Thought I might do a Phoenix on this puppy ......







every now and again it's good to step outside the square...the knife is outside the square...it has a heap of little design concepts that I have used over the past 40 years of shaping all rolled into one...bottom is bowled in the nose, running to a heavy concave with heavy chine off the tail....the blades are placed along the peak of the chine...rails are high to low and pinched, so the board really does have a blade feel to it,


I have been riding it for a month in all kinds of conditions with all kinds of fins....it's no break through design...but it is super fun to ride...where it does shine is when it is ridden finless...where it just could be a design leap...the blades are giving a very stable ride...as they follow the curve of the planshape they curve in towards the tail...water has nowhere to go but down thus forming lift and stability...so even without the centre fin it is stable and easy to control and will release only when you force it...then it slides like crazy and does all that fun stuff that finless is,



so with it's fine rail...hard edge through the tail and blades along the bottom it was always going to knife through the water....I thought it would end up with the tag..."carving knife" but with it's multiple personalities...it will be dubbed "the swiss army knife"



"7'8"x 21"x 2 3/4"......6 + 6 + 4 tobacco road tint.

That's a absolute cracker mate !!!!!!