Just got the go ahead to order a new stick....something which I haven't done for at least the last 3 years (not counting the Brewer)....hopefully I will be catching up with Greg Brown next week and ordering a new gun:

8'0 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 or something like that

2 + 1 me thinks

Made for lots of fast paddling into lots of big waves veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery early


I'm kinda excited

Sounds awesome.

Excitement levels? Extreme I am sure.

I have my recent 8' and 9'6" 2+1. Love them. Getting in early is good. Great. Makes it easy. Yeeeewww!

I got hurt because I didn't have the eight footer and was sitting further in as a result. Tell her it's a safety issue too.

Stoked for you.

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thedrip said..
Tell her it's a safety issue too
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PMSL

Now Tux as you well know the colour scheme is much more important than the shape in the Greenroom once you get over 8 foot. Any thoughts?

The new board will be a lot wider than that lovely yellow board in your entrance way .

Red bro....all over red..hopefully something like the below depending of total maximum fund allocation

Bells whip

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Tux said..
Just got the go ahead to order a new stick....something which I haven't done for at least the last 3 years (not counting the Brewer)....hopefully I will be catching up with Greg Brown next week and ordering a new gun:

8'0 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 or something like that

2 + 1 me thinks

Made for lots of fast paddling into lots of big waves veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery early


I'm kinda excited

Why not use the Brewer? Or is that a pool room board?

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DARTH said..

Tux said..
Just got the go ahead to order a new stick....something which I haven't done for at least the last 3 years (not counting the Brewer)....hopefully I will be catching up with Greg Brown next week and ordering a new gun:

8'0 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 or something like that

2 + 1 me thinks

Made for lots of fast paddling into lots of big waves veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery early


I'm kinda excited

Why not use the Brewer? Or is that a pool room board?

To narrow for down here...if I surfed in shorts it would be great..That and my wife would kill me if anything happened to it

Just remember that red can go wrong

www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/What-should-I-call-it-lipstick-ros-pinkie-or

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Tux said..

DARTH said..

Tux said..
Just got the go ahead to order a new stick....something which I haven't done for at least the last 3 years (not counting the Brewer)....hopefully I will be catching up with Greg Brown next week and ordering a new gun:

8'0 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 or something like that

2 + 1 me thinks

Made for lots of fast paddling into lots of big waves veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery early


I'm kinda excited

Why not use the Brewer? Or is that a pool room board?

To narrow for down here...if I surfed in shorts it would be great..That and my wife would kill me if anything happened to it

So pool room then, was it brand new(custom)rack or second hand? what were the dims?

Doggie - I have had the pleasure of seeing this piece of machinery in the flesh. It's absolutely amazing. It's very narrow and has loads of rocker - but then longer boards do appear to. It's a full on weapon - one I imagine that is built for nice clean conditions as opposed to big Vico swells the majority of the time. However - just owning that thing means you have huge Nads - as you have to ride it eventually personally I could not imagine a day where I would ride that board in waves that it was meant for. Tux has much bigger Nads than me.

How big do they need to be to need this thing then..




9'6 if I remember correctly.

If someone asked when I was taking the photo if i surfed I reckon I would have said no..

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SP said..
How big do they need to be to need this thing then..

9'6 if I remember correctly.

Huge then - as that is bigger than Tux's Not that size doesn't matter when you get that big. Unless you are Drip or Tux the rest of us mere mortals are just happy to watch. Well I am anyway. Thats a lovely looking board SP. Hard to shoot them though when they are that big - you did a great job.

Yeah that is about the limit
Think this one was 12.. Had to go diagonal.

Absolute board porn..
About $5k if you are looking for a wall hanger.





Ps if someone wants to crop and straighten that would be good..

Wow....I entered this thread by mistake. I will leave through the I'm scared exit

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DARTH said..

Tux said..

DARTH said..

Tux said..
Just got the go ahead to order a new stick....something which I haven't done for at least the last 3 years (not counting the Brewer)....hopefully I will be catching up with Greg Brown next week and ordering a new gun:

8'0 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 or something like that

2 + 1 me thinks

Made for lots of fast paddling into lots of big waves veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery early


I'm kinda excited

Why not use the Brewer? Or is that a pool room board?

To narrow for down here...if I surfed in shorts it would be great..That and my wife would kill me if anything happened to it

So pool room then, was it brand new(custom)rack or second hand? what were the dims?

Its 8'6 x 19 1/2 x 3 1/4 off the top of my head...like ted said its got quite a bit of rocker...I got it second hand but it still cost a bomb....I reckon it would go great at Ulu's or somewhere like that...

I'm after something with a bit more width forward less about performance and more about survival

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SP said..
How big do they need to be to need this thing then..

9'6 if I remember correctly.

Huge then - as that is bigger than Tux's Not that size doesn't matter when you get that big. Unless you are Drip or Tux the rest of us mere mortals are just happy to watch. Well I am anyway. Thats a lovely looking board SP. Hard to shoot them though when they are that big - you did a great job.

