Here are a couple of pictures of the latest board from Laguna Bay. It belongs to Tully but I have had a few waves on it and it goes insane.

Dimensions are 8'4" by 27.5" and it is buoyant enough to float Woogie fairly comfortably. Board weighs in at 6.37kg including fins and tail pad. Only surfed it in small waves, but the board is ridiculously loose and super light.



Keahi

Hey, looks really, how much does Woogie weigh

Garethg said...



Hey, looks really, how much does Woogie weigh

Woogie is a whooping 85kg

This was at the latest Beach Boy Club Day (Sunday) before the boys had a surf on the open beaches with Tully's new board

Hey keahi - thats a sweet looking board. If the old man (tully) surfs that at the aussies you may not be making that speech again - he might just give the young fella a lesson in supping.

Keahi said...

Here are a couple of pictures of the latest board from Laguna Bay. It belongs to Tully but I have had a few waves on it and it goes insane.

Dimensions are 8'4" by 27.5" and it is buoyant enough to float Woogie fairly comfortably. Board weighs in at 6.37kg including fins and tail pad. Only surfed it in small waves, but the board is ridiculously loose and super light.



Keahi

Hi Keahi,

Tell Tully thats what I want. Im trying out a few boards when I get up there on Monday. I think he has an 8ft 2, 8ft 6 and a 8ft 8. The board pictured looks really good. Ill see you early in the week.

Appsy

appsy said...

Keahi said...

Here are a couple of pictures of the latest board from Laguna Bay. It belongs to Tully but I have had a few waves on it and it goes insane.

Dimensions are 8'4" by 27.5" and it is buoyant enough to float Woogie fairly comfortably. Board weighs in at 6.37kg including fins and tail pad. Only surfed it in small waves, but the board is ridiculously loose and super light.



Keahi

Hi Keahi,

Tell Tully thats what I want. Im trying out a few boards when I get up there on Monday. I think he has an 8ft 2, 8ft 6 and a 8ft 8. The board pictured looks really good. Ill see you early in the week.

Appsy

Yea I'll tell him, let us know when you get here and we'll hook up for a surf. Should still be a bit of swell then if it hangs around. Picked up a heap today.

Keahi

Keahi said...

For a small board it is fairly buoyant

Keahi, does "fairly buoyant" and "fairly comfortable" mean it's pretty tippy in anything except perfect glassy conditions?

I'm guessing that although that board is 8'4", if it had a conventional 'pointy' nose it would really be around 9' 0.

Just curious, but why the 'mal' nose shape? Can understand it for fat point breaks but what about in suckier beachies and reefs?

Good point Rodriguez. Guess I am referring maily to the rail line in terms of comparing lengths. But then again there would not be a great deal of volume in the last 6-8 inches of a pointy nose board.

Not having a dig, I am genuinely curious about the design of these boards, particularly since some of the best SUP riders in OZ are using them.

Just to add my 2cents worth - I own a 10.6 Laguna bay sup and although it is obviously a bigger board than tullys new one it is the same plan shape and I have also ridden a 10ft version and have one on order and I have to say that in my opinion that they surf as close to a high performance mal as any sup I have ever ridden - and by that I mean that I feel they are incredibly fast/light and loose but are the most forgiving sup I have ridden to date and they truly feel like you are part of the wave and not just floating across it like so many corkier feeling epoxy boards. the sickest mal I have ever ridden was a laguna bay msj - a board with absolutely no limitations - these sups are as close to that as I have found. (I am no expert - I just know what I like)

goatman said...

Ive had a copule of the boys boards. Probably some of the best surfing boards on the market.
Rode the same dimensions in a few "pointynose" asian pop outs. the turning arc and rail to rail surfing of the laguna was better. Nose width didnt come into in (20" compared to 17"). if anything it helped with stability and nose riding was better.
They certainlty didnt ride longer.

I wonder how they would compare to a 'pointynose' custom Oz board such as the DC - although obviously there are so many other factors that affect performance.

I would have thought the wide nose would help with stabilty as you say - allowing them to go shorter. The light weight of all these 'custom' boards would play a huge part in their looseness compared to a pop out - in smaller surf - I would have thought.

Anyway, I find it really interesting the way SUP design is heading off in a number of differnet directions - great for the progress of the sport IMO.

hi,you can't really use the nose part for stability on the dc, its more about keeping in that sweet spot as in if you are losing it weighting forward will not help
cheers

Mate no offence taken,i was interested as to the same logic,less swing weight with a pointynose.My next board will be 9-4 with a nonose setup,and my thinking was it should ride significantly shorter without to much reduced loss of stability,mine is also a custom from surfshapes.

goatman said...

Good point Rodriguez. Guess I am referring maily to the rail line in terms of comparing lengths. But then again there would not be a great deal of volume in the last 6-8 inches of a pointy nose board.

Not having a dig, I am genuinely curious about the design of these boards, particularly since some of the best SUP riders in OZ are using them.

Keahi said...

I guess we have just found the Mal noses a bit better. It's seems to give it a lot more stability and allows you to noseride it if you want. I know they have tried a couple with pointy noses and you do need them to be a bit longer. We just find them better to use, especially for the waves around here.

Keahi

good point keahi,noosa waves lack power most of time,laguna bay boards work just fine up here,probably at port macquarie as well