Hot enough as a matter of fact to get me back into my wet, sandy, thrown into the back of my pickup, wetsuit after I had just crawled out of it. You should know that I own four different fullsuits that I keep in rotation just so that I never have to crawl into a cold, clammy one. That board called to me though, and I had to answer- so I sucked it up and wiggled my way back into that dank suit.
Stu and I ended up paddling down the beach for a little surf. In this new board, Stu's redistributed the foam, rethought the rails and rocker and added a couple of bumps down the rail to loosen it all up. The final product is a board that's really stable yet infinitely surfable.
This board was a 10'4, I'd like to see it in a 10' version and I'd like to see it in some open face surf. I snagged three waves on our little coastal cruise (I'd already been in the water three hours so I only had a little time) but each one of them told me a little more about the board. The board in a quad version surfs fast- I call it built in speed. It's got squirt. Unfortunately, the tide was sucking out and the waves were mostly closeouts so I wasn't able to wrap any cutties or throw it up into the lip- but I was dying to!
When I get a chance you'll hear about it.
5 comments:
How does the quad fin setup feel?
downwinder? huh? whats that all about?
NATE I FEEL QUAD IS THE ONLY WAY TO GO.BEEN ON 4 FINS FOR 8 YEARS.MY 11'6"SUP IS A Q VERY FAST AND DRAWS A BETTER LINE.JUST MY THOUGHT OTHERS MIGHT SHARETHE SAME.JOHN BLANK IS ORDER CUT BY NEXT WEEK.GOOD TIME TO GET NEW RIG.SURF INDUST.IS SLOW AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.CAPTNEG9
Hey Cptn. Neg9:
Your typing's getting better, is there something wrong? Always dig the all caps feels like you're yelling at me.
Can't wait to see the new one- you're going to have to take me to where you're getting all this stuff done sometime- it sounds kind of interesting...
Looks like we'll be waiting for some clean water again. Bummer.
John
Hey Nate-
Honestly, I don't think I've given a quad a fair test in some really good, open face surf.
My friend Kiwi has ridden his in some head high to a couple of feet overhead surf and it seems to go pretty darn fast. In fact, that's the impression I get about quads- they really have that speedy feeling to them.
My buddy Capt. Neg9 digs his and he goes really good on his big old white board- once again, built in speed.
We've got quads popping up all over the place over here so I should be able to get you some better data once I can fairly evaluate them.
Other then that I'm digging my 2+1 setup right now- I've found a weird combo of fins that works. More on that later....
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