Look forward to seeing it in the flesh and in action with Lacey getting a wiggle on

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Ted the Kiwi said..

Hey LL have you ever surfed a 666 that is short but designed on longboard nose riding principles? One of the blokes down this way who surfs well is having one made at the moment - I saw the shaped blank and its looks very nice. Will be interesting to see how it goes.

sdr is going to do some longboard style 666's. people have been pestering him and he has succumbed.


how ever he is thinking no less then 9'6 ish atm.



ted i would be more interested in doing a say 8 ft or a bit smaller 666 nano type board to be honest- get the volume in there with the nose and tail but keep it thin would be hot



oh btw the 8'10 was wicked with the laird quadies even in crap small waves

There are a few people doing Tommo style 666's now based off the Vanguard - can only imagine it will not be long to see a Nano

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Ted the Kiwi said..

There are a few people doing Tommo style 666's now based off the Vanguard - can only imagine it will not be long to see a Nano

simon from 'deep' looks to have nailed the vangard type

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Macaha said..

**** Easter really ted worked a good part of it managed a couple of surfs with Lacey fried two lap tops so this phone login is crap sadly

Oops meant to quote Ted.
6'2" with same (near enough) volume as the potatonator.
The potatotanator was on of my all time favourites and the nano so far has shown that it will handle a sizier wave much better.
When you ride it in waves with some push that run into deeper water you can really understand why its called a modern planing hull.
It's got the great planing feel of the potato family with the added bonus of being able to bury rails at speed on decent sized waves.
Had a few surfs on a 6' vanguard that was great in 3-4' beachbreaks but somewhat un-forgiving when I was tired and in amongst the crowds at my local point.

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Cuttlefish said..

Macaha said..

**** Easter really ted worked a good part of it managed a couple of surfs with Lacey fried two lap tops so this phone login is crap sadly

Oops meant to quote Ted.
6'2" with same (near enough) volume as the potatonator.
The potatotanator was on of my all time favourites and the nano so far has shown that it will handle a sizier wave much better.
When you ride it in waves with some push that run into deeper water you can really understand why its called a modern planing hull.
It's got the great planing feel of the potato family with the added bonus of being able to bury rails at speed on decent sized waves.
Had a few surfs on a 6' vanguard that was great in 3-4' beachbreaks but somewhat un-forgiving when I was tired and in amongst the crowds at my local point.

may i be so rude to ask what you weight.


i would like to go 6'2 because i just like that length of board and have surfed them forever, but that volume is getting right up there in the nano models

Hover around 92-94 kgs.
The 6'2" nano floats me at bottom rib sitting with board level in the water.
The 6' vanguard is 39.5 litres and floated me a tad lower. The 6' nano is almost the same litreage as the 6' vanguard but feels like it has less volume under the arm.
I went 6'2" for that little bit more ease of paddling around the line up, wave catching and forgiveness at the expense of more responsiveness.

Thanks cuttlefish for that.

LL I have a 6'2" Potatonator - similar volume to the Nano at that length and I am way way heavier than you and more than Cuttlefish and I find it has loads more volume than I need. In fact I am looking to swap it for a 6'0" this week if all goes well - have a side deal on the go I rode the 6'2" in solid 6ft stuff most of the w/e and I was really surprised how it went. It really is an amazing board. It also goes ok in the smaller stuff - nothing on the Sweet Potato in 1-2ft but 2-3 its great fun. I am super impressed with this board. I ride some big fins in it as it has a big tail on it - but the way the edges on the rails are at the back 1/3 of the board means you can really get it to bite on the bigger days. Somehow it just really holds its line. It freaks me out. Initially I thought it would be great up to 4 foot maybe a touch more but after gently taking it in bigger and bigger sessions over the last 3 weeks of swell I have no doubts about its ability when its bigger. Its no rocket ship and not the most fun board I have ever ridden (the sweet potato is) but in terms of a great board with loads of wave range it covers probably 90% of my surf days. So as a one board quiver option it pretty much ticks all the boxes in my opinion. People say the nano is even better. God help me when I finally get my hands on one If I get to Manly this week I will finally get to see one. Otherwise it will be next week.

Cuttle - how do you think that Nano performs on the 2ft days?

thx's lads. as i said its not im worried about floating, i just like that length of board.

compromise is 6 ft. it wouldn't be all that bad to have that bit extra if i go to say fun inside alley but a crowd is out there

Only had one 2' surf on it so far and was thinking while I was out there I could have been surfing my baked potato or 7'6" vquad.
That's only one surf though and the tide was filling up most of the waves and this is where the baked/sweet potatoes are in their element or a longer board for gliding through.
If it was a nice zippy 2' low tide bank then I believe it would be happy days.
A year or so back I had sweet potato and potatonator and everything sub 5' was completely covered.
Now it's baked potato, nano, vquad for everything sub 8'.
Wonder what 8' looks like again?


Edit: here's a guy talking about the difference inbetween a vanguard and a nano,
"I would say for sure you could ride the Tomo MPH at a lower volume than almost any other board. Even between the Nano and the VG the entry rocker on the Nano big time noticeable,. Plus the Nano has no real concave until about the last 1/2 for the board where it is about 2 or 3mm deep.The concave on VG runs down most of the board making the board lift really quick.

My 5'6" VG feels much bigger than my 5'5" Nano riding, paddling, walking in the wind lol. I would say if you went a bit larger with the Nano it would still work well, if you go to big with the VG it will have way to much drive vs being able to whip it in turns quickly. If we were racing NASCAR we would be talking understeer vs oversteer."