For those bigger outside lineup days. 9’0 x 16.5 x 21 7/8 x 13 3/4. should be fun…
very cool!
Kinda looks like part gun, part glider…
A glun!
or a guider!
**Shape looks great no catching on wide nose crap. Really interested in bottom contours, done a bunch of double barrel longboards, (see pix)**
**VERY interested in quad fin reports!!!**
**Surf on Brother.**
**Aloha**
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second that - also, measurements for quad setup, if you’re willing to share
lite single to flat to lite double concave, much shallower then yours. Continous rocker with just a tad of nose flip at the finish. Front fins at 16", rears splitting the difference. Got several sets of quads to try out. Really enjoying 5 fin set-up these days, thruster or in this case 2+1 when peakier, quads when really walled up and hauling akole…which in winter surf up here in Oregon, the land of too many damn beachbreaks, is usually the case…lol
Looks like she’s meant to go fast.
Clean outline.
Hurry up and get some time in testing (Ha work) before the freeze!
Checked out the surf from Aberdeen to Portland in early 2000, lots a interesting spots! Burr you guys have my respect!
Surf on Brother (and soon) and report in, eh?
Aloha Mattyto be clear, shaped by Art Coyler who I have been working with on my shapes for the past 6 years, the most important element was working up preferred cross section rail/foil profiles and bottom contours. So now I can just send him an email with outline dims, bottom/foil/rocker, fin set-up, and Art goes to work, and he is very precise. If on a 7’8 RP I ask for 5.5 N and 2.5 tail rocker, that’s exactly what I’m going to get. And boards usually done and delivered within 3 to 4 weeks of ordering, unless he’s on one of his 2x a year Japan shaping runs.
Being a former Rusty shaper, Art favors Rustys’ quad set-up, which as a front footed down the line runner, I do as well. Rears off the rail and more towards the stringer, not quite splitting the width between rail and stringer, in the steep stuff prefer 50/50 foils in the rear, 80/20 for a bit more pop if not so haul okole…
It’s fun designing boards, having someone reliable build them. then I get to spend my time surfing, fly fishing for salmon (a serious addiction), working on my property, visiting kids/grandkids, and have one less thing that aggravates the carpal and tendonitis that too damn much work and a whole lot of fun have left me with…
Interesting enough, our water temp up here has been in the high 50’s for the past month, hit 63’ few weeks back. And seriously appreciated because it will not last.
I’ll provide a ride report after some sessions both 2+1 and quad. Currently surfing every day there are waves, going in for a hip replacement in mid Dec and want to get filled up enough to last me for that 3 to 4 month recovery lay-off.
cheers!
**Ya know Icc,**
** Gettin' old isn’t that bad! Just love the Grandkids. Sorry to hear of the tendonitis, I suppose I just didn't mess myself up enough! Kinda been thru the same thing (shaping and have it done to spec.) only just couldn't say away, but only for fun... LOL**
Icc, Nice looking Board. Art does good work.
Big wave Gun? Really? Speed Board? Maybe. Semi Gun? Perhaps. Full on Gun? Not so much. Nice looking though. Here’s the question to ask yourself, ‘‘Is this the board you’d choose to paddle out with, on a 20 foot day?’’ If not, it’s not a Gun.
I think he called it a longboard gun.
So he did. To me, calling a board a Gun, implies quite a bit about the board, and its intended purpose. Doesn’t it? I wonder if there’s such a thing as a small wave gun? What’s in a name, eh? If you call it a Gun, it should behave like a Gun, in the kind of waves that Guns were made for. You think?
Long board
Long board gun (Fun gun)
Semi Gun
Gun (Big)
Out gunned
Don't be the later!
Aloha
There is a difference in guns. A .22 is not a 30-06. and such the same, a .410 is not a 12 gauge. All shoot bullets, and can kill someone if not handled properly.
I have seen guns (or so called guns) in the 7 ft range. It is my assessment that a 7 ft nothing is never a gun. Or to that matter something in the low 8’s. True guns don’t start until 9ft, and a 9ft gun is small.
aaahhh, but I digress, a gun is not a gun until it is surfed in gun type waves. So a Longboard gun would be perfect for Sunset Cliffs, or a solid day at Pickleweed Pt
Do you think they make Boogie Board guns?
But as you know PickleWeed Point will show its mean streak some times, and would call for a bit of a “real gun”
ok, we’ll just call it a gunny longboard.
And got a fun gun, racier then this one, one of my favorite boards.
And a semi, racier then my fun gun, which I rarely surf these days.
And a REAL gun, racier then my semi. Only I never ride it anymore, because these days when it gets big and gnarly enough to really need it, I feel a sudden urge to go flyfishing…lol
I think “longboard gun” describes the above board well.
whereas you might take you longboard out on a 2-4 foot day at Malibu
you’d take the above board out when it was solid overhead and your pig shaped noserider would not be working.
“Do you think they make Boogie Board guns?”
yes they do said sam-i-am
just like green eggs and ham
