How about a few quiver shots. What are you riding? Dimensions, fin setup, shaper... Do Tell!

This is my go to surf SUP, not super easy to paddle, but it shreds. 7'11x29x4.5/8 Infinity Blurr


This is my back up for when it's choppy or super small. 8'5x30x4.5/8 Infinity TL

Starboard's 8-2 and 8-10 Wide Point Brushed Carbon. Great for our East Coast waves. Supports my solid 195 # frame and is stable but maneuverable in the surf.. The 8-2 as a truster( I added a FCS fusion center box) and the 8-10 as a 2+1 fin set up ...

Going for a full quiver shot this weekend sometime... but for now, here are my two favorite flavors:

The Corran Addison TimSUP aka Retro... (or as I call it "F'ing Retro") ... a Simmons inspired 7'3" by 28.5 by 4 SUP... SICK, SICK, SICK! I saw what Kirk McGinty was doing at L41 in Santa Cruz and wanted to try one... with a domed deck, slight concave under the nose and a little flip in the tip. Great for small waves... unbelievable in small waves... but I had it out at a secret spot reef today and it KILLED in 3-5 foot chunks.

The Roger Hinds Mach Twin. An 8'2" by 26.5 by 3 7/8 twin... based on an old MR / Bill Stewart type 1982 twin fin... but blown up for SUP... with custom Twin Fins by Larry Allison!

Nice pics guys. I'm a sucker for quiver photos and performance reports - trying to figure out which way to jump for my next board.

Giant - I've been intrigued by the Blurr for awhile. Very nice.

GJB - which one of those Starboards do you find you reach for the most? Also curious about the other dims?

SL - a full quiver shot would be very cool - especially if you included a description of which board you'd currently pull out for which conditions!

GB

Will do Glenn. Corran just shaped a 117 liter TimSUP demo... u need to try it before u decide, mind blowing, versatile, and stable!

SL

Nice boards!

SL, what's the volume on your TimSUP? I forget, I know it's sub 100, right? 117 seems kind of high for that shape but is that so a wide range of people can demo it with success?

KDog,

Mine is 97-98 liters. The demo is aimed at the guy without the super balance skills, or the larger dude. I am just north of 190 these days. My 210 pound friend went nuts over it.

SL

Strand,
How does the nubster on the twin fin work in the set up? Does it make it ride different than a normal twin would? I'm loving your new Fing retro gear!!!!!!

Glenn B .....The 8-2 I grab or go for the most. The detentions for the 8-2 is 32 wide and just under 4.1/2 thick at 130 L Floats me well and is stable. weighs 14.8 lbs without fins and deck pad. Now with the pad and fins its 16.3 lbs......
The 8-10 is also 32 wide and 4 1/4 thick . at 143 L.. Super stable especially in chop. The wide point is forward of center and has a pulled in tail allowing the board to be really maneuverable. You can go to the starboard site for specific dems..

Rushing to post my modest "quiver" before Strand Leper posts his - and shows what a real quiver looks like.

Love my Ron House's. Both hand shaped; both ride like a dream . . . in much different ways.

11'0 X 29 X 4 3/4
9'2" X 29 1/2 X 4 1/4

GJB - Thanks for the dims. Very nice photos!

Glenn,

I LOVE your House swallow tail! That looks SOOO sweet!

As to my quiver... yes, it is a sickness... it is about to get sicker.

SL

Glen B and Strand Lepper - you need to cligk on "insert" next to the photo upload to get the photo to post IN the threat rather than as an attachment.

Corran

Thanks Corran.

Hopefully this works better - showing the Ron House swallow-tail in action.

Me and the seagull, having similar thoughts . . .

Fark wrote: Strand,
How does the nubster on the twin fin work in the set up? Does it make it ride different than a normal twin would? I'm loving your new Fing retro gear!!!!!!

My first wave on the Mach Twin was a WELL overhead set wave... I would call it the biggest wave of the morning... I will let others confirm, deny, or ignore... super smooth takeoff... planed right into the wave, pivot under the lip... pump... roundhouse... speed turns and burns all the way to the beach. Was not sure how hard I could push the board... and didn't want to blow it... but it was fast and had DRIVE like crazy...

That was with the nubster in. It is a little too sticky with the nubster in quite frankly. I went to take the nubster out, and the glasser stripped one of the hex bolts for the nubster... so I got a little screwed. I am going to drill out that hex bolt tonight or tomorrow.

SL

I wondered if it would take away from that twinnie feel, but who am I to second guess Larry.

Fark,

It does take away from the twinny feel big time. With the nubber in the board felt like a super fast, stiff thruster... (stiff because the fins are so far back).

Stoked that he put the box in, though... as the board is so stable and fast, that it could conceivably be a REALLY big wave board.

SL

There are the two board i surf the most on:
6'8x29.5'4.25"
and
8'0x27x3.75" Imagine/Corran

i also have a 9'0 x28" Ron House, 11' Chinese brand, i call it Green Monster(cause it weight 30+ lb) and 9'0 SupLove Mach1. All of those all loaner for friends cause they are great learner board.

I have Junior dropping by this weekend and my Mach Bobby Roger is back from the repair person par excellence Molly Logan over off of Edwards. (Molly Logan Surfboards). Maybe I can con him into standing on the roof to take a cool quiver pic ala surfline?

... boards arrayed akimbo, dimensions... nice descriptions of the conditions for each... I will try to make sure that my hair is arranged in a "devil may care" fashion as well.

SL

Ucycle,

That Imagine is SICK! I remember when I rode that at Oceanside... I didn't want to give it back.

SL

Strand Leper wrote: KDog,

Mine is 97-98 liters. The demo is aimed at the guy without the super balance skills, or the larger dude. I am just north of 190 these days. My 210 pound friend went nuts over it.

SL

While I know that SL has a bunch of friends, and I know of a couple of them that match that description....the first time I was out on that demo with all of my "210 pound" self....as soon as I got out of the water with it, I texted Corran, and ordered one then and there.

Talked with Corran wrt possibly going smaller and reducing the volume a tad, since it's a bit more than the board(s) I'm currently riding and comfortable on....but after having him see me paddle it around a bit, and how it sat in the water with me just standing on it....and also how, and where I planned on surfing it the majority of the time....

It was determined that we were getting near the point of "dimensioning returns" in picking up only a little bit more "surfability" vs. the loss of stability in the more chop/slop conditions that we often end up with.

IOW's, I had a stinking blast on the 7'8"x30"x4.3"x119 liters in various conditions that I had it out in on a couple occasions, so why "Fart" with it, and potentially come up with something that I might end up not as happy on (unfortunately, "been there, done that" with another couple boards, and can't afford to keep paying for my "experiments).

Hopefully I'll have it in another couple weeks.....Corran?