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buddy wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 02, 2023 3:01 pm

Just had a look at the bottom contours
Fish has a flat rocker with subtle single to double and flat exit after the rear fin.
Short has a nice balance good wave rocker with single concave all the way that is really deep between the middle and the fins.

Heavy flyers, assume they offset the flat rocker?

Dunno
Will see how it surfs.
Small waves so nothing wrong with flattened rocker.

I've been eyeing the Maurice Cole reverse vee shortboards and grovelers, thinking I'll get one for the flatter waves here.

How much does an MC in the states cost compared to say Channel Islands, Pyzel, FireWire?

For a 6ft standardish thruster:
Channel Islands about 700
Pyzel Ghost about 800
MC about 800
FireWire about 900

Sale prices differ substantially though, MCs can be had for $400.
They're ghost shaped, not by Maurice.
Not that the others are done by the guy with his name on the stringer.

An MC on sale sounds like a bargain then.

Deffo.

sounds like you can find FW bargains too.

Boards look tits Buddy.

Bummed you didn't run a quad set on that groveller though.

Ordered a 6'2" Maurice shorty. Will post pics when it arrives in a couple of weeks.

Noice

The MC arrived.
Carries a lot of volume with a flat deck and beak nose. I was humming and ahhing between the 6'0" and the 6'2" and probably should've gone with the smaller one.

Still feels like it's got good lines.

Which one Boo?

Reverse vee shorty. That's the model name.

oh yeah.
photos?

That the Tom Curren screw up board?

Same range and basic principle, slightly modernized contours and a shorter and wider outline.

Got the shorty out today for the first time, only four waves caught, and only one decent turn, but enough to feel it out.

It was the right call to go up in size for the extra wetsuit weight, so happy with that.
The beak nose really carries a lot of foam forward, it's noticeable on duck dives and combined with the flatter nose rocker you have to keep weight a little further forward when paddling for waves.

Once up and riding the board is very user friendly, it's got a sort of self-righting quality where you can take off on pretty ambitious angles and it squirts you down the line. Also seems to want to sit higher on the face, like a McCoy or a rail centric quad.
The tail flip lets you get a little slashy, and it is a pretty wide and forgiving platform for foam bounce top turns.

In terms of build quality, the foam and glassing are very good. PU/PE with dense foam, but there's some sort of brightener or something in the stringer glue, it has almost a blacklight brightness to it. Bit weird in the flat foggy light.
The leash plug is deep and annoying to get the string through and one of the fin screws was set poorly and hard to tighten.

Overall it is a 6.5/10 so far but it will probably end up closer to an 8.