Hey
Had my shaper plough this one for me without really researching the bonzer history.
I am now fully aware of the history of it all and would like to know of any developments with relation to new style short boards with the bonzer fin set up. This one is 6’2" x 20" x 2 3/4" it paddles a bit deep so I am getting Ant to shape me a 6’4" so i’m looking for a few suggestions.
Please take into account i’m a bigger bloke about 90-95kg at the best of times.
Cheers
Poorboy
check out the bonzer blog, chip do you have the link? otherwise talk to tfad on forum.surfermag.com design forum.
nice stick!
found it!
by the way does that board have a deep double concave of a shortboard bottom?
have you surfed any of the goldie points on it?
Cheers man!
Cheers for the links Josh will check em out later.
At the moment the bottom plan is to make the next one with heaps more concave between the fins just like the Campbell brothers are doing them. But there seems to be a variance in opinion as to which way the concave should run. Everyone i’ve talked to and that has been everyone from new gen shapers through to old salty dogs have had different ideas on how to approach the next boards design. I’m keen for a 6’4" but for now my shaper wants to do some other things so maybe in the next month or so we’ll be deciding on how the board will end up. But in the mean time that gives me plenty of time for more research so i’m stoked.
Cheers
Leigh
Hey
Just thought I’d add some more banta about this board. I have surfed it in small waves and it feels like its waiting for an edge. I have surfed it in 4ft waves (D’Bah & South Straddie) and it has so much drive and direction that its mind blowing. I really am keen to refine it some more to make it the perfect all rounder and then try to convert the rest of my mates to this style of board.
Did anyone ever try a bonzer set up on a regular shortboard shape?
And what advantage do the flyer tails give when the board is already so drivey?
Cheers
Poorboy
Hey PoorboyOZ
Thats a nice shape you have there. But it looks to me like a small wave shortboard with a different fin set up.
What are the nose/tail dimentions and rocker dimentions?
I am also in the 90-95kg range and I think that shape would do me in the 6’10" to 7’2". (My allrounder is 7’6" x 21 1/2 x 2 7/8) Is there anyone else out there the might have some dimentions in my range?
Also I am starting to see a few board with this bonza fin setup around. Can anyone explain to me the difference between the two setups?
Cheers
MDS
Shellhabour NSW
Hey MDS
I think that the bonzer i’ve got at the moment will handle up to about 6ft i’ve surfed solid 4ft and felt comfortable so to limit it to a small wave wouldn’t do it justice. Who’s boards do you curently ride? I stock Red X to Raw Surfboards at Windang (they used to be in Wooloongong) and Karl was stoked to see my board and reckons a few of the older shapers down your way would be keen to do some. I am just having a 6’4" version of this board worked up and hopefully will have it late Jan 06 so I will keep you posted. On the dimensions front I’ll have to get back to you as I’m not near my boards right now.
Cheers
PoorboyOz
PS ya should check out www.poorboyusa.com for more info on what i’m up to…
PoorboyOz
I ride my own boards and in doing so, when I want another board, I just go out in my shaping shed and whip one up. Well not exactly, you know what I mean. I would like a board suited to waves around 4ft. My allronder does wave up to about 6-7 feet, and thats about my limit, and for the ankle biters a ride my 9’2" longboard when I go sufing with the kids. So an in-between board would fit nicely on my racks. I also have a 6’8" and 7’0" shortboard, but they dont float me anymore, a 7’8" mini-mal the my 11 year old daughter has claimed, and an 8’0 vodu soft top that I bought for my wife about 5 years ago (soft flexable fins, to much drag and very hard to turn) wife doesnt ride it any more but I get a lot of use out of it with the kids friends. I like my boards big and as I mentioned in my earlier post, and that shape in the 6’10" would do me just fine. I may just have to give the “bonza” thing a go.
Cheers
MDS
Shellharbour NSW
poorboy in my limited bonzerific expierence the board works better in small waves with a smaller traler fin like a large thruster tailer it reall loosens it up, while the speed and everything else are barely changed
So a bonzer - …deep concaves, 5 fins (similar to spitzer supercharger setup)…
Such a complicated bottom…so why more drive, speed etc…or is this an illusion…
I’ve never ridden one so i can’t say, but it goes against most other stuff i’ve read on here…
Did anyone ever try a bonzer set up on a regular shortboard shape?
Rob Machado did!
BONZER/FLYER
5’9" x 18.25" x 2.25"
SHAPER
Al Merrick
I just got this board, and it’s kind of an experiment. Me and Taylor Knox have been bugging Al to make us Bonzers* for a while now, and he finally said, ‘why don’t you just take one of your boards and have it retrofitted with more fin plugs and see how that goes?’ Which is exactly what we did, so it’s not really a traditional Bonzer – we just wanted to see how that fin set-up would go on any board.
I’ve ridden it a few times and it goes good – definitely different. It’s a cross between a single fin and a thruster. Thrusters are thrusters and single fins are faster – I think they go faster in a straight line, and you add a combination of side fins, it gives you the ability to turn in tighter places. I actually thought it’d be stiff with that big singlefin, but it’s actually pretty loose.
…I like this setup on my prawn .
However , it is not a bonzer bottom , but a flat bottom .
Still feels heaps positive off the bottom and the top …
ben