Islands/Indo trip 3 board quiver vs home 3 board quiver

[Raffer]

Thanks for the feedback.. Sounds like you have an enviable quiver. I like the look of the Squire craft... Recently purchased a 2nd hand long channelled twin (7'6) in the Massive style so I imagine similar considerations apply to the long fish. Keen to try a V Bottom at some point...

 

[kvg]

My travel boards are all typically soulless high performance boards. I'm too nervous about having a Lovelace, Andreini or MOTE get crunched while traveling. I'm probably doing them a disservice by not stretching their legs in good waves.

Great wave travel quiver:
- Knee to Chest: 5'8 Christenson Myconaut
- Chest to OH: 5'10 Arakawa Jackpot or 6' Pyzel Ghost
- OH+: 6'10 Arakawa RP

Home (messy deep-water beach breaks):
- 7'10 Lovelace Lizzy (Summer) or Myconaut (Fall/Winter)
- 6' MOTE AuGoGo (incoming) but for now mostly 5'8 Alpha Omega
- 6'4 Ghost or 6'6 Russ Short


I end up wanting alt boards more and home in my softer/choppier waves. At home I just want to make sections and do groovy cutbacks. When I surf alt boards in good waves I struggle with their width-- too much surface tension and speed. I also end up wanting to surf much more high performance. Chase barrels, crack lips.

 

[Raffer]

Great mix of boards with some that I'm familiar with - the Lizzy and Ghost.. the Arakawa RP looks like a classic gunnier shape for the big hollow stuff... I have a similar outline by Adrian Phillips of fluidjuice (Cornwall) based loosely on his own models eg widowmaker and evolution and on Rawson's Sniper model though it is significantly wider 20.5 and a bit thicker 2 3/4.

 

[dingpatch]

A sorta kinda story, , , , Earlier this century where I was working a much younger local surfer guy worked in field service and started "working his way up the ladder". He was asked if he would like to volunteer to move to an Army base close to the North Shore. YEP! Anyway, he had just spent a pretty good amount of money on a brand new 3 piece set of Firewire products. He was starting to sweat about proper packaging and such to be able to get his "so special" boards to Oahu. I told him "Nope, your brand new Florida East Coast Boards have no place where you are going." He noped my advise and shipped his boards. When he was back in Melbourne 6 months later for corporate "training" I asked him about the surf. "Should have listened to you. The first day at Sunset I used my "step up". When I got out and got a close-up view I was "WTF". It was, as he was told, a smaller so-so day with a lot of "you should have been here yesterday" added. He realized that the "kids" were riding boards as big as his. He paddled in without catching anything other than soup, and got worked. Shipped his Florida boards home to Florida and bought a few used boards to start to dial in what he needed.

 

[TheEL]

Bring what youre most comfortable riding at home.