Hello all,
As i'm sure happens to everyone on here (if not everyone who surfs) my house has over the years slowly begun to fill with surfboards (most of which I bought cheap on ebay and fixed up - though more recently two of my own) and alas my better ½ is starting to notice. So I’ve had a quick look through the quiver for boards that I can find good homes for.
Amongst the early contenders are the shortboards that I’ve "outgrown" and also an 8'1 mal that I bought cheap with a couple of soon repaired dings as I had a free weekend, thought it looked nice and I didn’t have anything between 7' &9'.
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I don’t know a great deal about the origins of this board the artwork/righting would suggest its from Lanzarote. What I do know is that (whilst I’m a firm believer that their is no such thing as a bad surfboard) it and I do not get along, I hardly catch any waves and the ones that I do catch don’t go well (it stresses me out just thinking about it!)
So what I’m looking for from this thread is any advice you can offer as to why this board does not suit me so that I can make the ones I shape more agreeable and if possible quick fixes that I could use to mitagate this e.g. harder rails, a quad setup etc.
Cheers
Ryan