by Major Lazer » Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:46 am
Yah its basically a similar outline and design to the CI Mid. Art at North Pacific has refined his traditional speed egg template and is making something similar for a fair bit cheaper and no bro-brah-bro-down bottle necks during the glassing process doing only his own shapes in house. Turn around was about 5 weeks and mine is custom a 2+4 giving it a quad option, but a few of them showed up on the racks at at Gorge around the same time.
I've always had 7'ish eggy funboard in the quiver, but they were 90's early 2G's relics I inherited from friends. The last one yellowed and pretty dead flex wise. Although it was nicely foiled it seemed to have a rocker profile of a big guy shortboard, what my friend used this board for before he threw in the towel and quit surfing. Anyways the board just did not catch waves well considering the volume and although it was fairly response and could hack a lip, it required a bit of input to get down the line and just didn't have the built in glide, which is the 1st thing I noticed with the new board.
New stick appears to have a little chinne in the nose and just up front, which is new to me and perhaps a bit of a speed maker. At 2 7/8 thick its easily the thickest board I own and prob would of asked for 2 1/2 but I left all that up to Art sans length which I set at 7'1". Although thick, its nicely foiled as I requested and domed making for a real nice rail that is not chunky at all. Tail is refined and thinned, another request I made giving it that magic of the top and responsiveness. I do not like thick chunky tails in any of my boards. Rocker wise I believe its continuous yet mellow and bottom goes from flat entry to mellow single with a V starting 6" to 8"s in front of the side bites. Being able to duckdive this board was another consideration, and I envisioned less foam honestly, but the board is just in that realm.
Anyways I think the design incorporates important attributes that were not present in my previous fun boards. Attributes from longboards, like the chinned rails to modern foil and bottom contours. 1st sesh had some swell yet was still summery with a weak push. this beach usually has punch to it and it did on the inside, but was nice to have the extra foam to get into the outside peaks where the other guy on a SB or CI fish beard was having issues. We will see how it goes down at Sands. I'm dreaming of soul arches and long drawn out gut back in front of the frothy snakey boys of summer.
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