There is a video by Paul Chapman on the Sup general page. The 8'0" Loose Leaf is a beautiful looking board, awesome construction with a lot of thought into the design. Not sure if Tom's board was quite the volume as the specs above, probably tweaked a bit for his size and skills but he said the production boards are basically the same. Sure they will rip and people will love them. Will bump the video up on the other page.

Fastest Sup I have ridden. Very stable for size and the Greenough inspired centre fin Tom was using is awesome. Imagine with the TC quads it would be off the hook fast.

Thanks AA, it's sounding good. I really like TC's style of sup riding. I think his nose to tail style is how it should be done, rather than just trying to ride like its a shortboard. I'm glad he's bringing out a range with an emphasis on that. Any idea what the construction is like?

NNSUP said..
Tom's new boards look awesome. AA was nearly wetting himself with excitement when TC gave us the low down on the boards the other night. Certainly a range to look forward to.

That was good!

Anyone got any thoughts on the double concave and vee in the nose? It looks quite pronounced.

I wonder whether it counters yaw when you're paddling and then when up and riding it gets out of the water more....or could ,it make the nose tend to track?

Tang said..
Anyone got any thoughts on the double concave and vee in the nose? It looks quite pronounced.

I wonder whether it counters yaw when you're paddling and then when up and riding it gets out of the water more....or could ,it make the nose tend to track?

We asked Patrice Guénolé, he told us that it helps the board track in noserides, so that you can use a smaller fin than with a flat nose without sliding down the face. It also soften the braking effect when the nose touches the water. However, it rides differently in noserides and can be difficult to reproduce consistently in production.

Myself, I see that the rail shape is also quite special. And the distribution of volume seem typical of Blane shapes (volume centered in the middle).

Anyways, it is always good to see innovative designs.

I didn't get a chance to ride this at Merimbula(because AA was frothing so hard on it he wouldn't let it go) but it looks fantastic in the flesh. The small handful of guys that did ride it all came back with the same mental grin that AA had every time he was in the water.

marvinhecht said..
more links - the new Tom Caroll boards look really nice, and the video of him surfiing them is incredible!

www.mensjournal.com/adventure/tom-carroll-paddle-surfing
www.surfindustries.com.au/surfboards/tom-carroll-paddle-surf.php (page takes a while to load)

Was just down at Kirra Surf (the store) and spotted 2 TC boards on the floor. A 10'4 which looked very big but light and a 9' which, wow , very different with a huge V on the bottom deck up front and a very different rail set up.
The board is very thin in front and back but thickens out in the middle. Sorry about the poor description but I really know diddly about board construction.The rails sit up from the bottom deck and I know this sounds silly but reminded me of a step deck but from the bottom. Feel free to bag me and my description but you'll just have to see it for yourself. Hope GSI have fixed the problem they had a few years ago with soft decks on their boards.
I'd love to try it out so hopefully we'll get some demo boards in. I think it would look good in my garage alongside my Fanatic carbon Allwave. (OW! my wife just hit me on the back of the head.)
Unfortunately for Kirra Surf they have got some terrible heavy metal Trident paddles and no carbon paddles to go with what is a beautiful looking board.

Love to try one....wonder if they are tricky to ride? Not many have the skills of Tom CarrolL.

That's my guess. The V will part chop, as well as not acting like a sail on take off.
I have a similar bottom shape on my mals and it works well

burleighlocal said..
I surf a Naish Hokua xe32 le and am in the market for something with a lot less rocker and is suitable for up to 2 ft....

Get a "wide ass" (mini-Simmons, tomo, fish, ...) parallel rails shape.
- The wide tail will alllow riding them VERY short (7') while taking off as early as longboards. Dont worry, these designs are incredible stable and paddle quite well
- The short length will allow you to use a VERY flat rocker without pearling
- The flat rocker will introduce you to the world of insane speeeeeeeed!
- Have designs with heavy tail concave(s) and the possibility to put fins quite far back for control at these insane speed (C-Drives work great), and you would never use any other board again...

With my 100kg I would just have pushed water on a havey rockered board in these conditions: (total rocker on my 6'8" is 21cm = 8")

Do the models and sizes strike anyone as being a touch heavy?

Love the legend TC.

Grenfell said..
What are the dimensions of your 6'8 Colas?

You can see both boards here: www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/Review/New-610-Simmons-SUP

6'8" (not a Simmons, rather a fish) is 29" 1/2 x 5" 1/2, one foot offs: 21" 13/16 front 22" rear, 125 liters, 21.1 cm ( 3" 5/16) total rocker