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bman76 said..thePup said..
middle one is interesting too cool tint
thanks gents - yeah that was a mandala quad. Got it real cheap and it was actually really good in big surf. Wished it was single or 2+1 - it was a lokbox set-up and the fins were a horror to set straight etc. Oh, and those boards are the tip of the ice-burg....
sweet,hope you post some more boards up
Select to expand quotebman76 said..Cuttlefish said..
Hey what about an AB pelagic series channel bottom?
I'm antsy to take my AB for a spin so might even take it for a paddle tomorrow at Tea tree.
Called my friend who will let the owner (Sean) of the 7'10" V bowls to give us some dims and pics.
Hopefully he'll register and respond on here.
If not I'll receive an email and post them myself.
Cuttlefish is right - i do have a 7'11 vbowls, 22 wide or so and 3 thick under the chest - but it foils out in the nose to half an inch. It's stringerless, so it has plenty of flex through turns and is quite light. This is not a hull. I've ridden hulls - and it is much more user friendly. I've had it just over a year and tend to ride it up to chest high or so. Like the vid suggests - you ride it from the tail, then the middle. I'm a small guy so i have managed a few cheater fives, but all the speed and trim comes from guts. It's a really fun board - and was my log substitute - but i'm itching to get back on the nose. The vbowls is in great condition with only a few minor bumps - no repairs or major damage. It also comes with an akali 9inch vbowls fin (made for the board). I'd be willing to swap for a noserider or log in similar condition - 9-9'4. I'm in NSW and south of Wollongong.
hate losing good pics when a new page starts
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Tip of the ice burg 
you have more.
Ok some more:
NPJ 6'0 2+1
5'7 quartet,
5'3 squail (previously shown)
5'6 MLV bonzer
5'6 bumblebee
6'3 russ short bonzer
5'8 octafish bonzer (this may hit the classifieds if anyone is interested - two months old!)
Few more around too, but will have to dig out the pics
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Now you're just rubbing it in...
Awesome quiver..
+1 
Select to expand quoteTed the Kiwi said...thedrip said..
You sound on a similar search to me. I have gone a little wider and a ****teenth (technical term) thicker than what you are looking at. I went wider to keep the curve in the outline. I saw a similar thing in southern NSW in November which got me thinking too. I don't want to surf bigger waves, just my maximum easier. And I will get more too.
My thoughts exactly. I can not wait to get my hands on something with that much volume - should make life a dream on those bigger /windier days. I have a certain place in mind for this board. Its been something I have been thinking about since August last year. I am happy to go wider - 21 and thicker as long as the rail has some shape.
I went from 20" to 22" - it was going to be 21" but the shaper said "I don't think 21 is too wide a board" which just made me reply with "What about 22 then?" - but I lost some volume in the rail. Not heaps, but enough to make them finer and knifier.
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You sound on a similar search to me. I have gone a little wider and a ****teenth (technical term) thicker than what you are looking at. I went wider to keep the curve in the outline. I saw a similar thing in southern NSW in November which got me thinking too. I don't want to surf bigger waves, just my maximum easier. And I will get more too.
My thoughts exactly. I can not wait to get my hands on something with that much volume - should make life a dream on those bigger /windier days. I have a certain place in mind for this board. Its been something I have been thinking about since August last year. I am happy to go wider - 21 and thicker as long as the rail has some shape.
I went from 20" to 22" - it was going to be 21" but the shaper said "I don't think 21 is too wide a board" which just made me reply with "What about 22 then?" - but I lost some volume in the rail. Not heaps, but enough to make them finer and knifier.
My two cents on this...depending on how big you are and where are going to surf I personally wouldn't go over 21 gun and I would'nt go over 20 wide until the gun got up over the 8'6 mark...don't get me wrong I love a wide board but have just found that there is to much surface area on a really wide board on a really big (For me ) wave and they get to hard to control...mind you when it gets big I only do one turn and thats to point the thing straight at the shoulder....after that its my best poo man stance while I mutter some prayers and prepare to hold my breath
The shape isn't really meant to be a gun. It's more a semi-gun. That's why I went wider. I have a full needle 7'8" NEV that I have caught my biggest waves on and it was inherently a board that went straight. I want this board to: get me in early at waves like Margies and Ellenbrook bombie; be turnable at 6 foot Farm (the once every three years it gets that big) and Injis; and run for the channel with the odd cutback at outside Mama Bears, big Babies, solid Yallingup. Mark seems pretty happy it will still be turnable in a big board/solid wave sort of way. Wave four times head high are about as big as I will be surfing, so solid without entering the realms of big. I have had an eight footer before that I loathed, so time will tell. I am a reasonably big unit too. 6'2" and 90 kgs. Tall and relatively lean, so I have had more volume than a lot of my friends for many many years. Not that I know much, but I think height affects board length and volume just as much as outright weight. My guess is it has something to do with fulcrums, pendulums and turning radiuses, but I am not a shaper and I only did physics until year 12.
And it's a single fun 2 and 1 so a slightly weird shape anyway.
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The shape isn't really meant to be a gun. It's more a semi-gun. That's why I went wider. I have a full needle 7'8" NEV that I have caught my biggest waves on and it was inherently a board that went straight. I want this board to: get me in early at waves like Margies and Ellenbrook bombie; be turnable at 6 foot Farm (the once every three years it gets that big) and Injis; and run for the channel with the odd cutback at outside Mama Bears, big Babies, solid Yallingup. Mark seems pretty happy it will still be turnable in a big board/solid wave sort of way. Wave four times head high are about as big as I will be surfing, so solid without entering the realms of big. I have had an eight footer before that I loathed, so time will tell. I am a reasonably big unit too. 6'2" and 90 kgs. Tall and relatively lean, so I have had more volume than a lot of my friends for many many years. Not that I know much, but I think height affects board length and volume just as much as outright weight. My guess is it has something to do with fulcrums, pendulums and turning radiuses, but I am not a shaper and I only did physics until year 12.
And it's a single fun 2 and 1 so a slightly weird shape anyway.
I like a nice singly for stuff like that...full wide point foward plane shape with a pin tail
That's the one. Singlies also let me justify my bog squat survival stance on retro style gestures. Or I can just stand tall and proud and pretend I am soul arching.
