Just curious to see what boards everyone likes riding and the conditions they like it in.
I’ll start it off by saying my favorite board is a 5’8" mini simmons i shaped a few months ago. It was the first mini i attempted and works perfect in the small clean surf we get over here in jax beach, florida. The smoothest board i’ve ever ridden.
For average NJ surf in the waist to head high range… my fish. 6’0 x 21 1/2 x 2 5/8 glassed on wood keels, deep fish swallow tail. A touch of vee in the entry, to single to double barrel out the back. Down rails. EPS/Epoxy, with 2x6 deck and single 6 bottom. Rocker is like 4 1/2 nose with some flip in the first 4 or 5 inches… about 2 1/4 tail
6-1 x 19.25 x 2.25 swallow tail HPSB ( hign performance short board ) . single concave bottom . Mike Daniel did the shape and Kirk Brisington did the fiber job .
works in just about everything i get around here in Orange county .
I can’t seem to post pics anymore but my JD keel fish is my fave. Doesn’t get much water time lately, due to fitness and time, but I fucking love it, it is unreal. Need another one !
This is like asking a parent who their favorite child is…
I would LIKE to say right now it will be the current longboard I’m shaping, but I (offffff course) fucked up the outline, so I have to do some retracing and pull in my tail a bit (about 3/8" on each side). There goes my hips. Still, I’m sure she will be a beauty.
Best waves I’ve gotten on a board? My Robert August Bud Llamas Sting model, which my sister found at the dump. No dings. Fins. Traction pad. Leash. The works. Just sittign there (along with 3 other boards). It’s big, like 7’ something, too big for me, but I’ve used it in overhead days and under knee days, and it paddles, floats and turns sooooo good. I love that thing.
6’4" Hynson quad fish. I try all kinds of shapes, larger and smaller, but always come back to this one when I want speed and a lot of waves. I really shouldn’t ride anything else.
Chris says this is more of a small wave board but its my step-up and possibly my favorite board ever. It works great for the waves around me with its flat rocker and old school foam distribution. I put the Futures Rasta set in and haven’t touched fins again. It has a basically flat bottom and the rails are chined like a Jobson in the middle 1/3 of the board. 2 of the best 3 waves I’ve ridden in the past year have been on this board.
It also has all the bells and whistles: resin tint, resin leash loop, volan deck patch, SICK!
Favorite boards among a 7 board current quiver for a 63 year old in cold water and thicker wetsuits.
8’6 x 17.5 x 21 7/8 x 14.25 x 3 single to double RP Art Coyler HPLB, smaller to overhead in ordinary surf. True Ames 3.7" side fins, 7" True Ames Yater classic. Easiest to ride longboard have ever been on, turns really well off the top and bottom, can pump it down the line, tip rides reasonably well.
7’9 x 13 x 21.5 x 14 x 3 single to double DT Art Coyler thruster with Simon Anderson L fins, for good waves head high to DOH. Extremely reliable, excellent paddler for the size, just does everything well for the length.
Like the other 5 as well, more ‘slot’ boards for bigger, smaller, or hollower. However, with these two have everything covered, and both hella fun to ride.
Numero Uno, my 7'6" X 19.5" squash tail Brewer shaped by Steve Morgan. Could handle close to triple overhead down to Bolinas 18 inchers, but kinda sucked in 3-5' performance surf.
we don't get consistent uncrowded 3'5' surf anyways, so it didn't matter.
this for majority of the time 1-5ft conditions. 5’3 x 19 x 2 7/16 (i think - forgot the thickness). 1.9lb eps core, s-glass, innegra, some hidden carbon and cork glass job.