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.
