[video=vimeo;201372007]https://vimeo.com/201372007[/video] I have a biscuit like shape from a local guy in a quad. It's thick and got really full rails. It's great for weaker mushier sloppier waves of all sizes. Kinda stinks once it gets a little heavier and starts to throw I think it's because of the rail. Really hard to get vertical and it's sucks in the barrel. I can see the bonzer bottom being a big help to make the board I have work better in those conditions. I wish mine just had the five fin option.
I love my bonzer. Was wondering about this board. I lime the fact that MC was involved. He's got the bonzer down to a science over the years. Some try and pull it off and they may work. But MC is on a diffrent level. Pretty cool to see a big shaper like CI working with the campbells
A real Bonzer is fun on that very special clean and easy to ride day but they want a very lateral line on a wave. Fast on a long section like C-street on a good day. Good luck getting tight adjustment snaps and forget getting vertical. Simon Anderson took the 3 fins and put them right where they needed to be (all under the back foot) on a outline that is more tail oriented, pointed them in the right direction for hard & tight turns, canted them right for some lift and shaped them right for release on a high top turn (<<the key the bonzer doesn't do well). Can the bonzer & get a well thought out thruster with the right float, width, length and bottom curve for you and your goals to get a great all around cue. If you like the Biscuit thing then have a thruster made with similar volume, width and so on but don't make the nose wider than the tail- puts you too far forward too often and you have to step back a lot (unless that is what you want). Bonzers have their place (never again in my quiver) as a novelty and not a go to. MHO not meant to offend any cult followers w/ apologies offered for the rant.
Your not wrong. A bonzer isn't a thruster. Although your assessment is a little harsh. Bonzer isn't a shape, it's the fin set up with bottom contours. Can be put on any board. But even with that being said bonzers are not thrusters. But anything that isn't a thruster...isn't a thruster. I like my bonzer on big slow rolling days. Lots of power but not throwing barrels. The speed and acceleration you get through turns is unreal. Thrusters can't even get close to a bonzer in that respect. Definitely not a go to board though. My bonzer is a bit of a semi gun. 6'6 shelter bonzer. I'm curious how the bonzer would feel on a board smaller like my standard SB...which is like the biscuit but with some tweaks for a more performancey board. Still wouldn't expect it to be like a thruster, but I'm sure it would pull off tighter turns. I know there pros and we are mere mortals. But Knox and others have ridden bonzers and can get tight snappy turns.
