Those 6 fins (what have I done).
The GOOD
shark teeth: excellent
channels: looks good
THE BAD
fins: well, you gotta try it to see!
THE UGLY
day glo-pink stripes: yuk!
Safe to say it won’t get stolen.
Hey Gadget,
My wife likes the paint job. When does it sail?
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Hey Gadget,
My wife likes the paint job. When does it sail?
The paintjob is getting to be a bit of a tiresome habit (see below)
and again
and again (fish emerging from old longboard, note old paintjob)
The fish will swim free this morning (2 hours time), after I have got my daughter off to school. Somewhere in the Bude (Cornwall, UK) area, 3-4’ but fresh onshores (supposed to swing offshore).
nice one gadget,those fins look great, hope it goes as good as it looks. st austell ,cornwall
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nice one gadget,those fins look great, hope it goes as good as it looks. st austell ,cornwall
Given the conditions today, the first run-out was inconclusive. Certainly it was fast, making it easy to catch the slack two foot mushburgers, but I didn’t get any real walls to lay down some hard turns. I was worried it would be stiff and tracky with all those fins, but my limited experience today allayed that fear. I did manage to nosedive it twice (whilst riding), the very shallow rocker is probably the culprit there. Both times it was when I hit a flat spot on the wave and leant forward to make some speed, I’m used to a 11" longboard! It’s goint to take me a while to get used to riding a shortboard that isn’t a thruster. Last time was 1981, my very first board; a 5’10" Twinny.
I’ll shoot some more photos.
Final dimensions are;
6’06" 18" Nose, 22.5" Centre, 19" Tail
Rocker: 3" Nose, 1" Tail
Thickness: 2.75"
Here are those photos;
Reminds me of the old p-40 flying tiger nose…I agree,it won’t get stolen…have fun…
(Sorry to be Dr Frankenthread)
Well… it finally died. But for five years it was my main ride. I loved that weird fish!
At least it died an honourable death, in a closeout tube, getting whacked on the reef. Snapped it and pulled the leash plug off.
It had a few mods as time went on. The rediculous picklenose got filled in with a sooper-scoop, to fix the nosedive issue.
And the fins had to grow a bit to cope with anything less than glassy.
So now I have reshaped another battle casualty.
It was a fat thruster, that delammed badly, but now it’s a 6’6" x 23.5" fishy.
