Dimensions for a fish

[Spiney]

Hey everyone, thanks for all your answers. Eventually I bought my fish. I'll post the pictures tonight, but here's a little description : 5'8", retro style twin, good lookin', very flat rocker. Yes, a true retro style fish

I could only ride a few waves with it but I already love this board : very fast and efficient. But I expected an easier board, I'm afraid it is so fast that it's hard not to fall just after take-off. But I'll get used to it, when a board is too easy on your first waves it might not take you to the next level.

I also love the fins, FCS FK-2. Really changes me from my thruster, that's what I was looking for

[twerked]

^ i had the same reactions as you when i got my fish. it was 'squirty' at take off. like it shot out from underneath me as i popped up. but i got used to that. love it now. anytime it's mushy, small or big, it's getting taken out

[IB_Surfer]

Thursters hold up on the wave and then you press down once you get on it, the retro does not and picks up speed as soon as you get into the wave and you are basically standing up as it speeds down the wave. You'll get used to the popup of the fish, but more or less you are standing up on a speeding board instead of a steady stalled board.

[Spiney]

Exactly. When I say I didn't expect that, it's because one of my boards in France is a 6'0 Surftech Fish by Randall French. Modern Fish, yes, but still very fishy. And it was a very easy board

[Spiney]

Here's my new board ! Dimensions are approximately (I can't read them on the board, it is all waxed and so badly written) 5'8" X 20" X 2"5/8.

[IB_Surfer]

Purtyy board...

[Snoodle]

Nice board indeed, that makes me happy. I have a 6'0" x 20 1/2" x 2 1/2" twin fin, super retro looks like a similar shape to yours but with the thickness carrying through almost the whole board. I'm 5'11", 165 lbs (75 kg?). I got it a bit longer than I originally thought I would, first I tried the same board in a 5'10" but it needed a bit more wave to work, still surfed great when the wave had some steepness to it. But up here (vancouver Island) where I usually surf this (I bought it in Indo, very different waves lol) I am glad for the extra couple inches and the thickness.

After a bit you get used to it and I don't mind surfing mine in slightly overhead, as long as it's not super steep/hollow... but if you feel like on bigger days it gets too loose one option is to throw on some bigger fins. Hard to say but the FK-2s look like they are only a 2-tab FCS fin...? correct me if I'm wrong... but FCS also makes a couple models that are bigger that use all three tabs... I made myself a pair of larger keels similar to the biggest ones FCS makes and I found it made the board totally more stable and added some drive too. Although I shaped them with a bit of sweep to the outside and I found that lifted the tail so maybe that's where the drive came from. Made it shaky when flat though, nice and solid on a rail or transitioning.

Enjoy learning to surf the fish! Watch videos with Dave Rastovich, Curran, and Machado (when he's on a fish) and dream...

[IB_Surfer]

There will be a time, especially in the winter, when you will take out you fish and wish you hadn't, either the reports are wrong as to size or shape. I really prefer my shortboards to any fish I own or have owned, but I still have two: one retro for small days and one modern for in between days and I'm too lazy to shortboard or going to a mushy break, three shortboards and a gun, and one longboard too valuable to get rid off, if not she'd be gone. Preety much my quiver.

[drowningbitbybit]

There will be a time, especially in the winter, when you will take out you fish and wish you hadn't

That's true of any board.