Hi All,

I'm looking at adding to the quiver so thought that I'd throw this one out.....

I'd be really interested to hear what your favourite shortboard ever ridden is and why? I know its different boards for different conditions, but its the board you've had the most fun on that I want to know about.

For pure fun value my elcheapo 5'9 mini simmons. Paddles like a mal and absolutely flys down the line. In average surf I get 3 times as many waves on this than any of my other boards so it takes first prize. Best board I have ridden is my Lost Double blunt

Ooo that's a hard question but I narrowed it down to two very different boards.

Toss up between my old 5'9 EPS Brooko RTQ mk 2 and the new(ish) 5'11 lost beach buggy.
I don't get to ride the mk 2 much as to really appreciate the board it has to be be super clean and steep/bowly. The beach buggy just seems to go good in everything I can throw at it so far, very very rare for a board to truly do that I reckon.

Here's the link to the updated Mk2 from Muzz bourton if anyones interested, I'll be ordering one to replace the mk in the next few months methinks.

www.bourtonshapes.com/eps-mach-3-five-finner/

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DJMWA said..
Ooo that's a hard question but I narrowed it down to two very different boards.

Toss up between my old 5'9 EPS Brooko RTQ mk 2 and the new(ish) 5'11 lost beach buggy.
I don't get to ride the mk 2 much as to really appreciate the board it has to be be super clean and steep/bowly. The beach buggy just seems to go good in everything I can throw at it so far, very very rare for a board to truly do that I reckon.

Here's the link to the updated Mk2 from Muzz bourton if anyones interested, I'll be ordering one to replace the mk in the next few months methinks.

www.bourtonshapes.com/eps-mach-3-five-finner/

I had a brooko, its was a great board.

Best ever 6,3 AB channel bottom

It used to be the HS Black Kat Futureflex 6'6" but I found the FCD range and the 6'5" Mako is just too good to be true

Two different ones....Katana Scud 6'2 quad for just about all the waves I surf

sweet potato has made this ****ty summer (see other posts??) so much fun and bearable

A secondhand katana from about 1995 that was shaped by Dave for himself, sold to another Dave who I got it off. 6'6" thin, rockered and narrow. Can't paddle it, but that thing still surfs so good when I pull it out of the rafters and take it to a suck rock wave.

And a 5'10 double flyer, six channel Precision Equip twin fin made in 2001 for my 30th. It was a copy of a 1981 Murray Smith with modern rails. Surfed it from knee high to three times overhead (and I am 6'2").

Both boards - plant that back foot and HACK. Power boys, it's all about power. None of this fairial rubbish for me.

My home made vanguard knock off...not blow my own trumpet but everytime I ride this thing it blows my mind

Back in the day a 6'7"x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2. channeled bottom thruster Mocean, Shaped in Lorne Vicco.

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Tux said..
My home made vanguard knock off...not blow my own trumpet but everytime I ride this thing it blows my mind

Tux you should try it with wax, you'll get even more enjoyment i'd recon

Sadly still yet to get a nice day to try mine

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jbshack said..

Tux said..
My home made vanguard knock off...not blow my own trumpet but everytime I ride this thing it blows my mind

Tux you should try it with wax, you'll get even more enjoyment i'd recon

Sadly still yet to get a nice day to try mine

Mate a couple of sundays ago where I was would have been perfect for it now that I think of it, you know where

5"10 Sam Egan. Was just one of those magic boards

6'4" Greg Laurenson thruster 1987 model had a small swallow tail, had been in training for a 12 month trip to Mexico / South America and days before leaving I snapped my chosen board to take away (at Lefthanders of all places). WTF so jumped out of the water drove straight to Margaret's surf shop (Beach Life) walked in and there she was gleaming in the surf rack saying buy me.

It was love at 1st sight

A man could not have asked for a better travelling soul mate we surfed and survived heaving mega death pits in Mexico / Peru. Travelling down the coast on Mexico one place saw 30 boards snapped in 2 weeks some how my 6'4" stayed together.

Never let me down a tube was never to deep, no matter what size no matter how late we always charged.

Fought through many bus and train trips / stations full of pick pockets and thieves in Columbia and Peru the board was really useful fending people off any way anyone who has been overland on the trip knows the story.

Was back in WA a few months and snapped her at North Point

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IFocus said..

6'4" Greg Laurenson thruster 1987 model had a small swallow tail, had been in training for a 12 month trip to Mexico / South America and days before leaving I snapped my chosen board to take away (at Lefthanders of all places). WTF so jumped out of the water drove straight to Margaret's surf shop (Beach Life) walked in and there she was gleaming in the surf rack saying buy me.

It was love at 1st sight

A man could not have asked for a better travelling soul mate we surfed and survived heaving mega death pits in Mexico / Peru. Travelling down the coast on Mexico one place saw 30 boards snapped in 2 weeks some how my 6'4" stayed together.

Never let me down a tube was never to deep, no matter what size no matter how late we always charged.

Fought through many bus and train trips / stations full of pick pockets and thieves in Columbia and Peru the board was really useful fending people off any way anyone who has been overland on the trip knows the story.

Was back in WA a few months and snapped her at North Point

Great story

Great thread. one of my favourites is retired and leans in a corner.
its a 6'8" Pascoe Hopper single fin, which Mick Hopper had made for himself, but parted with it because he didn't have time to build me a board for my first trip to Bali in 1980. Trip was and remains an all time blast. The place was so laid back, had to walk into Ulu from the main road. The boards bottom has compressions from hitting against the muffler (no board bags just a rope strap tied nose and tail hung over your shoulder).
we surfed uncrowded, solid but not massive conditions. Nusa Lembongam was a mission, accommodation was with local families who had spare rooms.
Only had the one board it never let me down, funniest thing the fin the faster it goes the louder it sounds wwwwooooooo pull in the echo is wild.