Feedback on new ...Lost shapes?

Did you like the Fling? Was watching a video the other day... Looked fun, but more for a long West coast wave, not a three turns to the beach EC wave. Your thoughts?

Also have a down payment on a Bottom Feeder in the Black Dart technology. Seemed like the Bottom Feeder was slightly better in the paddling dept. than the Puddle Jumper or RV so thats why I went with it.

 

i cant justify buying boards that are so expensive that i need to put a down payment. many good shapers around here can get the job done for 2/3 the cost, not to mention the put on glass thick enough for the board to last more than a season or two.

Im always fixing my friend's merricks, ...losts, js. They pay all that money for a brand name board with paper thin glass. I try to explain to 'em how those board are made for a completely different wave than we get, except for maybe a handful of days out of the year

Don't get me wrong, off the shelf shapes feel great, but $700+ great? ...not so much.

 

The puddle jumper looks fun! Short and lots of volume

 

That bean bag model is looking pretty cool too. Agreed that the price on these boards is insane and the glass not all that durable too. Having said that I have more luck with the bigger name brands than the small time shaper. I've had four boards customed from various local/small label shapers and none really did it for me, I think super sharp eye solid etc are good brands for good shapes that aren't outrageously priced

 

Any board brand that has to have names like puddle jumper, disco, fishy eyes, dumpster diver, potato whatever.....must really be ****ty boards. Fancy names to divert your attention from the abject lack of quality.
I would not buy one for all the tea in china.
just opinion, but I would go see a local shaper to make you a board YOU mentally shape; put it on paper and have a shaper make it come to reality.

 

I agree you can get better boards and at better prices.
Call Brian Bulkley 760 453-1149 or email him at bulkleysurfboards@hotmail.com He is an excellent shaper and is very available to talk about what you want. I have gotten a couple great boards from him (and at hundreds less than the big name brands where you are paying for their marketing)

BTW he shapes for Lost, and Matt Biolas had him shape him a gun.
JTS

 

Maybe if any local shapers embraced newer, post 1960's technologies like companies like Coil, Proctor, Inspired (for ...lost), Super, etc, then I would use them. I'll pay the extra couple hunny for a board that after a year doesnt lose its spring, turn yellow, easily ding, and suck up water, and depreciate faster. I used my ding repair kit once in the last 4 years.
I would never buy a ...lost poly, for the reasons you all are stating, but the Black Dart technology intrigued me.

 

design-wise....YES!
quality factor? um, maybe better deal elsewhere.

if you don't force the durability issue; you may wish you had.

 

Waiting on my custom 6'1" round up from lost. Had a chance to get custom pyzel and was leaning towards pyzel due the reputation of glassing vs lost. Then i found out they had same glassing for my order. Went with company that i had bought and loved boards from before. Cant wait to give a ride report when it comes in.

Bean bag looks so sick

 

Ok. what is sMe glassing?

 

I just edited this sorry,.. same. The glassing from the lost and pyzel that i was to receive were the same my dudes.

 

if the V2 Stub is considered a rocket mod, yeah, I'm currently riding it and it's good...I'd prefer and more pulled in/less round tail, but it rips pretty damn good, regardless.

Don't know much about the puddle jumper, but I like the shape. From what I can see on the net, there's plenty of rocker, a flippy nose, etc, so it should rip for such a stubby shape.

Like everyone said, lost performance shapes get lite glass (ALL channel islands get lite glass)...but I don't know in which category the puddle jumper falls (both my bottom feeder and couch potato had extra glass and both were off the rack).

 

idk, for me, paddling into small waves is more about muscle and technique than the board. For instance, you have to take off at the peakiest/most jacked up part of a small wave...and you gotta paddle like hell just to get to that peak (you can usually take off on the shoulder in bigger waves)...then you gotta paddle even more like hell to catch the wave. Yeah, certain board dimensions can help, like a wider nose, but packing too much foam on there just makes the board ride fat and corky to me. That's why, on my next batch of boards, I had the shaper thin out the thickness a tad, but I kept the same length I've been riding.

 

Pretty much this.

 

not necessarily.

Names are a matter of taste, but Lost boards aren't low quality. For whatever reason, some models are glassed thin, but Arctic foam is top-notch (3-ply stringer, dense foam, etc) and the designs are well thought out and, of course, well tested.

Unless you really know your sh!t, asking a shaper to make a board with only your specific design/dimensions is going to be, more often than not, an expensive disappointment. You're better off choosing one of the shaper's tried & true signature models...maybe adding a couple tweaks to make it "yours".

 

i second that.
even though i broke 3 losts maybe it was somehow my fault...really.