I received solo's spitfire fin a few weeks ago, it really changed how my Potbelly goes in smaller surf. It makes it much more pivotable, yet still smooth like the Gullwing when on rail.
I received solo's spitfire fin a few weeks ago, it really changed how my Potbelly goes in smaller surf. It makes it much more pivotable, yet still smooth like the Gullwing when on rail.
Thank you for the confience Psychobilly...Keep me posted. Sorry it a took some time getting to you. That McCoy shot looks a lot like mine.
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I am with you on the three fins Tombstone , I just want to feel that my board is predictable..in a good way.. Hello to you Solo and trick looking fin Larry.
I am with you on the three fins Tombstone , I just want to feel that my board is predictable..in a good way.. Hello to you Solo and trick looking fin Larry.
cheers .
Thanks for the kind words my friend. Mahalo, Larry
How big is your nugget? I'd love to find a smaller one. Checked out a Lost Blunt today. 6'0" x 20 1/4x 2 7/8. It does have a full nose although the thickness does not carry forward. Couldn't make out the tail numbers. Even the color scheme is a nod to Geoff. The rails do get hard in front of the fins and the tail didn't seem to have the float a nugget would. I'm not about to experiment with it unless a cheap used one comes up. I've put up my Nugget for trade on craigslist for a smaller one. I've gotten emails about a straight sale, but that's not happening. I would rather deal with more board than I need than get rid of it.
That nugget is 6'7"x20x27/8" with the thruster set up, until recently i also had a 6'4" for smaller waves, even the smaller one liked a wave with a little power. Sounds like you could easily take a 18inches off that one and still have a board that picks waves easily and zips around the place, good luck on Craiglist hope something comes your way. I am have recently been trying the Astron Zot its 5'10"x22x3' and a single fin its very loose and zappy but can be a little tricky, so just keep it for little summer days. Keep in contact on your nugget search.
Just for the guys who were a party to the Astron Zot thread, I took a particular interest in that thread because I collect original McCoys with a passion and so I made a special trip to speak with Marc, the main guy from the McCoy showroom in Manly. Yes it was him on this forum and I believe him to be a highly credible source on all things McCoy. To the point where even I get bored listening to his encyclopepia of knowledge about Geoff and McCoy boards.
He doesnt usually get on the net nor any surf forum, and thats why I went down,(and took so many board pics that I posted on that thread), so I could pass on some pics of real McCoy shapes.
And finally Marc said he really enjoyed his time on Sways, wont come back, but he found the Sways guys to be really stoked on boards, design and McCoy boards.
Even tho the AZ thread got pulled,I'd like to add that Geoffs boards deserve a thread or a few ongoing threads just to deal with the uniqueness and complexity of his designs.
There are copies, but theres nothing like The REAL McCoy.
It would be interesting to see if some McCoy models worked better as a thruster or a single fin. I can see the merit in both for certain conditions and the drag talked about(or lack of) with the single to me is most noticeable when paddling (the thruster feels like you have weed caught on your leggy) in comparison. I would love to see other manufacturers interpretation's of the McCoy's as they are a contempory design and not really a retro design. Hell, if someone comes up with a better mousetrap I am on it. (keep my McCoys of course)
Your board looks to have more rocker than they do now Alaingiutars but I could be wrong, though 7'2" is too long for someone 5'5"-140 lbs I think. My 7'2" Zot looked like it was 6'6" in comparison with your photo's, yes look'ed'. Even in 4' surf you wished you had of brought another board as you were concentrating solely on the board and not the wave.
I have owned a Rodgers shaped McCoy it was to small for me but could have been your boards twin (I thought it was my old board till I saw the deck design). I have read somewhere (could have been on this site) that Rodgers boards had generally less volume and were shaped alittle more to like a modern short board. It was a thruster, and I had It out at Forries lefts (a local break) more than once and thiere was this one day when I was comparing it to the McTavish Fireball and the Wegner Model Z that I had at the time. I rode all three boards on the same day and when I was on the nugget I took off and this moron droped in on me and even though the board was very under sized for me I was able to pull around the section that the idiot had crumbled in frount of me pull off a kinda floater over the broken foam and pull around to the green and breaking section of the wave and catch up to the moron who was suprised to see me there carving and slashing away under the sholder of the wave. I soon after sold it (it was generally like riding in a boat with too much weight at the back (nose up and lean forward in small less powerfull surf) and I bought a custom single fin Nugget after talking to (emailing) Geoff. He designs boards (I belive,) to be a single fin where as I think that Rodgers was a great (but different) shaper for the Nugget as a common 'shortboard / Thruster'. And this is my 2 cents if Geoff or Marc suggests a board then go for it. Geoff is a shaper who understands more than I can comprehend on surfboard design if he says The single will work; it will. The Nuggets design is so fundimental that I think that for alot of the surfing general public (stepping off the modern junk) it will take a while for them to become an organic whole with the board. Take it slow and it will come. Unless the board is too short ect. I mean that huge shitty differances in how the board plains or reacts will be a red flag but if your riding the board and your thinking... this is different...stick with it it may teach you somthing. I took this no paddle drop on my single fin 8' 3" to day that blew my mind. So its horses for courses but with a patient mind.
