Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Extended Christmas: New boards!

Santa's glasser elves came through! Check out these freshies!

Top two photos:
My new Mahi... The Piranha...a purpose built carve-beast. Can't wait to get it in the water. 10' x 29" x (too radical to talk about)! I'll say it again- if you go custom and you go with the right guy, you can get a board made for what you want to do- and for me, that's carve turns like a Ginsu through a ham hock. Are you ready? Give Stamps a call!

Bottom two photos: Joe P.'s new stand up board. Joe's been paddling for about a week now and I can tell he's a terminal case. I pulled a stalker move and watched him paddling at his own private spot (you know that I know, Joe), the guy's a natural. Paddled straight out and slid into a little reform- third time paddling. Guys like this are going to make us all look stupid.

Finally: Camera Grom is at it again. The kid is motivated, loves making videos and knows how to put them together. Check out his latest clip, taken just this morning- in what was almost nothing surf. If you see him, hook him up!



2 comments:

CB1 said...

Nice ride! Will this replace anything in your current quiver or are you just extending it? Is it too top secret to tell us about the bottom shape? :-) Can't wait to hear your report.

John Ashley said...

Hey cb1:

Not too secret. Tim made this one a bit racier- some vee leading into double concave into and through the fins.

A little trade off in stability with downsize and increased vee but the board does feel livelier. More data points to be logged and it'll take a couple of weeks to get her figured out but so far- I'm really excited about where the Mahi's come. Keeping it at 29" was important- tough to find any molded boards at 10' with 29" gut.

I'll keep you posted!