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thedrip said..MickPC said...oOps just ordered a new board, couldn't resist the sale price on a drifter I'd had my eye on for the last 12 months.
Should be a fun board for my local fat waves
ECS? Should be a great board. That sort of outline and bottom has been one of my go to boards for the last two years. What size?
Yes mate, couldn't resist $500 delivered for the eflex rapidfire kinda build...choosing the size was bloody hard. I thought about it for a couple of days.
I was always going to get the 6'10, but have since decided on setting 2 boards up with Smithy's shark repela. One good days board & one smaller days board (my whalebone)...so the 6'10 wouldn't have given wide enough wave coverage. So looked at shorter, was really considering all sizes. 6'10 would be great for extra glide, the 6'6 is super wide & actually higher volume than the 6'10 but I would have opted for the 6'10 out of those 2.
So was looking at the 5'10 & 6'2 which are also very similar in volume. 5'10 was tempting & luckily it was the size sold out when I decided to go with the 6'2. 6'2 feels like the best size for my stance on wide nosed boards....really excited, board should be good at my local. Just gotta work out if I'm going to reshape a centre fin to go 2 + 1 or go quad. I'm thinking probably 2 + 1. I met a guy out at Mids 1 the other year surfing a 5'10 board like this in triple overhead & going off on it. Much better surfer than me but looking forward to seeing how it goes in big steep waves too