Are ocean critters any good?? For $1200 odd you get board , paddle and bag...seems like a good deal. .I know its not naish, jp, or starboard.what does the forum think

Thanks tightlines..looked at some brand-new JPs (carbon) boards they are $2000 no paddle no leash no bag..but does include fins seems a lot for just a big surfboard.

sargeacr said..
Are ocean critters any good?? For $1200 odd you get board , paddle and bag...seems like a good deal. .I know its not naish, jp, or starboard.what does the forum think

Hi Sargeacr

Just a little info on the Ocean Critters brand for you any else anyone interested.

We are a West Australian family run business, our boards are designed and tested here in W.A. We do not buy generic factory shapes supplied by the Chinese factories, we spend hours designing them with a computer program to make sure we know that what we get will work. We "tweak" the boards every order to make improvements.
We are very passionate at what we do. I guess that's the reason we have survived for three years as a smaller player. Its not easy

We have been dealing with Asian factories for over 3 years now and know for a fact that quite a few of the "big" brands have moved operations or parts of production to China.

Most of the gear we produce is entry to intermediate level, we explain this to our customers and have never pushed our boards as super high performance high end boards. Having said that we have had some good feedback from guys that have specifically bought the boards for the surf

In the early days we did have a few construction issues, but have addressed these and upgraded with every order to get the boards to a point we are happy with.
All our boards are now wood sandwich epoxy/fiberglass with bamboo deck.

A lot of positive feedback has been received from our customers. If your on a budget and after a kit to get you out there and do most things then we may be able to help.

As for the re-sale comments. I agree to a point but I think its all pretty relevant.

Buy one of our boards for $900 sell a year later for $500 - $600. Loss of $300 (well you cant classify it as a loss because you've had hours of fun :) )
Buy a big name for $1600 and sell a year later for $1100 - $1200

Give us a call or drop in some day. I could talk about surfboards all day!!

Cheers

Thanks Captainkaos...some good info there..will definetly get up for a visit!

captainkaos said..

sargeacr said..
Are ocean critters any good?? For $1200 odd you get board , paddle and bag...seems like a good deal. .I know its not naish, jp, or starboard.what does the forum think

Hi Sargeacr

Just a little info on the Ocean Critters brand for you any else anyone interested.

We are a West Australian family run business, our boards are designed and tested here in W.A. We do not buy generic factory shapes supplied by the Chinese factories, we spend hours designing them with a computer program to make sure we know that what we get will work. We "tweak" the boards every order to make improvements.
We are very passionate at what we do. I guess that's the reason we have survived for three years as a smaller player. Its not easy

We have been dealing with Asian factories for over 3 years now and know for a fact that quite a few of the "big" brands have moved operations or parts of production to China.

Most of the gear we produce is entry to intermediate level, we explain this to our customers and have never pushed our boards as super high performance high end boards. Having said that we have had some good feedback from guys that have specifically bought the boards for the surf

In the early days we did have a few construction issues, but have addressed these and upgraded with every order to get the boards to a point we are happy with.
All our boards are now wood sandwich epoxy/fiberglass with bamboo deck.

A lot of positive feedback has been received from our customers. If your on a budget and after a kit to get you out there and do most things then we may be able to help.

As for the re-sale comments. I agree to a point but I think its all pretty relevant.

Buy one of our boards for $900 sell a year later for $500 - $600. Loss of $300 (well you cant classify it as a loss because you've had hours of fun :) )
Buy a big name for $1600 and sell a year later for $1100 - $1200

Give us a call or drop in some day. I could talk about surfboards all day!!

Cheers

It certainly does get confusing with all the "cheap" sups on the market at the moment. I bought a very cheap and not so nasty one to get me back into surfing - and its absolutely fine for the moment. I have no expectations on resale, nor on it being the best I could get....but I am already researching mid to high end boards/brands. Saw the Ocean Critters advertised in the Buy and Sell section. Experience has shown me that there are some cheaper brands in just about any product.. that will be up to the quality and design as the top of the line stuff. But takes a fair bit of weeding through many cheap-arsed rubbish .. I would like to think Ocean Critters might be good value and would love to see some users feedback sometime!

Straight Pimping
Good work sargacr/Kaptainkaos/ocean critters (quite likely all the same person)
Im not hating just commending you on your efforts

Seeing you mentioned it JacobMatan, thought I'd better check sargeacr's profile to make sure its not me. Nah, never windsurfed and not really into helicopters

I apologise sargacr and kaptain kaos, it just looked like the classic setup and plug that sometimes makes its way onto these forums