Technical Advice

General Discussion
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I saw a 9’6" longboard for sale the other day by a local company called rhinochasers that was very intriguing.

What caught my eye was that it was a redx 5 finner with the same bizarre bottom as Curren’s imfamour Rocketfish design from Tommy Petersen. You know the 6 channels with the curved break into another step and 4 channels in the tail…

Never saw a bottom like this on a longboard…

Any idea on what effect it will have on a board this big. The tail was really thin (1-1.5") with the step.

The shop owner said he thought it would mess up the water flow on a longboard and that you need a cleaner bottom off the tail for a 9’6" (standard MAL shape not a gun)

Analysis anyone?

cause i’m thinking about it since it looks so intriguing…

Mahalos

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Seems to me most extreme channel bottom boards track pretty well, and when given the command, get REALLY loose really quickly.

Not a bad trait in a longboard meant for pointrights, with somewhere to go.

Check the glassing of the channels, as there are lots of spots for thin glass and weak spots.

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I understand but just to clarify this is bottom…

and its a four fin with a trailer (5fin)

Never saw something like this on a 9’6" longboard

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Just because YOU haven’t seen anything like it doesn’t mean it hasn’t existed for years and decades.

I’m glad the channels weren’t on the deck of the board. Is that what YOU thought I thought?

Boards like that first started coming out sometime in the early '70’s, as far as I know, and prolly 20 years before that time.

Obviously, not the most successful shapes!

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LeeD I wasn’t questioning your comment I just wanted everyone to know what I was talking about but since you seem to know alot about everything, how about an honest non-biased assessment.

Would you buy something that big (9’6") with that bottom and as a four finner used for $600? For surf on Oahu? Wouldn’t it get real squirrelly in the white water? And would a tail bottom like that really make any performance benefit on a tanker? I think they call them longboard nowadays…

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As a lightweight rider, I would most definetely buy that board for use on the SShore, in small waves, for it’s quick direction changes, it’s loose feel, and it’s unique shape appeal.

For $600, I can get one made in the Islands, brand new, with my name on it. So I wouldn’t spend more than say…$450 if it’s in cherry condition.

Of course, I’d have to call in a few chips, re establish some connections, and use up a bunch of my owed cards.

But I don’t really care to own a longboard nowadays, my garage space and my Honda Civic are both too small, and I’ll savor learning that skill when I get older.