Ordered new fish

My buddy Tim fell in love with my half moon quad fish, and it was my go-to board before I got my carbon fiber. It was shaped after the Xanady Rocky as an all purpose board and in works in most conditions, but since I have so many boards, specific to conditions, I stopped using it as much. So I sold it to him and decided to have another one made but more fishy.

This one the nose will be wider and thicker and the tail will be rounder and wider on the back with the half moon a lot smaller. Think of it as a hybrid between the Xanadu Rocky and the Lost Monkfish with a half moon in back, and the thickness, width and rocker of a classic fish. I think the last iteration was higher performance but I'm hoping it will be more of a wave hog while also being smaller, just in time for summer.

For sure it will look cool. Lets see. I'll post up picks later.

Edited by themathteacher - 08 May 2009 at 9:35pm

wow nice board !

6'1" x 20 3/4" x 2 3/4", preety flat rocker except at the nose, hard rails to the middle, slight single concave to slight v in back.

Well, decided to sell her and it's gone.

Turns out to be a wave hog, but I was looking for a high perfomance wave hog, which it wasn't. Good performance, good glide, good hold on steep waves, good turns, but I wanted super high performance, missed it by a little. Too used to my shortboards for this one, too bad, awesome board.

I lost a little money on it but the guy that bought it was stoked and it should be great, hes a starting surfer so it should be super stable for him.

Gonna re-order it thinner and epoxy, see if the extra lightness and thinness gives me the the same glide but higher performance.

Do you keep Micah on retainer?  Looking forward to seeing the new one.

Still getting over the flu, probably sunday

Pretty much the same, except these are epoxy. The old one was fiberglass, and at 2 3/4" was heavy like, well, a fish. So you get the swooping turns of a fish.

I think the lighter weight will let me throw and snap it easier, so I get the same glide but with added performance, I hope.

how much did those set you back, if you don't mind me asking?

well i know where i'm going for my next board.
that is a great price

OK, back from the shop with the new pinlines, and boy do I like it even better! Get to try her tomorrow, will post info..

So, like the white board, took it out under the wrong conditions, OB was big, 1 or 2 feet overhead but with big mushy takeoff's into big walls. It paddled better than the white one but was harder to duckdive, but man oh man it handled steepness with no problem. It wasn't barreling, but definitely steep and it did not slide out at all.

Happy with both, but I think I only need one, still thinking what to do...

Looks really good!

I think so, I might sell the white one since the green one is too preety.

Still, the white one performs better, the green one catches waves easier. I need to put a tail pad on the green one, might be why I think it doesn't perform as well.

Both are super light since they are epoxy, both have fish glide with shortboard performance, so totally stoked.

Need another week to decide.

Well,
I found the white one to be more shortboardish and the green one to be more "fishy" so far.

I'm gong to put a track pad on the green and the small back fins. If it handles like the white one then I'm selling the white one, if it still handles "fishy" then I am keeping both so I can enjoy the feel of both.


Edited by themathteacher - 24 November 2009 at 8:34pm