of doing dishpan turns today

i borrowed a friends 8'8 and had my first surf on a shortsup for a long time.

this board is a custom featuring step rails with hull entry double concave into flat into double concaves to v tail.
i paddled out a bit wobbly after only surfing 12'6 s. also had a surf paddle that felt like some kiddies short paddle

i caught a couple of waves and was over turning way to much, also the centre fin was too far upfor me, so in i went to find a screwdriver.
i changed the fin back and out i went again.

i must say paddling these shorties any distance is a' pita'. i ended prone paddling a bit because i just couldn't be bothered wasting energy when i could get out quicker prone paddling. thats one for the purists

any way, i started getting the feel of it, but i had real trouble keeping the rail in off the top and on cutties, hence the dishpans or i just completely lifted the whole tail out of the water
i think it was a combination of the hull/nose concaves lifting the board and the wide tail on this board and me not surfing one of these shorties for a while.

this board however is a real goer.

barry, whats your call about this board?

i was pretty happy to get a few nice waves and get some performance moves in compared to the queen mary stuff on the 12'6 s,

i'm looking at getting a 'dtm' when i can get the 'folders'. the fine rails and tails and that toxic green colour should be a buzz.

my feelings are if you really want to rip, you got to have the rails and tails refined and the tail pulled in, but it's going to be harder general handling wise.
me personally, don't have an issue with a bit of prone paddling thrown in there

cheers
ps thanks for the lend barry

wazza66 said...

Lacey,your guilty of alot of things

Have you tried the Luke Egan's 8'6 Magic Carpet model yet?

wazza, i never got the chance to. i could be wrong, but it looks to wide in the planshape for my tastes.

what have you been up to. were you one of the pack of thirty out there for the early today
cheers

wazza66 said...

Lacey,your guilty of alot of things

Too true,my very first encounter with Mr Lacey was some
25 years ago when he had his Psychedelic Flurs hair cut
Still has it today

62mac said...

wazza66 said...

Lacey,your guilty of alot of things

Too true,my very first encounter with Mr Lacey was some
25 years ago when he had his Psychedelic Flurs hair cut
Still has it today

you talk too much mac

and you learnt way to much off my mate back in those days.

what happened to the youthful innocent mac
cheers

Got a few dishpan turns in myself today , tail slides too.

bjhjames said...

Hi Lacy,

Watched you on a few, looked like you were having fun and you were getting some nice carving turns off the top and bottom. Give yourself more credit.

The board you had a go on was the first one dale did for me a year ago.

Take the new one out anytime. At 8.5 and very thin with the deck concave, step rails even finer and the tail pulled in... I find it a major improvement again.

Bit wobbly for the first ten minutes till you find the sweet spot, then its fine...

I do get tired sooner, but I think its worth it

cheers Barry

Hey Barry - I was doing the same thing on your new DC14' carbonator this morning damn thing kept poppin' the fin out off the top though - cannot figure out why

Woops - come to think of it I was only supposed to river paddle it wasnt I [}:)]

wazza66 said...

Lacey,your guilty of alot of things

Have you tried the Luke Egan's 8'6 Magic Carpet model yet?

hey wazza, i had a go on one today. not a bad board at all for the bigger guy. it was a demo board that just had fcs plugs all round. could have done with a fin box so you could put a decent sized centre fin in- it's a wide tail board so its either a quad setup or fin box which they now have. i reckon they're the go for this board

at my weight,77 kgs, i found it corky and too much volume to really bury the rail.

but thats me at my weight. i reckon the heavier chap wanting to have fun on a short sup- its pretty good.
its also a extremely light board

i'm going to kick off with a secondhand psh 8'9 ripper to restart my short sup riding again

cheers

Yeh 510 and 511's mate,used to drop in on guys with names like Bruce Lee,Mark Warren just to get a reaction.Marks was fine but Bruce's wasn't.[}:)]

62mac said...

Yeh 510 and 511's mate,used to drop in on guys with names like Bruce Lee,Mark Warren just to get a reaction.Marks was fine but Bruce's wasn't.[}:)]

dropping in on bruce lee

62mac said...

Yes mate not intentional tho.He was surfing off the south wall and I in middles,there was noway he was going to make the section imo but my judgment was wronghe whipped right under me I flicked off and as he paddled by I got the eye[}:)] Lucky to get away with that one

haha, nice bloke actually, but back then, not someone to mess with in the surf