I don't know what it is. I think that it's probably too gunnie to be called a fun gun, yet not really a full on gun for massive waves.
I went and saw it and spoke with Mark. He had tweaked the rocker and profile since the we designed it on the computer. Hearing his thoughts on the rocker was really interesting and I found out he worked with Al Byrne. Not a bad bloke to learn from hey? My three (including this one as yet unglassed) most recent custom jobs off him have all looked really quite flat - mates have often looked at them dubiously - but they have been surprisingly forgiving and performed superbly in late drops (and mates have agreed upon surfing them).
The board is 3 1/4" thick, but the rails are still pretty sensitive and I should have no problem burying them. Similarly, he has removed a heap of volume down towards the tail. When he tweaked the outline he pulled in the tail a bit and lost a more just back from center where he felt the rail line was too parallel.
The rolled vee in the tail looks sick and should be quite forgiving. Occassionally, on big drops at one of my local bombies, the transition to a backhand bottom turn on the 8' board was quite abrupt and I wanted to smooth that out a little - it would sort of flop onto rail sometimes. The rolled vee surprised me how far up the board it went.
The nose still carries a fair bit of volume both in thickness and width. Wide point is 5" forward of center. It should paddle very very well. The vee in the nose I've never had before so it will be good to see if it really does cut through the ribs and chop so common on solid waves (be it wind, current or the previous wave).
We discussed a heavier glass job, but Mark was pretty confident 6x6x6 with wide laps and the thickness and triple stringers should be okay. He reckons he doesn't have many of his longboards snap and guys do surf them at very solid Yallingup so that was enough of a recommendation for me. Fingers crossed.
The tail pic was meant to show how fine the tail and it's rail is but it sort of doesn't work real well.
The second one was meant to show its length and profile, but trying to fit it in was tricky so there is a bit of compression in the perspective.
cut a peanut into it then you be able to turn
