Thoughts on new board

My red performance mini mal is EPS - light as hell and fun but we do get pretty stiff offshore winds during the best swells (nor’easters) so if everyone here is echoing the pros who knows about lightness and chatter verses heavier but stable and good feel then I feel good about that choice.

 

I also like the option the kid gave me about types of glass on the deck - I guess the pro boards they build have a 4oz E glass deck with a layer of 6oz S glass for extra strength. Good for my heavy footed ass! I already have noticed pressure dents in the spots my feet land on the deck of that mini I e been surfing the snot out of lately.

 

Mr B - it will probably end up waiting a bit anyway - I don’t see us getting any waves that fit the bill for quite a while I’d say. It’s been literally waist high max, since June 5. Literally. Secret spots go off here and there but nothing big in a looooooong time. Good advice though and well taken

 

Funny you say that about the fins - I find that exact thing with my mini mal... on days with ok power and size I can ride it in a tri but if it’s mushy or smaller i stall out with the tri, but the quad seems much faster and I can “pump” the board quickly just by rocking heel/toe and it speeds up right away and it doesn’t stall. Also paddles in early so I can ride the lip a little bit to catch some fun drops to get some speed up.

 

Just pulled the trigger on a 6’10” x 21”x 3” Roberts Big Boy Tri at 50 liters, 5 fin Futures, 4+6 S glass deck, in poly. Was gonna get fancy with resin tint but at an extra $125 I’ll stick with a nice white bort lol
6 weeks out and counting ....

 

I’ll try and figure out the logistics of that, and I’m a big fan of riding that bus scoobs, I truly believe in showing appreciation for services

 

So I called them and got The Man himself on the line, to tell him to add a 30 pack of whatever the shop drinks as a thank you... his response?
Custom 1/2” basswood stringer instead of stock 1/4” balsa and two layers of 6oz S glass on the deck - for free. And he was super stoked to do it!

Great idea Scoobs!

 

I certainly appreciate the advice Bud. And I’m already giddy about getting on it and pushing to that next level and having some fun! But it’s gonna be a draaaaaaaaag on top of a competely flat week to ten days for us .... again.
I can’t frikken wait for that smell of resin. That feel of a new boart and it’s lines and shape.
And just for shits - what kind of leashes are we liking here? I will still need to fin it up and leash it.

 

Well, If I dont get some actual waves pretty soon after all this paddle into knee high slop for the last two months, I’m not even gonna be able to surf the dam thing! The rides are fun and everything but not good for making progress in my surfing beyond cleaning up and speeding up that pop up and transition... longboard it’s great but I need it to be better for that smaller boart in taller, quicker waves for sure... and I’ll need to work out the LB habit of getting too tall right away, riding these sloppy waves, but it’s almost counter productive for anything else because it doesn’t work timing the waves, picking up shoulders, paddling into and lgetting up while actually dropping down the face...

And I miss like hell that zero gravity feeling and how the bort just drops down under your feet when you pop up like it’s doing it for you. I know I’m not alone though - it’s been a tough summer on the northeast coast at times. At least around here

 

This is what I’m building the bort for... that’s what we get on a fairly regular basis during the fall/winter/spring season on top,and the bottom is once in a while - that’s a mid January swell on the bottom. LB is fine for a time but I wanna carve up those faces and the first step is the right boart - second is getting good enough hahaha