itt you tell me about your boards

Bling bling crack pipe hidden inside of his collar. Only the bling bling.

It's all I can think when I see your avatar. I love my white diamond and surfboards Hawaii.

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Enjoy

 

9' Stewart
5'5 Jimmy Keith custom fish
5'10 Vernor Rocco
5'5 ...Lost RNF with custom nose and asym tail (just sold)

had many boards come and go. very happy with my quiv

 

5 10 Ashton RNF
6 2 Ashton Groveler
6 2 Ashton Groveler (same board as above, just and extra copy)
6 2 Ashton Quad
6 4 Ashton Performance Thruster
6 2 Custom Lost Speed Demon

 

9'4 Eaveyrider
9'0 Gary Wilson HPLB
5'10 Eavey Stealth Fish
6'4 Bill Johnson HPSB
9'6 1961 Hobie

 

Boards I actually ride:

5'9" ...Lost Bottomfeeder
6'0" VEC custom shortboard, very traditional shape with a little extra thickness
6'1" ...Lost Tataki that appears to have finally ridden it's last wave, pretty bad buckle.
On rare occasions... 8'6" WRV mini-LB of some kind, my neighbor pulled it out of his basement and gave it to me.

Almost never ride:

7'6" Stewart mini-LB (first board)
6'10" Sharp Eye similar to what is now the Big Guy (2nd board)
6'4" Watercooled Tour Toned (I know, pop outs suck, I was young and foolish)
5'8" Channel Island MX (way too big for this thing, bought it used for the fins). Side note, anyone in the New England area interested in a beat up MX for dirt cheap?

Stoked to fix:

6'7"ish Lightning Bolt

 

working quiver:
5'8" bing dharma (on loan from a buddy)
5'10" campbell bros. octafish
6'4" bing bonzer 3
6'4" campbell bros. hpsb (aka "shelter" model)
9'6" wynn si si slider
14' bark prone paddleboard

laying around waiting to be sold:
5'8" lost layzboy $375
5'8" wynn quad fish $500
5'11" roberts white diamond $450
6'2" rusty bali single $375
6'4" ci fort knox $350

octafish gets the most use by far...pretty much my go-to in anything waist-slightly OH (which is why i have so much on the chopping block...trying to go as minimal as possible). i have a couple things on order, but have to sell those boards before those come in. would like to add a 12'6" expedition/touring style SUP for use on the back bays. not interested in using the thing in the surf zone.

 

5'5 Mini Sim
6'0 Twin keel fish
6'4 Battail quad (small to medium surf)
6'6 Round tail thruster/quad convertible HPSB (for good surf)
7'0 East coast gun for the biggest days of the year anywhere on the East coast and Caribbean
9'3 single fin log

All my own. There's no better feeling in the world for me than walking down to the beach from my house, going for a surf, and getting barreled on something that started out as an idea in my head. There is no greater satisfaction in my surfing life, and it's right in my own hands... It's not a wave on the other side of the world in some tropical paradise... it's not sublime perfection from the hands of a shaping legend... it's right out there... fresh of the rack in my garage, and down the street at my local.

 

I have an Orion (Greg Geiselman) swallow tail 6'6" - it may be an inch shorter now due to many nose dings - that is old an yellow but still surfs in good overhead waves to about chest high. I took it down to Costa Rica and caught DOH plus at the point in Dominical, and it handled it. Also surfed it in perfect lined up Pavones, and here locally at big Reef Road. It's old and dead, and I need to replace it.

My favorite board right now is one I made myself. It is a 6'4" fish, 22" wide, with a fat mini swallow tail. It is really loose, and has a pointed nose, not a round one, so it duckdives really good. It wont go straight, just rail to rail, up and down. It is good on anything choppy, and will float me in 2 foot crap. It starts to get all slidey and sketchy in shoulder high juice. It was made for most of the in between days we get here, when it is too choppy for a longboard and too small for a shortboard. It is really cool to surf on a board home made, and have it work well.

I use my daughter's 9' single fin on those lined up knee to chest high days, but am building a 9'3" hplb that can go out in bigger days so I can hog some sets at the Juno Pier. It will be a rounded pin thruster set up with lots of rocker. I am too busy working, surfing and wasting time on this site to glass it, but it is shaped and ready.

