From my understanding the Fireball square tail has a flatter rocker than the pintail version.
The UFO comes standard with pulled in nose and pintail.
The Redline comes standard with triple stringers.

So size wise the new log would be 9.6 x 23 x 3.

So what do you guys think

get a long board, which type, which one/brand, what lenght

background- shortboards. last 3 years sups. pretty much never ridden longer boards till then.

also, one that does get caught up in the pocket

Hi Guys,
I've been following this forum for a few years now first time to post.

I've been riding a Billy Tolhurst 9'2" x 22 7/8" x 2 13/16" square tail tri-fin for the last ten years or so since I started riding a longboard (I also have a really sweet Brett Munro 5'10" quad fin fish).

I love the Tolhurst board, it's really loose, I can get on the nose, but I'd really like to stay on the nose in the pocket.

Question is do I go super traditional style tanker around ten foot or do I go something in between around 9'6"?

Any suggestions from the forum would be much appreciated, I'm a mid 40's 77kg 5"9" guy, surfing since I was 9 y/o, I mostly ride the reefs in Westernport Bay (Vic).

Cheers, Merricks

Hi All,

I've been looking around the forum for a good six months now and have decided to step up after some encouragement from 62mac.
I live in Perth and occasionally get over to QLD to surf at greenmount/rainbow.
Haven't quite caught up with all the rules out there on the water as yet but am getting there.
My only regret is that I should have started this surfing thing about 40 years ago.
Anyway, just thought I'd say hello. I have a new board problem at the moment but will elaborate on that after the shaper and I have got that sorted.
Cheers
Rick

Picked up my new board yesterday.

Munro 9'1 X 22 1/2 X 2 3/4
Concave to double V.

The board has some Carbon Fibre Rods which apparently doesn't add any real strength to the board but takes out some of the flex. You can see them being the black lines out near the rail on the bottom.

I am going to leave it for another week to cure before hitting the water. Can't wait . Here are some pics