So I'm in the market for a new board for the summer months and I've narrowed it down to the following...

Firewire Baked Potato
Lost Bean Bag
CI Average Joe

Basically looking for something that is 5'7 to 5'8 (38-40ltrs) that is going to be super fun on those really small days.

Opinions please.

Jfunk said..
Go to your local shaper, get something made exactly how you want it and support your local community.

This

Just get a foamy. Did you see the clip of JOB riding one in indo?

Chippa goes alright on the foamy. Still keen on the $1000 firewire?

Get a 5'10" twin fin, 6 channel, double flyers, 4 inch swallow. Double six ounce glass for durability. I got one 15 years ago. There have been six copies of it made by people who surfed mine and wanted one. Pulled in nose too, not the full fish shape.

Mine was a copy of a 1981 Murray Smith twinny I had had since 1986 or 87.

I had an SP and it lasted me 4.5 years. Loved that board. Well worth the dollars. I swapped that for a Nano which I loved but did not last as long. Here is the broken beast and after repairing her back to new again. SP the board for small gutleSs waves hand down.

Had my baked potato 2 years. Not a mark on it. Hands down the best summer board I've ever owned. Goes from knee high, to slightly overhead. Get some big fins though. I'm running futures MB2 quads.

Tux said..
Torquay Surf has heaps of firewires for sale at really good prices at the moment

Thanks Tux

Unsure of just how gutless a wave you're talking, but check out these boards.

www.softechsoftboards.com/collections/boards

Much tougher construction than your El Nino flexi crap. I've got the 5'10" fish tail signature. Have owned plenty of softboards (and broken them). These ones are gold. Had a ball pulling into 1ft closeouts last night. Quad setup, wide boards. You can literally get into everything with ease. Perhaps not as easy to turn as fibreglass, but you can genuinely catch the smallest waves and get through fat sections with ease. You'll also find very few used ones being sold. People don't get rid of them once they have them.

MickCam said...
Jeezus Ted!

What/where did that?

Is the construction a bit dodgy or was the wave just a beast!?

that was the end result of a dredging 5 footer on low tide. Surprised it lasted that long to be honest. It got a truckload of beatings the last 6 months

New shorty, based on Vadar, shaped by a mate. Goes unreal but likes good waves not so much the grovel rash.

you have a lost couch potato on there..... i surfed a puddle jumper and thought it was super fun board...could probably push it way more than what it was designed for. it really made me smile

second the timbertek baked spud
gr8 board
i've a couple of timbertek, no issues at all

Just been tuning in a 5'6 performance hull it' goes pretty dam good similar to the evo but much cheaper will put it on the demo rack if any one keen to try

Hey salty the demo riding is 5'6 20 21/2 16 nose and 16 tail large rounded square nose /tail huge single right thru with a single 1/4 inch Chanel in the back third thruster set up with PC 7 and custom nubsters in front overlapping the front PCs heaps of hold even in 2x head drivey but pivots on a dime i can do for custom$850 plus 50 postage I will get a pick of my new 5'4 stable table

Has anyone tried one of these? Looks like cheap copy of those FireWire potato thingies
www.thesurfboardwarehouse.com.au/vessel-eco-bean/