 

That's sick! I aspire to shape boards. Not sure if I'll be good enough to pull off the self shaped quiver though. Would enjoy seeing some photos of those sticks.

 

I went minimalist this season, cut the quiver down from 7 boards to 3.
6-2 mini simmons (in the shapers factory being built) by Mystic for 90% of the east Florida swells we get
7-0 big guy shortboard by Stu Sharpe when it's too big or choppy for the mini
10-2 singlefin log for when I wanna go logjammin

 

7'10" Turbeville funshape - Board I first learned on, still have it and use it on the small summer days.
6'6" JC Equalizer - A good step up board for the bigger days. I buckled it on a well OH day but it's still surfable.
6'2" JS squash tail - My go to all around shortboard.
6'2" JS rounded pintail - My toothpick board. Sits and collects dust for the most part.
6'0" Brian Wynn swallowtail - Newest board to the group, only surfed once. Shaped for good knee-waist days.
5'8" Channel Islands Fiscuit - This board is the sh!t. Plenty of speed with the quad setup, rideable in mush to head high.

 

5/6 s-tech, 6/4 potatonator, 6/6 s-tech, 7/2 firewireaddvance, 7/6 pintail, 8/0 pintail, 8/4 softop, 9/6 softop,
9/6 rhinochaser, 11/0 softop, 14/4 sup…..staytunedtidischannel……….

 

6'2 Super Marzo model
6'1 Dan Taylor
5'9 UM XX Fish
5'10 Strive Skip Jack Fish
6'8 Clairemont Tugboat
6'3 Chilli Step down
6'0 clairemont shortboard
7'2 WRV Fun shape

 

I currently possess a 8'4,6'8,6'4,6'2.iv always wanted to ride one of them small biscuit looking boards that's like a 5'5 but I think im too tall.my 6'2 comes up to the bottom of my neck,either the diminsions are wrong or idk because im not 6'10,im a solid 6ft.i had a 7'2 gun but traded it in because the waves never got that big to ride a gun.the 6'2 is my everyday board,the 6'8 is my step up for big solid 8ft(23ft Belmar( days.all my boards have massive dings I need to fix except the 6'2 so that's why I stick with that.

id love to surf on a real surfboard like a ci or lost.all my boards are bs companies I nevr even heard of.maybe they were big in the 80s,anybody ever hear of "croyle?"

 

Beware of the big names that mass produce boards. I've been through too many of them due to poor build quality. I had a lost round nose fish and the glass job on it was like paper thin. I got a new ding literally every time I went out. And I'm not talking normal pressure dings from wear and tear, legit holes into the foam. After fixing it over and over again, I said eff it when the leash plug popped out on a knee-waist day on my first wave and had to swim all the way in. The glass job on my JC was solid when I bought it, but after like 2 years of use it started to slightly delaminate and it buckled on a bigger day. I still have that board and I'm waiting for the day to take it out and have it snap in 2 on me. My two JS' have been pretty solid in all areas though, no real complaints so I gotta give it to the Aussie's on that one. But for the most part I feel like it's hit or miss with the big name brand boards. You can get a gem, or you can get a dud... Just my two cents.

I'd prefer to support local shapers more from now on, or browse the used board rack more looking for something in good shape that I won't be upset if something happens to it as I would if I blew $700 bucks on a brand new board.

 

Don't have any good pics of my boards... but here's one that's pretty much the same model as my 6'6 in a 6'0 I did recently for a fellow SI member... Not too good with the uploading... sorry

 

9'6 Allison log. My first board still kickin. Has various forms of cancer but refuses to die and is still fun. Has easily ridden 5,000 waves and at least 50 people have surfed it.

6' Perfection fish....getting pretty old. Been all around central America. Thin rails was fun in its time
6' Sharp Eye disco. Fun board. Got some big ones in Mex with it. Wish it was an inch or 2 longer
5'4" Sweet potater....love this board. Only really ride it and my log these days but I need one more board for good waves.

5;10 OP single fin...more or less a wall hanger
5'8 yellow "surfboards by Don" single fin. Looks and rides like a banana....cost 60$

 

How is Diego treating you. Fun winter so far? Cant tell you how much I miss the waves out there. I hope you are living the dream.

 

5' 9" Dan Taylor Pocket Rocket
Its a magic carpet in the barrel