I bought a Lost..xLIB PJ when they 1st came out. Surfed it for about a year and a half and then sold it to a Bender who was going to use it on the river wave. Only sold it because I just wanted something new and had beat it up including dinging it, yes they do ding in some circumstances mine being a landing on a barnacle encrusted rock trying to float a section over it which I had done several time prior. Deck also dented in pretty good, but the board was so fast and light I was finding myself popping more credit cards airs than usual.
Board surfed Oregon and greater PNW waves great. The March I had in the rotation the Cove right was set up as good as it gets with that inside black water little tuber section. It lit up there from battling the usual LBers to catching it and getting in to cutting back and maintaining speed through the fat mushy mid-section to setting up and threading the inside ramp that was throwing some quick cover ups or providing a good lip for some grindage. Surfed the other and not so lined up beach breaks quite well and handled some size too. It would occasionally wash out on engaged turns, but was pretty responsive and loved tight quick little pocket snaps like you might find on the lefts at Shorites. I tended to like it set up as a quad. So all and all a pretty good all-around board leaning toward smaller to mid-range surf with excellent durability.
It was the original LIB Tech build before the black stringer….. super light and durable as well as pretty corky. Their tech is def more buoyant than poly and even more so than standard EPS which is also more buoyant than poly. So keep that in mind when sizing, but with the PJ model that extra float was not an issue where the Short Round another Lib lost I had, it was not so good. Since then they have changed their tech as people complained it was to light and corky. When I bought my most recent board this spring I went in to Gorge to check out the PJHP, but it felt heavy to me. I guess every boards weight and flex can have some variation, but if you could find an older one for sale used with a wood stringer…….
This new model currently has my eye and once they introduce Future boxes, which is apparently soon I’ll defiantly always have LIB board in the quiver.
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