Surfing Waves

Thought you may like to see our new boards

What's the other measurements for that middle one? (6'8'')

ooh fancy shmancy

look sweet jonny who shapes them?

what sort of price you looking at for them?

ill be in barnstaple next week at some point ill drop and have alook

Uffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff am I in heaven?

hey boards look great.......just wondering what is the advantage of having the groove cut into the board on the far right.......ive seen loads with them and dont know why they have them.......i assume its to do with steering or something?

jennie wrote:just wondering what is the advantage of having the groove cut into the board on the far right.......ive seen loads with them and dont know why they have them.......i assume its to do with steering or something?

Thats a swallow tail.
It's more about catching waves and generating some speed on gutless waves. The large surface area (compared to a square tail, for instance) gives you lots of drive

So a board like that fish would be great for small summer waves, or for the south coast of the UK


Mmmmmm.... nice boards......

you learn something new everyday........hmmmmm i wonder if its worth investing??? have you ever ridden one......do they make alot of difference?

Ive 'started' riding one at the mo ...although i havent progressed very far on that board just yet ....but the waves i have had on it fast as flesh ! I think itmay also be somthing to do with keeping the length of the board up while having less area

drowningbitbybit wrote:

jennie wrote:just wondering what is the advantage of having the groove cut into the board on the far right.......ive seen loads with them and dont know why they have them.......i assume its to do with steering or something?

Thats a swallow tail.
It's more about catching waves and generating some speed on gutless waves. The large surface area (compared to a square tail, for instance) gives you lots of drive

So a board like that fish would be great for small summer waves, or for the south coast of the UK


Mmmmmm.... nice boards......

you almost had it... It's split to give it more bite, it's also known as a tin pin tail, so instead of having a tailblock like a foot wide in the water on rail, it's being on a single fin pin.

all that other stuff is just a result from all that extra foam

jennie wrote:you learn something new everyday........hmmmmm i wonder if its worth investing??? have you ever ridden one......do they make alot of difference?

Ive got a hybrid fish (fish meets thruster) and Ive ridden 'pure' fishes - yes, they make a huge difference. If you surf the south coast or mostly in the summer, its probably a good choice of board . My shortboard doesnt get ridden nearly as often.

deathfrog wrote: you almost had it... It's split to give it more bite, it's also known as a tin pin tail, so instead of having a tailblock like a foot wide in the water on rail, it's being on a single fin pin.

all that other stuff is just a result from all that extra foam

Nope, we both had it really...

Extra drive wont come from more foam - added bouyancy, yes, which makes catching the wave easier, but thats not the same as drive.

The swallow tail gives added drive AND makes it much looser, partly due to the 'bite' and also due to the 'drive'

hmmmm i didnt know they made that much difference but they sound pretty good.....i have a 7 8" minimal and thats really fun for catching waves and playing around.......

......but i am tempeted to go shorter just i always thought that it wasnt worth it because i wouldnt get much use out of it due to the lack of larger waves....

how short do these babies come?

This NSP Fish is 5'6"...

...but its dogsh*t! Waaaay too heavy.

by "drive" are you speaking of fast acceleration or top speeds or power?

I think of it as fast acceleration, but whatever. I was always under the impression that the swallow tail had less to do with the drive of a fish, but the relatively low tail rocker did that....

beautiful boards, too bad im in the states.....

how much are they goin for?

I dunno about it being too heavy?! I hav used one at a rental shack and found it nicely weighted....although its a bit too thick...kinda different from the usual watercooled?!

Surf4eva!

hiphopdec wrote:I dunno about it being too heavy?!

A custom one wont be

Ive got a surftech, and its the lightest board I own

hiphopdec wrote:I dunno about it being too heavy?! I hav used one at a rental shack and found it nicely weighted....although its a bit too thick...kinda different from the usual watercooled?!

Surf4eva!

I also hired one out, just for an hour last summer and was expecting great things as I walked into the water with it.
My usual ride is a 6.0' custom thruster round-ish tail and so I thought as this was half a foot shorter it would be really fast and responsive - it was quite fast but not like I thought it should be as it was hard to pump and when a classic pop up floater opportunity arose I went for it and the damn thing wouldn't jump up! Just a really dull ride, too slow and not responsive through being too heavy, and the fins seemed to be too flexy/wobbly - a real shame .

I'm convinced they're not actually for people who can surf.

I think they're a massive step forward from the heavy old pop-out I bought when I started and you can at least turn them, but I don't think they're any match for a custom board!