hi lavz,good to hear your impressions of your sunova,i have a 6ft 6in x 19 1/4 one which is 8 or 9 years old and still looks like new,
its such a nice board to surf ,looks good ,feels good, excellent durability ,i can/t think i would ever sell it even though i have been making my own copies,
my own sunova has the fins 13 inches up and toed quite away off the nose ,what fin placement has yours got, pete
I would love to have a sunova mal… I think thats where the compsand technology would really come in handy.
I agree completely! The bigger boards really seem to be able to take advantage of the the flex and lightness. However, many of the design aspects that make a compsand go makes the big boards look really strange. My current one looks like a mutant jellyfish.
hi paul, my sunova goes great in all size surf really, the biggest i have been out in is 6ft plus and it does go better in larger surf , the rocker is different to most boards as well ,flatish with a kick in the nose , i can/t feel the difference in the fin positions,i have a 6 ft 4 in pu board and they both feel very similar , pete
Dak - I got your rail photos mate! GET EM WHILE THEY HOT!
John M - i got the rocker photos for you too…
Chip - the rear fin is located 3’ from the tail, and the sides are 11’ from tail.
Craftee - I had the same unrealistic notion that these boards would be majic and just somehow make you do backflips. After having ridden them, I don’t think there is a board like this in the world. I think surfing is very much to do with ability and technique. If you gave an amateur the best board available, and taj a shit board, taj would still smoke the amateur with technique and ability.
But as you say, the board has increased my surfing ability and is very durable… so what if it was in the hands of someone with greater skills, ie taj… and it improved his surfing ability ? thats taking the top and making it better? I think thats all you can really achieve…
Incidentally… the guy who I bought this board off had another board ordered, after 1 month when customer rang up, Bert said that he’d given it to Taj, and made this guy an exact replica. So this guy was surfing the exact same (as exact as it could be i guess) as Taj.
Anyways less talk with words, more talk with photos!
The board’s bottom is totally flat, no vee’s or concaves or convex’s or whatever else you can imagine.
These are the relief cuts I’m talking about. I don’t know enough about compsands to debate it all… so I’m just showing the pics. but you’ll notice that there is another band of wood inside the main rail on the bottom… actually 2
Finally - Newborn home made semi-gun, 1 year old thruster and compsand…
Notice how the 1 year old trhuster has heel dents like buggery, i checked the burger, and besides the depression of the front foot area… no dents whatsoever in 10+ years
…thanks heaps for posting those Ant , very informative !!
I was surprised there was no concave in the bottom ? [In one of your earlier shots , it almost looked like there was a bit of double concave ? … but , it might just have been my crap eyesight , mind you !]]
Can we have a shot of the side fin ,
and the back fin , too, now , please ?
[is it possible to somehow measure how THICK the fin is , too, if it’s not too much trouble ?]
and the base and depth and rake measurements of them ? [are the sides and back fin the same template , I’m wondering ?]
cheers mate !
ben
okay , the last one …what are the dimensions of your semi gun ? is that YOURS , or for a mate ?
On that photo, it might be the light, but it looks like the texture on the deck is different than on the rails. Does it come from a lap covering the rail from which we can see the limit? Is that a fiberglass band covering the rail (with a similar boundary on the bottom and on the deck) or the fiberglass from the bottom classically overlapping the deck?
Thanks soo much for those! Wow. I can’t believe Bert was doing things like this 10 years ago. It looks very simple, but who knows what lies under those skins. I learned alot just by looking at those shots. I agree with what you and Dave have said about “miracle” boards. Sometimes I hate being in the Line-up with my “fancy shmancy” compsand sucking like crazy while there’s this 14 year old girl on a busted up poly with a huge delam bubble on the bottom just ripping it up! Oh well…
Anyways, do you think you could post the thickness of the rail? I saw an old photo of a cross section of a sunova and Bert was using a 5/8 thick rail made up of 2x1/4 and 1x1/8 balsa. 'Just want to see if your board’s different. Thanks again Ant!
I believe that the different texture or shade is caused when the deck is blended to the rails. It could also be accentuated by an additional strip of fiberglass.
citys was shut off i guess , with the "city to surf 'fun ’ [torture] run…
so, where was that you surfed , ant ? [‘p.m.’ , if ya like ?]
scarbs was firing today !! but poor paz buggered up his leg … again !!!
I had three surfs today
[tomorrow ‘should’ be good , too , hopefully ?]
was that your brother’s digi ??
when are ya next free for some MORE watershots , mate ? [gotta get closer-up ones than that , I reckon ! …TAKEOFF shots / freefalls is what I’M after , at city’s …]
