I love/crave noseriding and am addicted to doing it. If i didn’t shape my own successfully, i would probably find Kevin Connelly from San Diego North County, who is an insane noserider and learned shaping from Skip Fry and the Rusty guys!!! Probably $900.+ though!! Otherwise SurfRide and Mitch’s have insane big money Longboards to blow your dough on!!!
Funny that the Yater name isn’t there… while he does have a Surftech series available he still does shape beautiful sticks here in SB(as does his son Lauran) I don’t think they do the glassing but there are a number of distinctive 1st class plan shapes, some retro and some high performance modern long and short designs…as far as I know he’s never stopped producing some of the best. Cooperfish is another excellent example of brilliant design and quality (I just picked mine up - pray fer surf)
Harbour don’t shape anything anymore,overly expensive cnc finished by some kid.
JohnC, we now have a good NZ swell that has been in the water for a few days now. So the big question is how do you like your Cooperfish? I pick mine up next month, and I’m dieing for some feed back from someone that has one. What model did you get?
weeeell, I picked it up Monday and brought it home to wax and show my wife. No waves Tues so a brief paddle at Leadbetter(nice feel). I’m 55 yrs and 6’ and the wrong side of 200 lbs but the board feels very nice. It’s 10’2’Lightweight foam single fin parallel rails concave nose some vee in the tail about 3"3/8 thick extending pretty far out to the rails which are 50/50.It’s a new model Gene’s working on so I suppose it’ll be a prototype until it gets a model name.As with all of his boards the shape is cool and glass work is artistic - his color work is incredible(take a look: http://www.cooperfishsurfboards.com/cooperfish.html ). The whole feel of working with is great, he’s an intuitive guy and I felt like I was in good hands. I grew up in Redondo near a lot of the shops this thread has refered to, I got most of my boards from Jacobs, Bing, and Rick Stoner in those days. As I recall we all wanted a stick that would pull a radical bottom turn and hold up on the nose. When I saw my C’fish in it’s pregloss glory I had a great flash back to those days and a big shot of vitamine S. I can recommend Gene’s work with complete confidence cheers, johnc
JohnC, sounds like you and I have the same board. The one I have ordered is larger, I surf Santa Cruz, that being 56, and 230lbs I need a lot of paddle. Hope I’m as stoked as you are. TK for the information.