Very nice well done

Great looking ride mate!
That's going to be one loooooooong week.

Macaha said..
Very nice well done

Mac could well be commenting on the grass, which looks nicely kept...the board looks great too

woohooo

Nice one bro

Nice board . I really like the colours . Go sharkies

OK, Took her out on her maiden voyage this morning. Was very nice. Loved the extra volume. Picked up 2 maybe 2 1/2 foot "A" frame style wave with ease. I did notice when I took off at an angle that the board tended to slide sideways a little. Maybe that has something to do wiuth the extra length/volume than my other boards. Turned really easy too. I asked for a little extra tail rocker, so combined with the pin tail when I stood on the back the nose popped up and she did round house cutbacks easy. Size of the waves helped too.
Out of say.....15 waves in a 2 hour session I never caught a rail. Best of all, all the extra glass on the deck (2 x 6oz + 4oz Patch) payed off as there was no heal dents (thats my pet hate).
So stoked it handled so well for a big board.

I've also notice that problem of the rear end in big boards wanting to swap with the front if you angle your take off too much. I put it down to a larger surface area of the fins, but I have zero proof of that, it's just a guess on my part.

thePup said..
Keep shoving them fins in ----- the right one will appear have you tried moving the fin in the box a touch mate

Na, have not touched the fin. Its a 8" glass fin with very small side bites. Just felt odd when the back slides out a tad, just until you get some speed up. I will slip it up a bit a see how that goes.

Yeah, will do. I guess this is what it means when they say "its loose in the back end"?

chrispy said...
You need to also keep more weight on the back foot and alot of the problem will go. I am assuming here, you are frothing on that a-frame so you paddle on a angle to stop you frome nose diving. Also when you take off on a longboard your back foot is not near the final,so when you pop up in the middle of the board all frothing you go into a lean in which then puts all your weight on the front foot (good for fin first take offs and helicopters). Which will then put the final higher up but more importantly takes the pressure off the rail.

Am I right?

And with a two and 1 you should have no issues

Also moving the fin will not help . Moving it forward will make it looser and moving it back will give it more drive which will lead to longer arcs in your turns

Thanks cats, Surf was a bit smaller today but the feet position on take off seems to have fixed the problem. The extra couple of inches of board feels like i got an entrire football feild to walk around on now.

Sandsy1 said...
That is one very nice board. It will do everything you want. Enjoy!!!

I have to agree..my very nice

wow, great photo. where is this? NSW?

Looks like fun. I'd expect more of a crowd in Newcastle.