6'2 Drifter...had about 7 surfs on this board now, tried it as both a thruster & a 2+1. In head & 1/2 down to waist high reef & beach. Fun board to ride & an easy paddler, although not so easy duckdiving sucky beachy waves haha. Has reasonable single concave through a pretty flat rocker with light double into the fins. Flows well through flat spots & generates speed well. Pretty manoeuvrable but considering its a 6'2 I can't get it to cut back on rail as tightly as my other boards. I think coz it maintains a lot of thickness into the tail. Foam rebounds are effected coz of this coz I find I'm not rebounding from as high a point coz my arcs aren't as tight. Still really fun to ride though & feels great pivotting off the bottom & turning off the top. I feel like I can get fairly vertical off the top, but video will probably reveal I'm not at all lol. But yeah the shape suggests fun board & thats what it is...would really like to try the 5'10, I'd probably have much tighter cut backs. But then the trade off is the paddling & wave catching ability that I purchased it for to fill a gap in my quiver. Basically allowing me to get out there on a shorter board when I would otherwise have to grab my longboard due to the waves, how I'm feeling on the particular day or the number of people on 666's & longboards frothing for waves. This 38L board would probably float guys a lot heavier than my 80kg. But yeah I'm pretty happy with it & think it will really be a great asset surfing the local beachie this summer

looks a bit like the takayama scorpian

Ricardo1709 said..
looks a bit like the takayama scorpian

Outline absolutely, bottom shape not so much...If I could customise it I'd go deeper concaves through the fins, have a thinner rail thoughout (domed deck) & have drop down rails on the tail to give it more bite along with the deep double concaves

MickPC said...

Ricardo1709 said..
looks a bit like the takayama scorpian

Outline absolutely, bottom shape not so much...If I could customise it I'd go deeper concaves through the fins, have a thinner rail thoughout (domed deck) & have drop down rails on the tail to give it more bite along with the deep double concaves

That's my board you described except mine has double flyers which makes it even better imo. My deck is pretty flat though,still nice low rails.

Surf69 said...

chrispy said..

MickPC said...

Ricardo1709 said..
looks a bit like the takayama scorpian

Outline absolutely, bottom shape not so much...If I could customise it I'd go deeper concaves through the fins, have a thinner rail thoughout (domed deck) & have drop down rails on the tail to give it more bite along with the deep double concaves

That's my board you described except mine has double flyers which makes it even better imo. My deck is pretty flat though,still nice low rails.

Same, but less area in the nose (Helps Duck Diving) no Flyers for on mine, though they would work well to pull the tail in a little - Its a Matt Biolas Ezy-up, slghtly moded with deeper concave Lower harder rails. Absolutely the ducks guts loving it. Much easier transition from that to a long board or visa versa for me if choosing to ride a variety on any given day.

Its amazing what you can do when you order a custom

chrispy said..

Surf69 said...

chrispy said..

MickPC said...

Ricardo1709 said..
looks a bit like the takayama scorpian

Outline absolutely, bottom shape not so much...If I could customise it I'd go deeper concaves through the fins, have a thinner rail thoughout (domed deck) & have drop down rails on the tail to give it more bite along with the deep double concaves

That's my board you described except mine has double flyers which makes it even better imo. My deck is pretty flat though,still nice low rails.

Same, but less area in the nose (Helps Duck Diving) no Flyers for on mine, though they would work well to pull the tail in a little - Its a Matt Biolas Ezy-up, slghtly moded with deeper concave Lower harder rails. Absolutely the ducks guts loving it. Much easier transition from that to a long board or visa versa for me if choosing to ride a variety on any given day.

Its amazing what you can do when you order a custom

Sounds good guys, post some board pics

Sandsy1 said..

Nice looking board Mick. But what the fark is 2 & 4 7th's!!! Sounds like Chinese arithmetic

lol probably, a little more precise with the shaping machine I guess. Think this one is from China, last one was made in Bali

Yep if I was considering a custom, a Goddard would be far from a bad choice mate

LMAO

CF, might I suggest getting plugs in the PB, it is a good hull but the 3 glass ons retard it severely.Dont blame you for moving the 8nug along, just too heavy.The XF 8/0 is the one to get.

Photo of the Day: Derrick Disney, Rocky Point. Photo: Ellis

Cheers SP. Top one reminds me of that old Richard Cram shot from way back when... meanwhile the lady longboarder is looking at the wash with serious intent. I'd love to see what she did next.

Edit:

The outline has been drawn and cut out. These got ordered last March (2015). Hopefully they are completed this year. 9'6" X 21 1/2 X as much as he can get out of the blank (around 3 1/2 Tom reckons - maybe a smidge more) and 8' X 21 1/2 X whatever he can keep (3 1/4 roughly maybe).




But they are babies next to this behemoth 12 footer. I simply can't imagine the waves it is capable of surfing, although I have seen pics of it in action at huge Margies. It gets stored at the factory for space reasons.




The broccoli board on the left, and four more out of frame, are for two Queensland blokes. Keep an eye out for them surfing five fin Precision Equip surfboards.

These two for me are the first boards I will have with The Claw, despite having 7 boards off Tom over the years.