Dims. 9.0 x 32, 7.96 kg , no fins, wohooo can't wait

Nice one Flowmaster , should be nice and stable

How many liters ???

How many liters ???

around 130 L, so yeah some volume en 32 wide, need the stability in the conditions over here.
Bretagne is waaaay better I would have gone narrower where you live

Blown away by the stunning quality off the board, finaly it's here and it looks fantastic , better then in the pictures.
Anyway I hope for some surf soon, so I can post a revieuw on that

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flowmaster said..
Blown away by the stunning quality off the board, finaly it's here and it looks fantastic , better then in the pictures.
Anyway I hope for some surf soon, so I can post a revieuw on that

Yes, I have 2 Smik Customs (Hipster Twin and Style Lord) at home and the quality is never disappointing, in fact I am waiting for the arrival of my new Smik Custom Wingfoil board in the next few days.
Here in Europe Smik is a discreet brand but which really deserves to be known because the quality of its products is so good.

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Fatben said..
Here in Europe Smik is a discreet brand but which really deserves to be known because the quality of its products is so good.

Yes, but take also into account the price: In France for instance a production SUP SMiK is as expensive as a custom carbon + PVC sandwich vacuum bagged board shaped and glassed in France. This may matter.

I can't tell wich is better, but the quality and construction is very good, the board feels light and from the revieuws I was convinced that the performance is good.

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Fatben said..
Here in Europe Smik is a discreet brand but which really deserves to be known because the quality of its products is so good.

Yes, but take also into account the price: In France for instance a production SUP SMiK is as expensive as a custom carbon + PVC sandwich vacuum bagged board shaped and glassed in France. This may matter.

Having done a lot of research before having my Smik customs made, first of all finding shapers specializing in SUP who make them regularly and who have models recognized / proven here in France and even in Europe is complicated and there are not many of them. Then that these shapers make their boards in sandwich / PVC is even rarer ... And for the very very rare shapers who could make them the prices are at least as expensive or even much more expensive than standard Smik SUPs or even Custom. For information, I am a simple customer and not a brand ambassador.

Had my first surf today, the moment the board was here, the surf went flat for a long period until today.
This morning there was no wind wich did not meant that it was clean. Suspected the wind stayed on to long last night.
Waves where waist to chest high and closing out but being desperate after the long flat period makes you wanna deal with anything.
The board has a sweet spot that's not that big, standing to much back and the tail sinks, to much up front and the same happens on the nose, you have to get used to it but when you do it's stable but I'm glad I went for 32 wide.
As almost always here, not very clean and always current, but ok for standing out waiting for the bigger ones.
Pics up the waves nice and early, the wide nose kind of makes it stable when you paddle into the wave.
Feels light and reaction sensitive, loose and boy, this baby is fast, rail to rail is very smooth and I think the two bigger fins in combination with the smaller mid fin are spot on.
I'm curious however if Qoaba fins and I'm thinking big normal glas sidefins and a smaller mid fin would work even better, has anyone tryed this set up on this board and what is the effect?

Flowmaster...please ride the board as it's designed ..at least for a while,this is not a criticism,we can all get ahead of ourselves,with the buzz of a new board.and whatiff's I personally have made this mistake many times !!!Scott and team riders have fine tuned these boards over a long period of time .and according to a lot of very happy suppers ,appear to have a magic formula with them,enjoy the board

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I'm curious however if Qoaba fins and I'm thinking big normal glas sidefins and a smaller mid fin would work even better,

Quobba will always work better than normal fins, but their effect is mainly at high speed, where they seem to remove a sort of "speed limiter" that exists on normal fins with the interference drag between the hull and the fins. Something that cutaway fins also aim to reduce, but by losing a lot of hold.

So yes, if you like to surf "fast, smooth rail to rail", Quobbas will be your friends for life :-)

@ Just ad water
I will keep the original fins and test these out for sure,it's just that I know fins are very importand in the performance off any board.
So the C drive fins complemented my Sunovas Speeed in the conditions that we have over here, and I choose other fins for France.

@ Colas
Flexibility off normal glass is the go I gues ?

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@ Colas
Flexibility off normal glass is the go I gues ?

It depends on preferences.
By trying to flex the fins by hand I'd say the carbon Quobba (which have 4% carbon if I recall well) flex twice less than the glass ones, which seems as rigid as FCS "PC" construction.

On the water, I find that the Quobba carbons provide a more positive feel, useful for pushing hard on them (vertical surfing), while the glass provide for a smoother drive (horizontal surfing). By taste I would prefer the glass ones, then.

I tend to use carbons on the sides and glass on the rears.
And all glass for my small wave board (the Mob) to enhance "pumpability".
But using only carbon or only glass won't bother me, the difference is not so big.

Note that carbon may be better for the FCS versions, to compensate the fact that FCS 1 tabs provide less rigidity than the future base.