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13 Oct 2026 4:10pm
Prelucar said..
I’ve also seen posts on this forum saying that putting a larger fin on a freestyle board isn’t a good idea.



Only as it kills the freestyle ability. For blasting the bigger fin is exactly what you want as freestyle boards are deliberately very underfinned to get them to slide, and fin to not catch the water in spinny jumps. Their flat rocker is just like a freeride board.
A FSW has nothing to do with freestyle really, its a fast rockered waveboard or a detuned freeride with more tail rocker so it turns OK on waves.

I'm basing this partly on you using an old freestyle board - some modern freestyles are so specialised that whilst they plane up really fast they don't have the vee up front to handle fast over chop = as they are just get up quick then bust out a move. Not designed for comfort fast over chop for obvious reasons.

I guarantee that board will feel great with something like a MFC freewave or liquid pro, 30-34cm ish, and that 6.6.
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13 Oct 2026 11:52am
Agreed. The sail is not too big and a freestyle board has a freeride rocker essentially. But that tiny fin will be horrible it’s not designed at all for the lateral loading of freeride sailing. It’s designed for the exact opposite - so go bigger.
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11 Oct 2026 5:48pm
jn1 said..
Wasn't Donald Trump meant to get that ?


Nah he already got his with somebody else crossed out and his name in Artline pen 😂
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11 Oct 2026 5:44pm
My only idea is - don't discount TD motors with good maintenance. Just bought a 2014 VW T5 2l turbo (after lots of research.)
My first 1000km of city driving (not freeway, lots of traffic lights and 50-70kph) has been 7L/100km - $250 for 1000km. Not bad at all for around town. Highway must be great!
But don't do it without lots of thought, eg: the Merc Vito is great but there was a couple of years with a good motor that goes forever, then a few with a motor like a grenade, then a good motor with ridiculous service costs as they inexplicably moved timing belt to the rear which makes a $1500 job a $4K proposition, some years the gearboxes are fragile blah blah. All got too hard.

If not used for actual camping I'd suggest also a Kia Carnival - drives like a car, luxury if u need and about the only van where u can remove one row of seats lengthwise to get both the kids behind the passenger and all your gear along the RHS behind the driver.

Mark _australia
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6 Oct 2026 4:35pm
Dude the difference over 10m is about a knot or two.
You are not feeling 4cm

Windshear calculators avail online. Yes there is a greater difference between water level and 4m up, than say 10m vs 14m. . Yes having more sail above waves is great. But if it made that much difference we'd see speed sailors arguing over recessed decks vs actual data for speed - and we don't.

I still call BS
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5 Oct 2026 5:27pm
Subsonic said..
So im having scrambled eggs on toast (with chorizo) for dinner tonite, but i’m making two pieces of toast. Thought i’d check in here,

what should i have on my second piece of toast, vegemite? Or strawberry jam?


Recently discovered this. Fried chorizo is nuts good with scrambled eggs. Dunno if I’ll ever go back to bacon with it. How did I not know this!


smear of avocado over the Vegemite mate.
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5 Oct 2026 12:36pm
Gonna name that one the douche and dance then…?
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5 Oct 2026 12:33pm
It’s not the salt water it’s the fact that carbon and aluminium are about as far apart on the galvanic table as u can get. They should never ever touch. So foils designed for ally masts had some glass at the junction. Just a bit.
full carbon systems may or may not so you’re taking a risk with an adapter. Not a big issue as it’s only touching when in use, I’d just be religious with disassembling and inspection of all fittings, even ones elsewhere on the board. EG I’ve seen a stick on shark repellent system cause full thickness corrosion in fin bolts on longboards
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4 Oct 2026 8:31am
Roll it up and it’s not too big for AusPost

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3 Oct 2026 11:46am
What a load of crap. Right to protest does not exist at your paid employment.
if ya mates knew Epstein it’s irrelevant.


this whole thread is typical of the polarised view from social media sources only. Rise above your feed (that’s aimed at both sides of this debate)

unless any of you are actually privy to the contractual agreements in that situation? Or have actually spoken to people from both sides of that horrid conflict that’s murdering innocents? Both sides. The enemy is hate. Not Jews or Muslims
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3 Oct 2026 11:39am
How good were these repairs and who did them? I’d suggest if a repair was so poorly done as to let water in you’d see it.
I’d check fin boxes and handle first
plus all leash plugs leak just by virtue of their design so if not put in properly in a styro board you’re asking for trouble.


where are u? I think WA right….? If so come in and see me

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3 Oct 2026 11:34am
You couldn’t find anything at the Standup Shop? Their bags are good
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2 Oct 2026 5:08pm
They’re very common may I suggest you Google?
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2 Oct 2026 12:10pm
Manuel7 said..
On my old sails, especially on my smaller one (4.2) I like to have it set a little higher to catch more wind up top. Modern sails don't matter as much. It's nice to have it close to the deck but not a necessity.



