Yeah it looks pretty sweet...I'll get down and pick it up next week!
just gotta get the fin worked out.....maybe a 6.5 Greenough in an Amber colour?
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You guys like your fins little! How far up are you setting these little foils?
Meantime, first minute of this video is worth watching. Joel Tudor riding a pretty chunky looking single fin mid in some supernice looking waves.
That C-Bucket looks sick! Always wanted to get a custom done in matte green/olive.
I've tried a few fins in my 7'0 Flat Tracker and the 7" 4a is definitely the pick??
I reckon you'd want a stiffer bigger fin for sumatra. A half or inch bigger then what you use here.
In both c buckets I've had I used a 7.5 or 8 Christenson or a Tudor 8.5.
Don't think they make the Christenson anymore. Think it is a different template.
The 7.5 McCallum single looks good.
If it gets bigger and I'm on a single I'll go up to a 9 or 10 pushed right up in the box.
Depends if you want it to be pivoty or draw your turns out. Small upright back it the box for pivot, bigger more rake up in the box for draw out your turns.
Rule of thumb is lay the fin flat and slide it up till 1/3rd of the tip is over the rail amd that should be pretty close to the right spot.
Enjoy the board they are great and will love indo waves.
Agreed - Fin preferences are very subjective. We all surf differently and what feels right for one person might feel so wrong for another, even on the same board. All to do with how we ride, how we weight our feet, where we stand...
I reckon the converse is true too - That a certain setup encourages a certain way of riding. An extreme example being the classic Liddle Hull, or at the other end of the spectrum a typical thruster.
I've got one of those super narrow Liddle flex fins, 9" deep but not much area. Stick that fella in and put it at the front of the box and you'd better be using your rail or you're going to eat it every time. I don't ride with this fin very often but it's good to use it from time to time as a reminder.
I'm still intrigued by reading about your little fins though so I put a 7" one in the day before yesterday, nice waves, head high offshore, bit of a tendency to closeout but a few that ran through... Meh. I guess I'd have to ride with that setup for a good few sessions to really feel it out. However when I headed out this morning I switched back to my usual 9" fin.
Again I was only commenting on the Flat Tracker as I've had other mids and used bigger fins that worked great. FT just rode terribly with anything bigger. I tried a 8.5" L-Flex that True-Ames suggested and it felt as if I was towing an anchor but that particular fin worked great in my 6'10 South Coast Egg.
Picked up the CBucket this arvo.
Stoked with the finish and the pigment tint I asked him to match was spot on!
ill get afew waves and take some decent pics in the next few days!
Some real nice clips from Torren Martyns new film, keen to watch this when it comes out...
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Question,
I'm strictly a Poly/PU guy when it comes to materials, I like the feel and flex pattern and prefer heavier boards as they maintain better momentum and glide for me...
But then you can glass Epoxy/EPS heavier from what I have heard and it has better lamination and toughness for durability...
And you can Poly glass an EPS blank which is stiffer/more durable and apparently more eco...
So, what are you're preferences and ideals?
Am I right in my above assumptions?
Let me know you're thoughts... cheers
The other option is epoxy/bio resins over poly which Gary McNeill uses. Excellent durability while maintaining poly feel.
So we were treated to some pretty good waves to break in the new C Bucket.
Friday arvo I went fin shopping and ended up with a 7.5 Captain Fin. Was a toss up between this and the brothers Marshall....but in the end this Ellis Erickson 7.5 just felt the best in the hand. Stiffer and more upright than the Brothers Marshall but I think the right choice.
sat morning was 1to two foot...clean with a little offshore. Waxed it up and paddled out was pleasantly surprised how well it paddled...especially coming of my 11fter!
Anyways first wave was a fast left that i took off latish on...by the time I had negotiated the drop I was forced to bottom turned out on the flats and the board drove and projected off the flats and back to the pocket...was nice to feel that pep and drive.
Got a couple more rights and was just trimming and feeling out what I could.
then snagged a right set wave that walled all the way to the beach...was mid to 3/4 of the way forward of the board and the speed and trim was sweet. A couple of fade turns off the top and a floater to finish.
So was buzzing and keen for another crack in the morning.
Sunday(today)we got a solid pulse of swell over night and arrived at my fav right reef and it was pretty sic. Solid 4 foot... glassy and bloody good.
i couldn't help it...so took the 11ft Glider out. I sat wide and and snagged some solid set waves...man I tell u that Chris Craft isn't just for 1 foot waves!
Anyway after filling my boots on the 11 footer I ran back to get the C Bucket.
im **** at ride reports but the board goes unreal...it's fast, paddles good and trims like a small Glider.
There was abit of juice this morning and it handled it and confirmed it could probably do the same in anything you dared paddle out in....fin felt like a good match but I'm sure I'll play with that over time.
so yeah the C Bucket for me lived up to the hype.
Will do a post honey moon period review too....never heard anyone say their new board was rubbish !
Was checking out the discussion as yesterday was sup surfing and broke my paddle so grabbed a 9ft and surfed that.
On the sup was hunting the bombs but the surfboard felt awesome on the wave.
Saltyheaven, used to build epoxy sandwich windsurf boards and helped a polyester laminater build some epoxy surfboards that Ratso shaped. At this stage I didn't surf but they said different floaty feel and made the next few thinner.
From memory no stringer,3mm PVC bottom and cormat deck with 6oz so they were strong but still light.
Flex is hard to measure but had a windsurf waveboard PVC sandwich with s glass and so nice to bottom turn in smaller waves.
My next waveboard was glassed with kevlar (to bounce of Taranaki rocks) and a few design changes but stiffer in smaller waves but awesome in bigger waves.
After yesterday I'm getting my Starboard 8'4" wood surfboard out this afternoon
And speaking of Ryan, got smoked trying to buy Ryan's old VBowls, said i'd take it and the dude sold her on me... so gutted... happens though
Bummer Andy.
Macaha, love that board, 7'6 Disco right? I'm pretty taken with the outline but it always seemed too pinny to be much good in normal waves. However I recently overlaid my old 7'2 travel board over the Disco outline for interest and discovered they are a lot more similar than different. Rockers are in the same ballpark too.
I wonder if the Disco with the fin way forward and my 7'2 with the fin way back might start to feel kind of similar....