I know some of you don’t mind what the pros are riding on the WCT, but some of you are interested on the “high performance” surfboards used on the WCT, so i thought you would like to know what the bigger pros are riding on the WCT since not all of us are 150 lbs grommets.
So here i post a couple of boards of my quiver that belonged to Luke Egan (5’11’’ & 200 or so).
Beach break / smaller wave board: 6’4’‘x19.25’‘x2.5’’ (Luke rode it for the last time on the Capbreton WCT)
Good wave board: 6’4’’ x 19 1/8’’ x 2.5’’ (Luke rode it for the last time on the Mundaka WCT)
On both boards the rails around the tail are thick and square as you can see…
Both boards ride insane, both are on my favorite list and soon i’ll have to try to reproduce them or they will die.
Hey Coque - thanks for posting those pics - really interesting for us bigger guys…How thick the tail is is really striking…I feel that tail thickness for bigger guys is seriously important for wave catching…
Ironic. I feel the thicker tail has an advantage or two that was buzzing in my head when I built it. (They are stiffer.) This is a shortboard that has been ‘fished’ a little. I did it last year and kept it for myself.
6-2 x 2 3/8" – It has dried salt on it that makes it look like a 36 grit finish. I just grabbed it and clicked. The funny thing is, this wasn’t a copy of anything. This was straight out of the ol noggin, including the outline. What is so funny to me is that I think we are coming from two opposite ends of design thinking, but yet ended up in the same neighborhood.
So if that is for a 200 lb. WCT pro then I just need to add 6 inches in length, 1 inch in width, and 1/2 in thickness and I’ll be good to go! That’s my adjustment for “never woulda surfed like a pro even when I was 20 years younger”!
A friend of mine mainly rides JS boards for the very reason that JS has been shaping great boards for bigger pros like Luke Egan… not just for lightweght surfers.
Occy is in a similar boat now riding JS boards… these are not exact dimensions as it is testing my memory, but I beleive the standard dimensions for Occy are something like 6’3"-18 3/4"-2 3/8". Slighlty less all round to the Luke Egans ones you posted but along the same lines.
Very interesting. I have a new 6’4" that is strikingly similar, although those tails look more pulled in. Florida waves require a bit more. I even have the subtle wing. I’m 6’2" and 210. That board doesn’t look all of 2.5" thick. I thought pictures were supposed to add 10 lbs…
I agree with you re width across front - but all the boards that I’ve made that catch waves well have a lot of meat in the tail (plus the hump that you can see in the pic).
If not for paddling/wave catching…why do you thinl LE went for such a thick tail??
Sorry for the delay but i don’t have too much time now since i’m on a four day vacation, sleeping on a friend’s house and surfing…
The bottom around the trailer fin/tail area is FLAT.
I can’t remember the rocker, but i’ll measure it on both boards on monday back at home.
By the way i’m 5’11’’ and 190.
Thefishexp, i own a couple boards made for Occy (one is a JS, but not the “Occy model”) and they’re around the numbers you wrote… so i need more wave to push my weight. Also checked Pancho’s but don’t like them that much… i have to try Michael Lowe’s.
I’ve riden a lot of boards from the pros and Luke’s are the ones i love the most for sure.
That picture of my board I posted looked like the rail edges are real soft, or even rounded. It’s my crummy camera and a healthy amount of pilot error. It actually has a fairly hard edge with rounded rails. (This is Texas and that’s my mush burger board.)
I’ve been thinking about a thruster for average waves to head high +. I’d love to still have good paddlability, float, and wave catching ability. I would prefer to go wider and thicker ( i have a 6’2’’ x 22’’ wide x 3’’ thick fish, and i dont mind the chunkiness of it at all ) than longer, and i’d like to know how wide i can go ( nose tail and widepoint ) before i lose the “thrusterness” ??. Im not a great surfer, and dont wanna rip like kelly, i just want to have a backfoot board. I realise this is kind of off topic, but any advice would be appreciated. I have seen boards in the resources ( josh?? ) that are 13n x 20 wide x 15t, they seem to have a nice shape about them.
Just lurking around when I saw this one, nice piccies coque!
Not that I understand such a board, heck I doubt I could even catch a wave with it at 6’2" and 100+kg, but those fins do look quite close together and indeed, low cant angles. Perhaps the thicker tail rail is giving some extra turning power in addition to some stiffness/sturdiness?
The outline is interesting too, the way the width narrows so rapidly in the tail section, this pushes the fins closer together imho, that combined with some “float” in the chest area leads me to speculate this board is eager to fins-free, does that make sense?
Again, just speculation on my part, I don’t ride high performance shortboards.
How are you getting hold of these boards are you judging QS or CT events or is it through your mate in Jeffries?
Have you scheduled you trip to SA yet. I should be there arounf March next year if all goes well. You can hang out with me for a few days - weeks. We can nock up a few boards and do some R+D on the local point breaks. When the swell arives you can go to you mate at Jeffrys if your not too hooked on Still Bay. The swell in Stillies is a bit more consistant and arives a day earlier than Jeffries. It will just be You and I in the water maybe one other if we can find someone to surf with us. HEHEHHE
