I've never ridden any of them. Those are all too small for me. My son used to ride the Fox which is a 5'6. My father's retirement hobby is going to auctions and any time there is a surfboard he either just buys it for me or shoots me pictures so I can tell him what to bid. He has scored some really good boards for me over the years along with some other great items. His best score was a extremely clean Greg Noll Hawaiian Nollrider he picked up for $75 which I sold to a local shop at a substantial profit. In recent months he's scored a very very nice Con CC Rider from 1968 and a 9'6 triple stringer Rible noserider from 1967. $80 Rible. I plan on riding this one and may do a glass off restoration since the triple balsa stringer blank alone would cost me $285. Here is my current favorite. Here is how my father found it......with 30 years of wax and grime among the junk at an auction house. Here it is after cleaning it up. My favorite part of this board is the 13" original lexan fin which was filthy. Hiding under the filth was a nearly pristine fin. The fin is worth more than what I paid for the board. I'm about half way through doing a restoration on the Con. At some point early in its life someone tried to coat this entire board with resin. Problem is they didn't know what they were doing. They also didn't know anything about resin and used the resin you'd find at a hardware store or boat yard which has no UV protection built in. I've been carefully removing that old resin layer and hiding underneath is a board that is 10 shades whiter than what you see in the pictures above. That layer of crap resin actually preserved the color of the board underneath. If you look along the pinline in the upper left of the picture below you can get a rough idea of how brown that layer of resin was (it actually was even worse but I can't be too aggressive with the machine near the resin pin lines). Then if you look at the lower left corner you will get an idea of the color the board will be when I'm done. The board will be re-glossed and polished when I'm done. I plan on riding this one.
Funny thing about the boards in the pictures I've posted is that when I add it all up I've spent less money on these 5 boards combined than it would cost to go buy a single new shortboard in a shop.
I had a 5'6" fox in the mid 80's. That board had the sharpest nose I've ever seen! I'm sure you could have pierced somebody's torso with it!
