2013 quatro 8'6

I am 82kg 5'10 and used to ride a fanatic all wave. great board for junk but wanted something looser. Got this baby, and from the first wave was pure love. it is 30' wide and 128l but with a dome deck feels smaller. It has a lot of rocker so no issues dropping late and when you step on the tail you can trough it around; it feels amazing, super fast and loose. I was going to keep the allwave for small junk, but this thing somehow goes really well in those condition too, it is actually great fun...it is a great allround board
Super light, I think it looks good and not sure about durability but they are all made in Cobra, so it should be good.
Comes with 5 fcs inserts, tried it as a quad and didnt like it, IMO it goes a lot better as a thruster, I am using large Nexus fins.
hope this helps someone looking for a great allround wave board

Quattro makes pretty things, just saying

Yep, nice board!

I've been riding the 8.6 since last September at 90 kgs plus 5 mm wetsuit, boots, gloves, etc. It's VERY floaty at my weight. In fact, I'd love to see 10-15 L shaved off with a flatter deck to reduce the corkiness. I've surfed it with tons of different fin set ups (twin, thruster, tri, quad) and settled on a small quad set for balanced looseness and speed.On larger waves the thruster set up is sweet. The stock fins are worth upgrading from. The nose width appears to be very wide and invites paddle strikes into a pretty thin and egg-shelly skin (cracks very easily into the carbon and foam underneath). While the board is pretty light, it could be more durable (Quatro production sailboards are better in this regard). The rails scuff very easily and turn black underneath the thin blue paint.

From a surfing perspective, the bottom turn on this board is sweet: very grippy and secure even at higher riding speeds. The board seems to generate speed pretty well. Off the top I feel it could be looser (a bit more rocker would be sweet). All in all it's a very nice board, but the surface coating needs to be beefed up. A narrower nose and more pulled in tail would be good to see as well. It's a great first shorter SUP with solid performance, but compared to a carbon 8.5 Starby Pro for example, it falls just a little bit short in performance, weight, and durability (it's not nearly as expensive however).

The big surprise for me was SUP sailing it. It was very loose on a wave compared to other SUPs I've windsurfed which made it very fun.

This is Quatro's first shorter, higher performance production SUP, and they are releasing some other sub-8.6 more aggressive, higher performance models this year. Hoping to ride one soon!

Quad: FCS GX-Q rears, FCS PC3 Small front fins. Still loose and fast. Using only the GX-Q rears as a twin was fun too...

I picked up one in Maui last month and love it. SUP-ed at Lanes, Sprecks, thousands peaks and kihei from 2-5 foot. Used it in thruster mode with MFC fins. I left it in Maui but will eventually try it in Quad mode later in the year. Interested to see how it goes in Sydney beach breaks.

Robbo, here is video of the board in small bondi junk windswell...

... trapped in hookipas inside with a 128l board as a necklace it is not my idea of fun...