hallo everyone,
recently I got myself a HP longboard , It’s a McTavish F4 EPS.
it has almost everything needed to make it a good HP long but it lacks of nose and tail rockes.
it’s suppa light, thin , hard edged tail, quad+1 , narrow and mostly - SEXY!
when I was checking it at the shop , I measured the nose and tail rockers and they seemed quite low for this kind of board.
if I remember good they were 3 1/8 tail and just under 4 nose.
slight V bottom from 2/3 and through the tail , no concaves at all ( nither nose or in the V … nothing ! )
since I was an idiot, I couldn’t wait until I finish shaping my own HP ( which is in progress) and took the MCTavish home.
I tried it at 1-4ft beachbreaks, and my impression is that this board is really hard to surf.
backside surfing is hell , steep drops are also hell and the board tends to catch the rails and nose during
sharp rail2rail changes.
I have to admit that when I get a good wave , I rip! but mostly I’m having a really hard time with this board
and I don’t enjoy surfing.
do you think I can blame the low rocker for this behavior?
if I had more tail rocker I could lift the nose more while hard/quick turning and not burrying the nose/rails.
Another thing is that Mctavish claims in their F4 introdution seen at youtube that the this model
has both nose concave and a concaved V … which turns out to be false. It’s FLAT with V
please help me find out what is the reason for such behavior .
thanks,
Lee
btw,
I tried the quad setup and I really don’t like the feeling . I put on a 2+1 and it feels
much more natural .
links to the F4 model-