I knew Aidan from Naish was in town so I stopped off to check out the action at St Kilda before our down-winder today.

The Naish boards looked good.. The weather looked awful.. unless you're doing a down-winder.



Nice deck pad on the new 11'4" Nalu.. if you're a hippie.



The new Naish paddles looked very nice.



This is the new 8" next to the new 7".. It's great to see Naish doing smaller blades.



The new RipCurl boards looks pretty good.. The big 11'6" was an old SouthPoint Kalama with RipCurl stickers.



I liked the retro RipCurl sticker.. Reminds me of my days on the RipCurl team.





A lull in the wind and someone decides to demo a 10' Mana.. wearing a hoodie.. Was it cold.. Yeah.



Moments later a 40 knot gust heads down the beach and you can see the dark line coming across the water.. then boards were flying down the beach.



We then headed off on our down-winder and about an hour later stopped off at Green Point so we could all regroup.




One of the windsurfing guys wanted to have a go on a stand up board for the first time and took the Naish 14 for a spin.. and he was hooked.



The wind really kicked to over 40 knots and turned slightly offshore and Paul had to resort to knee paddling to get around the corner.



My Naish 14 and Paul's 12'6" Pin on the roof of Paul's PT Cruiser.

DJ

I really should have listened to Ross' call to stick to the coast. The touch of east in that northerly threatened to send us to Queenscliff. It ended up being a one side of the board paddle the whole way.

They cant be the new 2011 naish range?? and is that a 9'0

I thought they had a half white rail

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boarder paul said...

They cant be the new 2011 naish range?? and is that a 9'0

I thought they had a half white rail

The only new board in these pics with the 2011 colour scheme is the 11'4". The rest are due to arrive next week.

Awsome, Thanks is this a old version of a 9 ?? or ??

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boarder paul said...

They cant be the new 2011 naish range?? and is that a 9'0

I thought they had a half white rail

There's about 30 boards in the new range.. So you can see they weren't all there..

Here's some pictures from todays down-winder.

Aidan from Naish joined Alan and myself today.. We didn't get 30+ knots that were forcast but still enough wind and from the right direction to have a good run.

DJ

I don't have a problem with "boardies over wettie" !! But others do !

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Simondo said...

I don't have a problem with "boardies over wettie" !! But others do !

Must be a Naish thing

PS - that wasn't me in the Naish Yellow Boardies !!
We were elsewhere on the wider expanse of the same waterway!

The boardies over wettie thing is a bit of a strange phenomena. Personally, I can't see it catching on - not yellow checked ones anyway. I might try jeans over a wettie next time, if I can wake up in time for the next one.

Maybe that will catch on.

Is Al sporting a new wettie? I kinda miss the fluoro.

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Rosscoe said...

Is Al sporting a new wettie? I kinda miss the fluoro.

Yeah.. A new wettie for Alan.. I think the surf museum wants his old one..

You guys just wait and see.. One day all flat water paddlers will be wearing boardies over wetties..

DJ