If you buy one also buy a ding repair kit. or make sure you know a repair guy. .....that is all.......
Or just be careful with your board. I've have a wide swallow tail for 4 years and never had a ding on it.
swallow tail tips definitely get dinged up...I think one of the problems is inexperienced glassers never get enough glass around the tips or sand half of it back off when they sand out the board. Once they get dinged most people don't repair them properly. I cant count how many times i've seen swallow tails with just some sun cure resin globbed into the tips trying to masquerade as a repair. round or squash tails are far easier to repair quickly and effectively.
yep...make sure your leader is attached correctly...tho, i still find the rail saver digging into the swallow
This ^ I've got a fish that has a whole new lefts side of the swallow split and since it was glasses well on the repair previous to me picking it up, it doesn't ding near as much as the other side of the tail. I find thicker swallow tail boards ding easier than those with less overall thickness. Then again, craftsmanship can certainly vary independent of chosen thickness.
true enough. escpecially if the glass is thin like others have said. Posts a dumbass comment once a month trying to be cool. Is afraid of Yankee and a bald douche. Clemson.
The swallowtail surfboard is like a high maintenance female. More care, more work, but it has its advantages when riding.
"Their formed tail helps their sublime control." [video=youtube;8z-wiJa2x-I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z-wiJa2x-I[/video]
A week or two ago when we had some stomach to chest high waves on thur or Fri. I don't surf if it's smaller that stomach high unless I'm down at the beach already. I used to drive down for anything knee high or better but after 19 years of that I had my fill. Now I surf about 20-30 times a year and only when it's good.
The Rocket Fish! Man....what a beaut! Shape got kind of lost in all of the extreme grovel...potato this...lazy that hyped shapes.
