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Is that a Frye on the right? Dang dude, that thing is PRISTINE! And the board on the left... Can't quite make out the logo, Keyo maybe? The fin on that one is spot on! Looking forward to more reports on this for sure!
The V-Bottom Project
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Mango Bill
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Seeing this and cheynskeezers Carson/Cooper v bottom in the quiver thread it brought back memories of exploring the v bottoms Roach had in California’s soft reef waves he had some gems and I had a 8’6” spencer kellog one for a while. After relocating to east coast this project seems better suited to these waves than the ones me and Roach road them in cool project can’t wait to see the outcome.
Mangobill
Mangobill
Mango Bill
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Oceanside surf museum
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30,000 hits and counting, just in case you're not one of them: https://isurfedthere.com/original-content/v-is-for-v-bottoms
There are also high quality scans of two old Surfer mags on that page. Click the link and download them, I even did OCR on them so you can search the text for any word or phrase you want. Best viewed on a big screen, not a phone.
I love my fowler
And would love to try a bigger one
Like the one
Or the board @Matt barracuda is selling
And would love to try a bigger one
Like the one
Or the board @Matt barracuda is selling
You know my feelings
Ricksurfin
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JMAC
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Fin templates, amount of V, location of V so many different possibilities as well as types and quality of waves for variables. I think a trip to a little known wave pool in the middle of California could be fun to prove some ideas that come out of this
Midget Farrelly stringerless v-bottom
I had a Frye in Jax bch
Fun
cheyneskeezer
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One of the first v bottoms I really took a liking to was a old Tanner daisy ( old is a loose term) I got it in maybe 2008-9. Trimmed nice and I could remember you could really lay back a long turn on rail.
Some info about my 8’8 circle v of genes is it was actually a pig that he slowly shaped over years most photos of him mowing a stringerless blank was of these board it started as a 10ft pig ( may not be exact size) that he later shaped down to this 8’8 that it is currently. I also own his 7’7 version that was shaped out of a old walker blank he had been meaning to throw away… both completely different boards
The 8’8 get into everything but if you don’t plant ur feet in the right spot on the initial bottom turn it lays over too hard and almost wants to blow it. I’ve found you really gotta tone it back and it does more. Rides well from the front half too surprisingly. The 7’7 has a very hully feel. You can crank a bottom delay turn into trim and if you get to a section u can directional change down then lay into the bottom turn and it projects into speed and makes sections.
Both very special boards and I still don’t know how I was so lucky to acquire both
Some info about my 8’8 circle v of genes is it was actually a pig that he slowly shaped over years most photos of him mowing a stringerless blank was of these board it started as a 10ft pig ( may not be exact size) that he later shaped down to this 8’8 that it is currently. I also own his 7’7 version that was shaped out of a old walker blank he had been meaning to throw away… both completely different boards
The 8’8 get into everything but if you don’t plant ur feet in the right spot on the initial bottom turn it lays over too hard and almost wants to blow it. I’ve found you really gotta tone it back and it does more. Rides well from the front half too surprisingly. The 7’7 has a very hully feel. You can crank a bottom delay turn into trim and if you get to a section u can directional change down then lay into the bottom turn and it projects into speed and makes sections.
Both very special boards and I still don’t know how I was so lucky to acquire both
