Midlengths

[marauding mullet]

Hey!! Beanpole,was it you that said you had a Carver, and you liked it?
If so, was it Tuflite or PU.
And what size? Answer immediately please.

[foamy]

I think it was Beanpole? Someone here had a McTavish carver and liked it.
Was it a tuflite or PU and what size was it?
The tuflite ones I’ve seen have a round tail and the PU ones a squash

Yeah, it's still my default board of choice for crazy Bondi or if I haven't been surfing for a while. Mine is 7'11" tuflite which is half like a performance mal. Very comfortable in small to overhead surf. A bit buoyant for hollow waves but apart from duck diving they are solid.

[marauding mullet]

I think it was Beanpole? Someone here had a McTavish carver and liked it.
Was it a tuflite or PU and what size was it?
The tuflite ones I’ve seen have a round tail and the PU ones a squash

Yeah, it's still my default board of choice for crazy Bondi or if I haven't been surfing for a while. Mine is 7'11" tuflite which is half like a performance mal. Very comfortable in small to overhead surf. A bit buoyant for hollow waves but apart from duck diving they are solid.

Thanks foamball, legend! Nothing wrong with your memory.
There’s one for sale here.

[marauding mullet]

As you were Beanpole, it sold almost straight away. (Not to me)

[Cranked]

I think it was Beanpole? Someone here had a McTavish carver and liked it.
Was it a tuflite or PU and what size was it?
The tuflite ones I’ve seen have a round tail and the PU ones a squash

Yeah, it's still my default board of choice for crazy Bondi or if I haven't been surfing for a while. Mine is 7'11" tuflite which is half like a performance mal. Very comfortable in small to overhead surf. A bit buoyant for hollow waves but apart from duck diving they are solid.

Thanks foamball, legend! Nothing wrong with your memory.
There’s one for sale here.

I've had three of the surftech ones MM, something like a 7'2, 7'6, 7'11' (can't remember the exact sizes) all of them where great boards, go well in anything from 2' to double overhead. Never got them in anything really hollow though.

[marauding mullet]

Yep thanks cranky, I’ll keep my eye out, this one went in a couple of hours.

[Beanpole]

Missed this one. Haven’t ridden mine for a while. I have a Carver Fish too. They don’t make them anymore. That was a good board for solid waves. A bit more gunny with a conventional pointed nose. Easier to duck dive. I caught some good big rights at Balian on that board. I love how that breaks on the right with a bigger swell. The peak just pushes you into it as it backs off and then stands up properly and walls right through.

[Thud]

Get a CI mid. More performance than a carver.

[Beanpole]

If I was thinking about a “midlength” I would get a Tolhurst. Hand shapes are cheaper than his Thunderbolt ones

[Thud]

Those Thunderbolts are 1700 ay

[Cranked]

I've got a 7'4 Tolhurst Thunderbolt, but I think I'm gonna take a 6'6" Element "Scrambled Egg" and a 7' Aloha Fun Division to Bali

[Thud]

Just ordered a 6’6 Nautilus from Christensen

[Cranked]

Looks great:

[alakaboo]

I have a powder snowboard shaped by Christensen, it's fucking awesome.

[Thud]

He’s awesome

[Thud]

Looks great:

I think that’s a 6’10.

[steve shearer]

Looks very straight railed through the aft end.

How are you going to turn it?

[Thud]

I’m putting a steering wheel on it.

Complex bottom apparently. You’d have to ask someone who knows about board design. Seen a few peeps ride them and they look good. He's a pretty good shaper I'm told and I have his fish, that I like. This for larger and juicier. So guess we'll see.

General comment. Reckon modern US shapers are better than Australian. I have 3 CI's (Rocket Wide, Mid and Fred Rubble), Christensen Fish and have had JS's (Monster Box, Nitro) and DHD (3DV, Margo) etc..and they seems average unless you are buying one of their HPSB, the rest are OK only, bar MR of course he’s the bomb

Most board riders and peeps here ride CI or Pyzel

Just stirring. Who knows who the better shapers are.