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11’1

3 Hours Of mowing and this baby 11’1 was born, at 6:39pm on Monday, weighing 6.25kg (before glass), welcome to the family #Betty -HB [email protected]

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LF - 9′1 MINIGLIDER

Ze LongFish MiniG (LF - Longfish, not to be mistaken for LFT from Liarwire)

Based on my glider design and heavily influnced by the Frye and Mikey Meyer style longfishes but with a few of my own twists throw in the mix based on my own developments with all things glide. so the brief: i wanted something for a specific sand bottom point not too far a detour between home and the factory, my logs and gliders have been going really well at said point on smaller days and bigger (3ft) cleaner days, but i wanted something kinda in-between for dealing with crowds on those more classic days, something with glide capability and less fin, i had a perfect blank going spare for such an craft, a 9′7F from Burford with 9mm ply stringer with NR2 rocker, my current favourite LB blank and rocker combo (ideal world i would of custom ordered a tweaked version of the NR2 with a flatter tail rocker, but alas i’m impatient and with swell on the way im a man on a mission) -The flatness up front with the NR2 rocker is perfect for glide, (late drops are not the mission with this one..) and the belly and upturned rails up front help a bit with keeping things going like a submarine, the belly blends into a concave mid way with a vee double vee out the back end and of corse a nice chimed bottom rail (ala smooth mover style) to keep things nice and responsive! i ummed and arred for a long time over quad or twin, twin seemed like a good idea, but i just love quads and really wanted to try my speed dialler quad placement on a longer board like this and it made sense especially for longer down the line style waves i had in mind, so i disgarded my marine ply glass on vision and settled with the futures quad fin set up, ready for controller style fins, i must admit removable fins are not my favourite, i’m a real advocate of glass on fins, firstly they feel fucking great, secondly they feel fucking great and thirdly each set of glass ons i build specifically for that design so they compliment the shape and feel fucking great. the obvious draw back being the travel restrictions but thats something i can live with.. so for the sakes of experimentation and refining a new idea i settled for removable fins. side note: it is indeed heart breaking having to get the grinder out and sand off some fins on a finely glossed and polished board and then glassing a new set on, its almost like starting again. anyhow hopefuly some waves for a ride report soon.

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FRESH BATCH: Jacks CALI quiver

Here’s a quick batch of boards for Jack to take to California later this winter.

(L-R) we have 5′5 x 20 1/2 x 3 EDGE board, 5′6 x 19 x 2 1/4 WINKIPOPPA TWIN FIN & 6′8 x 21 x 2 3/4 YOLK.. All glassed too last with ‘earthy’ cut lap VOLAN tints on the bottom and double 4 decks with patches.. 5′5 EDGE board, i dont want too divulge too much info about this one as i’m going too write up a #Hbrockmanexperiments blog on it soon. the edge is a completely new concept for me, originally pioneered by George Greenough as a concept to help him surf weaker and less perfect/less crowded days on his beloved point breaks. quickly summed up it works by planing on the full outline  at low speeds and the inside concave/ouline at higher speeds.. 5′5 x 20 1/2 x 3, sounds very thick, but you loose a lot of the rail thickness in the edge so the rails can still be tuned quite nicely, some very cosmic stuff. 5′6 x 19 x 2 1/4 WINKIPOPPA TWIN, a little narrower and thinner than the usual stock dims i run, this ones set up for better days and waves, almost like a shortboard alternative, definitely with waves like Rincon in mind.. we have a set of Marine Ply hand foiled fins based on an MR style fin template, and i’ve put some FCS plugs set at 3′ up from the tail for a mini trailer fin. 6′6 x 21 x 2 3/4 YOLK, another to be featured on #hbrockmanexperiments essentially a finless with stabilisers, utulizing a similar kinda idea to the edge board but without the concave edgness and hard rails nose to tail. a definate experiment, made for lay down sliding or stand up, the mini keel fins to track when you stand on the tail and then to release once you hit the mid section and hopefuly catch on the other side of the spin.. more soon. -HB

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JANUARY/FEBRUARY IN PHOTOS

JANUARY/FEBRUARY IN PHOTOS - maybe New year in photos would of been a more appropriate title.. oh well. Here’s a couple of favourite photos over the last 6 1/2 weeks from our insta feed - @bossurfboards - Winter ain’t so bad, sure its been cold as shit, but the surf has pumped (from time to time), theres been a few days on the south coast at everyones favourite reef with select moments where i’m 100% convinced that there has NOT been a better breaking wave on the planet at that given moment in time.. Factory life has been busy, some renovations have been made, still some to go. the order books have been full and we’ve managed to get the first wave of boards in production for the new shop as well. exciting times none the less.. most the team have been away on winter travels to much much warmer climates, which has given me a good chance to work on some stuff with the grom squad.

