Awesome looking board mate!

9'6"x22x3 1/4

A paltry 78 litres I believe. By Mark Ogram.

I'm not as manly as Greenroom and this is more my 8-10 board.

I have another one if similar dimensions coming.

Go big.

Yewwww!

Greenroom said...
Yeah yours is a sick board Dripsta I could have easily gone 22 wide. Oggy shapes some really nice looking boards.
Rosie is on the money and has listened to what I want to get out of a big board. My last gun he made for me was 9 x 20 x 3. Good for getting in the zone and carving some serious lines but with my continuous neck and back pain I needed something easier to paddle.
Just like my shortboard at 6'6 x 22 1/4 x 3 with 48 litres it's all about wave count.

That shortboard sounds like my sort of dimensions.

You need a gun for waves like these:




My 6'10 didn't work that well last Friday.

Wow!

Looks like solid bears with a fair bit of south in the swell . Probably wrong but love it when it breaks like that

What size did you finish up getting?

4.5 litres isn't that much. The extra length will help immeasurably.

Hope you get a chance to give it a run soon.

You will love it in the solid stuff. The extra length sort of helps "tip" you in.

Take it out a few times in smaller stuff (obviously not the tiny stuff) too to get used to it. You never want to pull a gun and not feel comfortable paddling around and surfing it. Lots of guys will get a gun, wait till its huge then wonder why the "miracle" board isn't feeling right. I reckon the secret is to sort out your foot placement, weighting and all the little nuances of surfing a board BEFORE its huge. Get that comfortability with it.

My two cents worth anyway.

Good advice from Drip there - you definitely need to sacrifice a few surfs with the new board so when its on you are well prepared and feeling confident. Nothing worse when you are not

Yep - been caught out once - that was enough to learn a valuable lesson Nothing worse than wasting great waves and getting smashed ! You need to feel comfortable on your equipment when you are feeling uncomfortable in the ocean

Personally, I think there has to be some sort of vee across the tail. Single concaves are not meant for guns. The board you saw may have been a big small wave board?

My eight footer has a bit of concave (like maybe two mm) of concave in the belly before running to a panel vee through the tail.

With the 9'6" I have a little bit of nose vee - pretty common in big guns to part the chop - into a flat into a slightly rolled vee instead of the panel vee through the tail.

My 7'2" gun has a single concave nose, into flat, into a vee with a double concave through it.

There are lots of different bottoms that work, but reputable, experienced shapers are a must for me when I order a gun. Vee is a tried and proven bottom in all sorts of big wave big boards.

I have two more on the way too.

Yeah I think your right. The board was second hand good price right dimensions but the bottom looked a bit wrong for me. I ordered a PE should pick it up in 12 months

beastsurf said...
Yeah I think your right. The board was second hand good price right dimensions but the bottom looked a bit wrong for me. I ordered a PE should pick it up in 12 months

Tom is doing the two boards I mentioned previously. He does great guns and you won't go wrong with him there. Have you had boards off him before?

I know a couple of blokes who are waiting for Tom to finish their boards

Hey Beastsurf, don't be afraid to go wider and thicker
21 wide and 3 5/8 thick?
Where would you use it?

What are you doing tomorrow Drip? Feeling up for a paddle?