Well, I finally got the new Vaquero spoon out for a surf on Tuesday in some clean, waist+ point surf.
I’m still playing around, trying to find the right fin in the right location, but these are my initial thoughts…
The board is like a giant liddle pointbreaker! When I stand back over the fin to turn as you would on a normal log, the board tends to slow way down and get sucked up the face and into the pocket, as if it were stalling. But then when you cross-step forward to the middle (or farther), the board just takes off and burns down the line. I haven’t quite got the hang of turns on it yet. It turns easily enough, but i think, like a smaller hull, it will probably turn more naturally from farther up (rather than over the fin like a normal log).
It will allow you to noseride (and by noseride, I mean hang some toes over the edge) but I had to be on my game and anticipate the sections ahead of time since in order to get to the nose and stay there for any measurable time. It was tricky because you have to work your way up through the middle of the board which is like stepping on the gas peddle, so I kept passing the noseride sections by.
nicely done man! looks like you added about an inch to your overall length there. the extended width in the tail looks like it’ll be good to turn off of. have you gotten to surf it yet???
hey Motif, i concur with QQg’s statement – it does look nicely done. However why didn’t you just get it 6’2" in the first place and just put less of a bead on and just shape the edge for more release?
great pic, Ryan. I truly dig how hull riders are sooo into a right proper bottom turn… unlike in anyother tribe, that is the move that when done ‘right’, seems to define good hull riding. Other tribes tend to look at the BT as simply setting up for a stellar lip bash or snap … or some other top move.
BTW - i’ve been contacted about possibly opening another hull thread, because this one takes long to load for some people. It doen’t matter to me that much either way- this person was trying to be polite about opening another thread … which is pretty cool when ya think about it … personally I do like having it all in one place… but if anyone feels like started another hull pic thread… by all means… i’ll be there too.
BTW - i’ve been contacted about possibly opening another hull thread, because this one takes long to load for some people. It doen’t matter to me that much either way- this person was trying to be polite about opening another thread … which is pretty cool when ya think about it … personally I do like having it all in one place… but if anyone feels like started another hull pic thread… by all means… i’ll be there too.
I don’t have a problem opening this thread exept that it doesn’t open to the most current page. It usually opens to a few pages back of the most current.