You have me all wrong. I have big boards because I have small nads. It's all about survival for me too. 10 foot is about it. I have mates who reach for their 7'2" when it reaches 10' and surf a 6'2"-6'4" up until then (I am thinking of a couple of guys in particular. Plus I start getting real fussy about which waves I surf when it's over 6'. Big channels are a necessity. So no big North Point, Womb etc. I'm after waves I don't have to get barrelled on. Some of the open ocean things may have more power, but they aren't as top to bottom.

So small nads.

Sometimes I like to think I surf them because I am more intelligent and have the right equipment too.

But then I remember that those blokes surf better than me in all conditions.

So small nads AND useless.

Exactly

Survival first
Survival second
Survival third

...although when I get to the pub afterwards I was definatly ripping it up

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Tux said..

DARTH said..

Tux said..

DARTH said..

Tux said..
Just got the go ahead to order a new stick....something which I haven't done for at least the last 3 years (not counting the Brewer)....hopefully I will be catching up with Greg Brown next week and ordering a new gun:

8'0 x 21 1/4 x 3 1/8 or something like that

2 + 1 me thinks

Made for lots of fast paddling into lots of big waves veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery early


I'm kinda excited

Why not use the Brewer? Or is that a pool room board?

To narrow for down here...if I surfed in shorts it would be great..That and my wife would kill me if anything happened to it

So pool room then, was it brand new(custom)rack or second hand? what were the dims?

Its 8'6 x 19 1/2 x 3 1/4 off the top of my head...like ted said its got quite a bit of rocker...I got it second hand but it still cost a bomb....I reckon it would go great at Ulu's or somewhere like that...

I'm after something with a bit more width forward less about performance and more about survival

19 1/2 is narrow for a board like that I guess, must have a heap of volume.

Darth yeah I would say it is reasonably but a lot of guns sit around that mark...most of the ones I've seen in the last few years sit somewhere between 19 and 21 inches thick....its not like the 90's when I had a 7'6 x 18 1/2 and everyone used to call it the boat

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Darth yeah I would say it is reasonably but a lot of guns sit around that mark...most of the ones I've seen in the last few years sit somewhere between 19 and 21 inches thick....its not like the 90's when I had a 7'6 x 18 1/2 and everyone used to call it the boat

Have you got any pics of the fins?

Cheers

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Tux said..
Darth yeah I would say it is reasonably but a lot of guns sit around that mark...most of the ones I've seen in the last few years sit somewhere between 19 and 21 inches thick....its not like the 90's when I had a 7'6 x 18 1/2 and everyone used to call it the boat

Have you got any pics of the fins?

Cheers

Fins and Dims....fins are big...probably just shy of being the same size as the FCS MR-TFX

^ nice love glassed in fins

Stunning glasswork!

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DARTH said..
^ nice love glassed in fins

Stunning glasswork!

Say what you like about jetstar even they couldn't get through 50ft of bubble wrap, 6 pool noodles, 1 cardboard box and 2 board bags

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Tux said..

DARTH said..
^ nice love glassed in fins

Stunning glasswork!

Say what you like about jetstar even they couldn't get through 50ft of bubble wrap, 6 pool noodles, 1 cardboard box and 2 board bags

Just no commitment in that job anymore

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Tux said..

DARTH said..
^ nice love glassed in fins

Stunning glasswork!

Say what you like about jetstar even they couldn't get through 50ft of bubble wrap, 6 pool noodles, 1 cardboard box and 2 board bags

Thats was just a gamble and you obviously won..

My boards made it over and back with minimal damage but the twit at Perth airport coming home, rolled out the trolley with all the bulky luggage sitting on top my two boards needless to say after a virtual non stop flights all the way home, he copped an ear full

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jbshack said..

Tux said..

DARTH said..
^ nice love glassed in fins

Stunning glasswork!

Say what you like about jetstar even they couldn't get through 50ft of bubble wrap, 6 pool noodles, 1 cardboard box and 2 board bags

Thats was just a gamble and you obviously won..

My boards made it over and back with minimal damage but the twit at Perth airport coming home, rolled out the trolley with all the bulky luggage sitting on top my two boards needless to say after a virtual non stop flights all the way home, he copped an ear full

Grumpy tourist lol

ETA? Will it be in time for winter's juice?

Yeah not sure bro...Browny seemed pretty pumped and was talking about getting started today...so hopefully not too long but if we get a good run of surf before August all bets are off I reckon but hopefully late this month early next month

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Yeah not sure bro...Browny seemed pretty pumped and was talking about getting started today...so hopefully not too long but if we get a good run of surf before August all bets are off I reckon but hopefully late this month early next month

Stinking surfing shapers - he needs to get his priorities right.

Glassed just waiting for it to be sanded wet n dry and pro finished

Lovely looking outline and one hell of a stringer by the looks of it. Nice work - bet you are excited