JD deep in central america, toes to the nose on his trusty 9′6 Smooth Mover

DAMN! GC flaring out at his favourite beach.

GC deep inside everyones favourite south coast right hander.

me in my happy place.

George came to fix up some dings and play shop rat for the day.

Woody tucked right under and in the zone on a south coast drainer.

Jordans winter quiver having some down time

one of said few perfect south coast waves.

and another.

first week back in jan.

JD sitting where ya’ll wanna be.

new shop rat Jacob, learning the ropes with the ding repairs.

Chodo embracing some OZ lifestyle.

Kiefer at home in Wales, one of the places i’ve been wanting to go hang out for ages, but everytime its good up there its good at home.. 

Kai’s boards in NZ, still waiting for a trip to the brine.

Chodo going left in the land of rights.

these beauties should be in the new shop asap. we have a selection of Grim Rippers, Eastern Green Stars, a tracker or two and a Sun fish or two. more on the way.

and lastly my main man Seb, launching some southern hemisphere steeze on a winkipoppa in ‘pro’flexion construction. stay tuned for more. or follow our instaspam for (semi) daily updates and shots @bossurfboards -HB [email protected]

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F2 MODEL

F2 Model, one of my longest lasting models too date, i guess consistency is what keeps people coming back, its one of those templates you kinda know what to expect from it, the outline has a bit of curve but flows nose to tail for fast flowing surfing, a little extra width up front but nothing crazy (12 1/4″). the rocker is pretty much a medium both ends (2 3/8 / 4 3/4) with a little flick at the tips too keep things free, bottom wise I've kept that trusty single under front foot with a double between the fins and for 2018 i’ve added a very slight vee out behind the rear fin for a little extra zing. My favourite thing about the F2 is the wide range of tail shapes we can net on it, squash, swallow or rounded pin all come highly recommended, but any tail shape you can dream up will fit, only exception would be a wide swallow/double pin style tail..

fin wise, i fully recommend thruster set up if you want the board as more of a daily driver, use a more upright fin for shorter dumpier waves (Reactor/WCT), and a more raked out fin for longer walls (AM templates) the tri/quad is great if you want to surf faster hollower waves, for the F2 i stick closer to the Mckee style fin placement which is basically closer into the stringer, this is my favourite quad fin placement it has heaps of drive so great for long fast hollow walls. for quad set up use your regular fronts and try some smaller rears in bigger more hollow surf and larger fins in smaller hollow surf. Anyhow, here’s a few photos too lust after, board in question belongs to the new shop rat Jacob, ready for his upcoming trip to Indonesia, this is gonna be his daily driver board for surf 2-5ft, he has a winkipoppa for anything 1-3ft and a bit more tame and a tuberaider for anything 5ft+ (bit more about them another day) dimensions on the F2 are 5′8 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/4 @ 24.5L, swallow tail, team light glassing and futures thruster set up.

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JD / 9'6 SMOOTH MOVER - Deep In Central America.

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- EASTERN GREEN STAR -  A personal favourite too shape, ride and share with people, originally a full underground model for those in the know, its gained a lot of popularity, the plan shape is fairly easy going, in smaller sizes its a very rippable quad fin shortboard, in mid range sizes its a worthy step up and in longer sizes it functions well as a long fish which is epic as a midlength alternative. The main thing about the EGS that makes it so special for me is the fin set up, exclusively we only run these as quads using the ‘speed dialler’ style placement, which sets the rear fin right up behind the front fins, very fast and very drivey, its a fairly extreme looking placement and at first glance it looks wrong, very wrong, infact i thought my fin guy (Jimbo) fucked up big time when it came time to put fins in the OG one for jack.., In my experience if it dont look right usually is wont go right. Jack was stoked on his and got me excited to try one for myself, and from the first wave it felt very natural, fast like my twin fin but with a shit load more hold i can really push off the bottom or hold a really tight line in the tube, yet still relatively easy to navigate on rail. my new giulty pleasure, i have heaps of boards to ride but i keep coming back to the EGS. maybe you should try one too.. message me for me: [email protected]