.

I have one of these,

and I recently bought a Simon Mollusc.

Yep, plenty of foam in them, plenty of speed and paddle power too.

I need the foam, not that I'm big, just that I'm competing with people 30 years younger than me, or people who are older than me who are riding long mals, and I refuse to go to a mal.

I can't see that the extra foam equates to loss of performance, and it certainly equates to getting more waves.

And the build quality on the Simon's seems extremely good, if my uninformed opinion means anything to you.

[bomboraa]

Hey BA scuse my dumbness but what model Simon did you gift the cheese and kisses?
And BA have you done a bit of a ride report on your two Simons -your mollusc and what other model? Face the same situation!

[bomboraa]

Reason asking as simon site has XFC in rounded square only.

[Natho]

You can get the XFC as a rounded pin. I have one as a step up board and it is insane.

[alakaboo]

Both mine.
Still curing. Will post better pics when I get them in a week or so.
One at the back is a 6' roundtail thruster. Slightly more volume to account for less frequent surfing.
One at the front is a short skateboardy sort of thing. I suggested 5'8", Huie said he'd see what he came up with. Think it is shorter

[steve shearer]

love that colour.

[BA]

Hey BA scuse my dumbness but what model Simon did you gift the cheese and kisses?
And BA have you done a bit of a ride report on your two Simons -your mollusc and what other model? Face the same situation!

It's a Face Dancer. I don't have any other Simons. Oldman does as above in his post.

[bomboraa]

Thanks BA and yeah oops meant to ask oldman for a quick appraisal of his two Simons

[Nick Carroll]

Couldn't recall if this is the place everyone was posting their guns but whatever. Here's three out of the garage.

From left

8'1" six channel pintail shaped by Allan Byrne, glassed and sanded by Steve McDuell. One of the most important boards (to me) I've owned. I wrote about it in White Horses after AB died. 1997 vintage. It had a leg rope arch instead of a plug and when the arch ripped through one big Sunset day, I sanded off the remnant, so this board has no leg rope attachment. When you surf it, you either make every wave or swim. It is a deep contact with everything meaningful to me in surfing.

9'6" single fin for Waimea Bay. Shaped by Pat Rawson, glassed by Jack Reeves, sanded by Charlie Walker, the greatest board making collaboration ever, aside maybe from Brewer next to Pat. This board was made in 1988, so it's 26 years of age, and I'd surf it tomorrow. (Actually I might surf it on Thursday!) Flat bottom to slight vee ahead of the fin. I've ridden the biggest paddle-in waves of my life on this thing. It's been through hell; up on the point rocks at Waimea on 25 foot days, the lot, and it doesn't give a shit.

8'6" Sunset mega gun, by the same trio as above in 1999. This was a replacement for a slightly better version that I snapped on an absolutely colossal west swell day at Sunset. It has a slight double concave to spiral vee and a really nice thickness distribution that you can't see in this shot. I'm gonna sand the fins off and turn it into a quad because it will love that shit.

[alakaboo]

Not very modern, Nick.

I have trouble getting my head around the lines of guns and semi-guns.
They look too narrow and pointy.

I got a 6'8" last year but I haven't surfed it yet, not that I get much chance up here, but it just doesn't look right when I pull it out of the rack.

[channels]

Couldn't recall if this is the place everyone was posting their guns but whatever. Here's three out of the garage.

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From left

8'1" six channel pintail shaped by Allan Byrne, glassed and sanded by Steve McDuell. One of the most important boards (to me) I've owned. I wrote about it in White Horses after AB died. 1997 vintage. It had a leg rope arch instead of a plug and when the arch ripped through one big Sunset day, I sanded off the remnant, so this board has no leg rope attachment. When you surf it, you either make every wave or swim. It is a deep contact with everything meaningful to me in surfing.

9'6" single fin for Waimea Bay. Shaped by Pat Rawson, glassed by Jack Reeves, sanded by Charlie Walker, the greatest board making collaboration ever, aside maybe from Brewer next to Pat. This board was made in 1988, so it's 26 years of age, and I'd surf it tomorrow. (Actually I might surf it on Thursday!) Flat bottom to slight vee ahead of the fin. I've ridden the biggest paddle-in waves of my life on this thing. It's been through hell; up on the point rocks at Waimea on 25 foot days, the lot, and it doesn't give a shit.

8'6" Sunset mega gun, by the same trio as above in 1999. This was a replacement for a slightly better version that I snapped on an absolutely colossal west swell day at Sunset. It has a slight double concave to spiral vee and a really nice thickness distribution that you can't see in this shot. I'm gonna sand the fins off and turn it into a quad because it will love that shit.

When I looked at the photo only, I was thinking of asking whether you would be interested in selling the AB. Then I read the comments under the photo and thought that would just be insulting. Beautiful looking boards, can't even imagine being in the type of surf that the Brewer or the Rawson are designed for.

[steve shearer]

what kind of quad set-up?

boxes or glass ons?

[marauding mullet]

It had a leg rope arch instead of a plug and when the arch ripped through one big Sunset day,

I love the bridge, they're strong as hell (Ok you wrecked one at sunset ) you never see them anymore. Probably more time consuming to make?

[Nick Carroll]

what kind of quad set-up?

boxes or glass ons?

sort of like a Stretch gun, i.e. quite spaced out, I wanna use Futures if the boxes will fit which I think they will.

[Nick Carroll]

channels I'm sure my kids will sell it to you after I'm dead.