sunova

General Discussion
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She finally turned up! My new Sunova 6’6" Professional, giving her a run tomorrow.

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Oh wow, I don’t even know how to describe how nice that is.

what kind of wood is the deck skin?

have fun

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Thanks, the deck is Maple with an African Cherry stringer.

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hI sc,

Do you reckon you could do that one and ultimate test for us? PLEASE!

could you prove to us that the board forms a concave when loaded?

Just support the middle part and the tail, put a flat underneath the board, say in between fins.

then

load the board between the supported poimt with weights, bricks, wife and kids, beer kegs,

restick a flat between fins

Did the concave INcrease???

i am dying to see the result.

Wouter

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I will try

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Thanks!

Cool.

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I did what you said and there was a very small difference in the concave.Maybe 1/32 in I think that the board needs to have pressure over the entire bottom for the boards to morph under load.I put my entire weight on it which is about 155 pounds.I think that the board is a little to stiff for what I am used to because I ordered it with the standard glass.The next board I will order will be with a lighter glass schedule for sure.

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My personal preference is for ridiculously light. 2oz inners, 2oz bottom, 1x4oz deck. I’m 80kg, 6’3" and ride 6’6" generally.

But, I’m not a board stomper, and of course I have easy access to equipment to fix dings pronto.

This amounts to half the fibreglass our “standard” schedule uses. The age-old durability issue raises its head, with the expectation of the marketplace that composites are way stronger. I don’t have Balsa decks in super-light, but I have a personal board in production at the mo with dual layer, balsa/veneer with only 1x4oz…that’ll be a test.

When we do wood decks in superlight, the balsa has to be selected carefully for hardness.

I get heel dints, but the longevity is better than with PU even in a board weighing only 2kg. I’ve never busted one in more than 2 years on composites.

With the feedback we are receiving, the “standard” may change, but for really heavy guys, longboards and Guns, the additional stiffness of a “Standard” schedule is necessary because of the forces applied to a board. That is a big consideration for performance.

A big guy AND heavy waves with a very light board = too much flex.

We’ll be tuning glass schedules closely according to wave types and rider weight, especially for the likes of Karl in Florida.

The Morph concave thing is very suptle…Its not going to do a Webber double-barrell. The lighter the glass schedule, the more the Morph will come into play.

We are getting a library of concave bed inserts together…to sort out certain conditions and guys who want it.

A mild single concave will initiate the Morph earlier , because, well, its already in there…

In my quiver I have some flat and some single concave. For me, the jury is still out on flat bottoms, while Bert is a long-term exponent. The corrugation effect of a double concave would stiffen a board as it does in a poly…appropriate again for guns and hefty power surfers.

Josh

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good stuff josh :slight_smile:

i feel the same way

was starting to think i was all alone in the world

i got a nother way of doing single concave

havent tried it yet

just use a sheet of 3mm mdf on the bed

and run a strip of something up the midlle underneath it

whadya reckon

i gues the only other option is to bag twice

bugger that !!!

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Surfercross,

Thank you so much for taking the time to test this and post the information !

BTW, i live in the netherlands, which has even poorer surf than the Floridians.

Is there any way you could load any pic of an average Floridian wave, you know, the stuff you get all over the year, the mediocre stuff?

Do you really feel the sunova is too stiff?

Cheers!!

Wouter

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average NZ wave 3ft, 9 to 12 second period

offshore and peeling

good day 4ft maybe a bit bigger on the sets

i think i get maybe 4 to 5 days a month like this and another 5 days at about 2 ft and maybe some days 3 ft

some times we get waves like above for 4 to 5 days straight

zero crowds

i dunno why everyone goes on about that goldy and that

its 1 to 2ft and onshore 6 second swell most of the year

i know you didnt ask me

jus thought id rub it in :slight_smile:

i never seem to take that trip to indo for some reason

the naki

http://www.surf.co.nz/news/search/news.asp?newsletterId=4846

l

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Hey Paul

Don’t worry you’re not rubbing it in that much, second wave looks kind of fat don’t you think ?

First wave has a nice foam stain on the face though.

Cheers

Mooneemick

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Can’t imagine making/buying a board because of morph. It seems just too ‘Tinkler-Tailish’ to me.

Fins have a far bigger affect on the ride,I would think some guys will likely drool over morph, but completely ignore their fins. Jury still out on surfercross’s sunova…Im optimistic about it…but its a really bad time of the year to surf.

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It is to stiff for me only becuase i think I am used to my boards having more flex in them and I have learned to use the flex to my advantage.The sunova I ordered had the standard glass schedule and I should have went lighter.The fault is mine not the shapers.Josh did a great job on this board but it just doesn’t go like I want it to.I surf a lot of small waves and I really like the board to bend into the wave and push me back out.I can surf my coil and firewire on waves you would not even think about riding they are so small but on the same token I will take those same boards out on overhead waves and have a blast.

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Quote:

Surfercross,

Thank you so much for taking the time to test this and post the information !

BTW, i live in the netherlands, which has even poorer surf than the Floridians.

Is there any way you could load any pic of an average Floridian wave, you know, the stuff you get all over the year, the mediocre stuff?

Do you really feel the sunova is too stiff?

Cheers!!

Wouter

Here, this is pretty average…

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its the same place!

i know its hard for aussie eastcoasters to comprehend a peeling reefbreak and not have 600 guys out :slight_smile:

but there you go

fat? pfft

is this one hollow enough for ya mate

its 4 ft

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so the average florida wave is 1 to 2 ft ??

now i know why you guys are always talking “drive and speed” :wink:

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Hey Silly / Paul

Yep you’re right bloke… Superbank has nothing on that setup.

Cheers

Mooneemick

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Hey Bob

I like that second shot, I reckon that little kid’s eyes are out on stalks !!

Cheers

Mooneemick

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so the average florida wave is 1 to 2 ft ??

now i know why you guys are always talking “drive and speed” :wink:

According to NOAA data, Brevard County (yep, that’s where I live) has the highest ‘‘mean wave height’’, 2.6 ft, on the Florida coast.

FWIW.