Mate I'm 32 and I ride a 6'6 by 21 1/2" x 2 3/8" single to double concave rounded pin for the 0-4ft days and 7'0 x 21 1/2 x 2 3/8" single to double rtounded square for the 6 - 10 ft days....ones a Full Circle from Phillip Island (forgot the shapers name) and the other in by Ringa of Ilsand surfboards....both are sweet...have also got good reports from mates on Mark Phipps Kong Model boards

hey tux....does the 21 1/2 make a big difference to the handling of the board

wtf spot
only weigh 70 kg.....

surfsky said...

hey tux....does the 21 1/2 make a big difference to the handling of the board

Nah mate...I prefer adding width instead of thickness..I used to ride 18 1/2"'s by 2 3/4".....width is heaps better than thickness you get a better rail shap IMO without rolling the deck out too much...Derek Hynd wrote a fantatstic article about this sort of stuff in Surfer about ten years ago...bottom contours on wider boards are super important as well....

fish!

tux is on the money, wider before thicker everytime...

18" is a way narrow board, you could go out to easily 19-1/2" without destroying plane shape and still keep your percieved performance, i reckon you'll blow out at how stable and forgiving it would become and would be that much easier to paddle, that all thoughts you've been having about giving up on real surfing and buying a mal would instantly evaporate.

as DL says a fish would probably be even better (or you could really hate your self and go epoxy, those things paddle better to comparable poly in size)

theDoctor said...
as DL says a fish would probably be even better (or you could really hate your self and go epoxy, those things paddle better to comparable poly in size)

Retro single fin....... come on any takers bar me?

I found a guy on the Northern Beaches that does Custom EPS/epoxy boards - died and went to heaven