I received solo's spitfire fin a few weeks ago, it really changed how my Potbelly goes in smaller surf. It makes it much more pivotable, yet still smooth like the Gullwing when on rail.
Thank you for the confience Psychobilly...Keep me posted. Sorry it a took some time getting to you. That McCoy shot looks a lot like mine.
The killers in high places say their prayers out loud
Here are the pics as promised
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Tombstone, that is a great photo.
I am with you on the three fins Tombstone , I just want to feel that my board is predictable..in a good way.. Hello to you Solo and trick looking fin Larry.
cheers .
Thanks for the kind words my friend. Mahalo, Larry
Tombstone,
How big is your nugget? I'd love to find a smaller one. Checked out a Lost Blunt today. 6'0" x 20 1/4x 2 7/8. It does have a full nose although the thickness does not carry forward. Couldn't make out the tail numbers. Even the color scheme is a nod to Geoff. The rails do get hard in front of the fins and the tail didn't seem to have the float a nugget would. I'm not about to experiment with it unless a cheap used one comes up. I've put up my Nugget for trade on craigslist for a smaller one. I've gotten emails about a straight sale, but that's not happening. I would rather deal with more board than I need than get rid of it.
Alainguitars
That nugget is 6'7"x20x27/8" with the thruster set up, until recently i also had a 6'4" for smaller waves, even the smaller one liked a wave with a little power. Sounds like you could easily take a 18inches off that one and still have a board that picks waves easily and zips around the place, good luck on Craiglist hope something comes your way. I am have recently been trying the Astron Zot its 5'10"x22x3' and a single fin its very loose and zappy but can be a little tricky, so just keep it for little summer days. Keep in contact on your nugget search.
Just for the guys who were a party to the Astron Zot thread, I took a particular interest in that thread because I collect original McCoys with a passion and so I made a special trip to speak with Marc, the main guy from the McCoy showroom in Manly. Yes it was him on this forum and I believe him to be a highly credible source on all things McCoy. To the point where even I get bored listening to his encyclopepia of knowledge about Geoff and McCoy boards.
He doesnt usually get on the net nor any surf forum, and thats why I went down,(and took so many board pics that I posted on that thread), so I could pass on some pics of real McCoy shapes.
And finally Marc said he really enjoyed his time on Sways, wont come back, but he found the Sways guys to be really stoked on boards, design and McCoy boards.
Even tho the AZ thread got pulled,I'd like to add that Geoffs boards deserve a thread or a few ongoing threads just to deal with the uniqueness and complexity of his designs.
There are copies, but theres nothing like The REAL McCoy.
It would be interesting to see if some McCoy models worked better as a thruster or a single fin. I can see the merit in both for certain conditions and the drag talked about(or lack of) with the single to me is most noticeable when paddling (the thruster feels like you have weed caught on your leggy) in comparison. I would love to see other manufacturers interpretation's of the McCoy's as they are a contempory design and not really a retro design. Hell, if someone comes up with a better mousetrap I am on it. (keep my McCoys of course)
Your board looks to have more rocker than they do now Alaingiutars but I could be wrong, though 7'2" is too long for someone 5'5"-140 lbs I think. My 7'2" Zot looked like it was 6'6" in comparison with your photo's, yes look'ed'. Even in 4' surf you wished you had of brought another board as you were concentrating solely on the board and not the wave.
Alainguitars,
I have owned a Rodgers shaped McCoy it was to small for me but could have been your boards twin (I thought it was my old board till I saw the deck design). I have read somewhere (could have been on this site) that Rodgers boards had generally less volume and were shaped alittle more to like a modern short board. It was a thruster, and I had It out at Forries lefts (a local break) more than once and thiere was this one day when I was comparing it to the McTavish Fireball and the Wegner Model Z that I had at the time. I rode all three boards on the same day and when I was on the nugget I took off and this moron droped in on me and even though the board was very under sized for me I was able to pull around the section that the idiot had crumbled in frount of me pull off a kinda floater over the broken foam and pull around to the green and breaking section of the wave and catch up to the moron who was suprised to see me there carving and slashing away under the sholder of the wave. I soon after sold it (it was generally like riding in a boat with too much weight at the back (nose up and lean forward in small less powerfull surf) and I bought a custom single fin Nugget after talking to (emailing) Geoff. He designs boards (I belive,) to be a single fin where as I think that Rodgers was a great (but different) shaper for the Nugget as a common 'shortboard / Thruster'. And this is my 2 cents if Geoff or Marc suggests a board then go for it. Geoff is a shaper who understands more than I can comprehend on surfboard design if he says The single will work; it will. The Nuggets design is so fundimental that I think that for alot of the surfing general public (stepping off the modern junk) it will take a while for them to become an organic whole with the board. Take it slow and it will come. Unless the board is too short ect. I mean that huge shitty differances in how the board plains or reacts will be a red flag but if your riding the board and your thinking... this is different...stick with it it may teach you somthing. I took this no paddle drop on my single fin 8' 3" to day that blew my mind. So its horses for courses but with a patient mind.
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