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Didn't you used to live on the Goldy BB ?
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why yes, I did mate.
Due to a coupla life changes I decided to come back home to retire.
Best thing Ive ever done.
the way cruisen was ripping at sick rivermouth this arvo he will be turning pro 
does he get cheap membership coz he is no 1?
its been a great day of waves and sup fun today with the river and park turning on some head high 10c waves. the famous 2mt was seen on the 9.6 psh demo board and screaming down the line
. the arvo paddle saw park come into play and i scored a coulpe of screamers on the psh myself. more to come tomorrow
PSH HULL 9'6" RIPPER DEMO TAKE No1
Caught up with Spencer walking his dog at dawn today
and he kindly invited me to demo the PSH HULL RIPPER.
I gladly accepted the invite, picked it up on the way around to the
Carlton River car park, wiped the frost off the board bag, dressed
in neo from head to toe, grasped my trusty Watersport TAS all bamboo
paddle and took to the surf.
I have no affiliations with board suppliers, am 86Kg but probably 94kg when wet and suited up. The Ripper seemed very similar to my own custom board as far as
flotation is concerned. My board has similar chines and is a bit shorter at 9'0".
But the Ripper has quite fine rails, deep and rounded in the bow sections and less tail flip .. looks are pleasing and balanced and fairly light in weight.
Launched in the flat water and paddled around a bit and felt confident with stability
and paddleability, so took off into the break.
The wind was cross/on and the swell setty, waste to chest high. Quite challenging
in the chop but the board worked out through the broken waves with ease.
Managed to catch a few meaningful waves but there were no clean and powerful
faces to get out onto and really test the performance attributes of the board.
Good aspects were: easy paddling and take offs and the speed down the line,
even is spite of the poor conditions.
Because of the straighter tail and slightly longer overall length there was a need
to weigh back a bit on the turns but to be fair if there were more wave power and
board speed I feel that rail turning would come into effect and the conditions
weren't good enough to even try.
As far as the basics are concerned I feel confident that, at my weight, I could
paddle it out onto a good break and catch waves fairly easily.
Am now looking forward to my second demo on this board in cleaner waves.
ITS BACK
the bank at the home of tassie sup has returned after being on hols
. myself and the famous 2mt scored head high sreamers running for 200 m.
i was on the hull rippers big brother the paddler and 2mt on his custom board.
lets hope the tassie super bank hangs around for our next sup comp, bop , bbq, very soon...
Thanks for that heads up Spencer.
Also a sunny day with a late NE seabreeze
These are classic summer conditions !!
but the big seasonal home truth is the H20 temp.
.... COLD ...
The back room boys are talking Spring COMP
Probably up the East Coast ... surf bop .. down wind.
Any feedback .. any early entries ... any suggestions/timing/venue/etc.
Also hoping to do an early SUMMER SURFARI to N and NW.
Do we have any support in those regions ?? if so let's hear it.
Would like to get us all together.
Good move TASSIE SUP
I'm in .. we should have most SUPpers on email now.
Haven't we ? ..
Apparently my new board arrived today- so looking forward to showing you ladies up at the next surf comp ' - and of course the bop race as well on my shiny nsp 12.6 (subtle hey)
BB
Well - looks like my tassiesup quiver is all but complete.
9.0 Mct
10.0 NSP
12.6 NSP
very happy little camper - cant wait to get the McT wet.
Ok mac - lemme have it !!!
Very big thank you to gsi for such a fast and friendly service - faultless.
My thoughts too DOGGIE. Come to think of it, it is probably the way he makes friends.
billboard how are the plans for riverider's big 50th birthday paddle then bbq get together? we could have a surf at the new and improved superbank then have a shandy and snag to celebrate
Hey GUYS keep it nice
Don't worry 2MT .. they won't do it again.
Spencer will bring along a few cartons of OFFTANGER
PILS and all will be forgiven .. OK ..
Why would anyone be drinking that foreign shlt when you have the best beer in the world 170 kms north of here ?????