You reckon if you set the sail to be 4cm higher you can actually feel it? Yeah the wind is stronger up there … but 4cm? Nope
You’re having a lend surely….
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2 Oct 2026 10:55am
I thought it was same as Tuttle just shallow. Stick a Tuttle in and see …..?
if so it’s US designed originally and it’s just 5/8” and the front n rear angles are easy to find there’s diagrams all over the web
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2 Oct 2026 7:33am
Def glass over the fluff

make sure it’s perfectly shaped though, else when u re sand it you’ll find the high points, break thru your glass and then you’re back to the fluffing up.
go about 3x 4oz to be sure.


its fun ….. 🙄
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30 Sep 2026 6:57pm
If that’s the case, they are not built right. If water is getting in, it is constructed like a normal sandwich board but with no EPS. A hollow board should be fibre each side of a nomex honeycomb.


as I said before we’ve seen all this with every new sport trying to just bust out something different just to get market share. It’s not always good if not done right. BTDT

then said it many times, goretex isn’t great. Been doing this for decades and I can tell u there’s so much crap and marketing spin



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30 Sep 2026 9:01am
beached57 said..
banning shark fishing close to, or from, shore makes sense to me. it's obviously bringing in the sharks closer to the people and having those steel-like lines out there presents a problem to both those in the water and boats going by.


sorry I refered to them stopping g commercial fishing for sharks years ago so now numbers are higher


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30 Sep 2026 8:56am
Spot on Brent. It’s a bit rude and I’m struggling to think of anything with 40mm tuck.
further - soft up front means what exactly? There’s board with plenty of tuck and quite a hard edge and others with a rounded edge at the bottom - both work. Big concave at front to a hard edge creates awesome bottom turn hold
it’s the vibe.
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29 Sep 2026 12:19pm
Perth has also had the ex boss of the Fisheries dept say the govt is lying about GW numbers to play it down lots.


pretty simple math to me.


Ban shark fishing
Allow boats to attract them in for tourists
More folks getting in the water at the beach.
Result? Duh

we can control the first two but choose not to.



if you’re a water person you NEED to know this:

www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-24/anu-shark-bite-new-life-saving-technique-fist-in-groin-area/100488934

but unfortunately the whole campaign was ignored for a handful of tourniquet locations
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23 Sep 2026 11:56am
OK then I’ll go if nobody else.
amazing amazing wave riding ability but it’s best to try and not use it much if you’re seeking longevity.
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21 Sep 2026 11:45am
Fake pic. No shaping room looks like that


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20 Sep 2026 7:23am
Very easy as the honeycomb is thick so in most cases you only have to fill the damaged cells and re-lam outer skin.


but if it’s major all the way thru large hole (rare, it’s pretty hard to do that) then you need to make a new section of moulded honeycomb with both skins and that is not easy. Thus why you don’t take them to surf guys who never moved on from polyester lol

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18 Sep 2026 6:55am
Depends if its built properly with a honeycomb sandwich (so the skin contains air cells) or if they have just used a PVC core for the shell
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17 Sep 2026 12:26pm
The vertical wiggle has separated ones that all the experts failed at with their booms and special hitches etc
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15 Sep 2026 12:18pm
bc said..
I send about 5 cartons a week with them and have had only 2 in the six months that have had extra charges added , but I always add a bit to the dimensions.. Their prices have gone up recently so I thought I would get some quotes from other comapines. Fed/tnt said $69 surcharge for anything over 1.2 m and another $65 if receiver isn't a company Startrack said they are no longer exceping oversize cartons at all, and I am waiting to here back from Direrct Frieght.. I Know EGO is by no means perfect but options are becoming limited for sails/masts/boards ....


When did StarTrack tell u that? I sent a wave board WA to QLD three weeks ago (using Smart Send and best price was StarTrack )
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14 Sep 2026 11:46am
Smart Send.


I got fed up with not bring able to get a real person at e-go and as you discovered just poor comms in general. Smart send appears to be a little family deal and you get an actual person
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13 Sep 2026 5:39pm
I gave up watching after 2 mins due to so many technical / construction fallacies in that narrative.


but yeah it’s not new and why did windsurfing have a brief phase of hollow boards and it didn’t last…? I suggest it is largely just companies trying to get market share in a booming sport (winging) by making anything different and ‘better’ that they can think of. Regardless of if it actually is….
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8 Sep 2026 12:03pm
Sounds like you know exactly what you want so given where u live, go custom. So many good choices, I’d go see Keith Taboul and you’ll have an amazing durable sandwich board not patchy quality from Cobra.
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7 Sep 2026 4:44pm
^^^ Dunno about suitability, but in that age range, Naish winGfoil had self-destructing tracks so I wouldn't.