Sometimes On Saturday Surf & Culture Report

 
Lost Boys & Co...

Three things:

#1.  A few more snaps from the Becker, "Meet The Shaper" event...  In #1 we have Kira, Bob, José and Morgan.  Kira, Bob and Morgan were really the driving forces behind the success of the event...  Oh yeah and like José kinda made it real...  #2 features Jah Morgan and José Bacallao proclaiming that Barahona Surfboards are number 1!  We applaud their enthusiasm...  And in #3 we have the Professor awarding Billy McIntosh the George Freeth Loving Cup for his work keeping the seal population to a minimum at Sappharua.  We never realized Billy is so tall.  He rides a short board so he's always the same size we are in the water.  On dry land he's a fair sized lad...

#2.  Another shot of downtown bump city (#4) with a nice left rolling through...  This was Friday.  This morning it was plugged with guys trying to get the last gasp of that swell.  It was half this size this morning and 10 times as many gladiators...

#3.  We keep getting questions about "No Nose" board that the Professor has been using for the last few years.  So at first glance (#5) it looks like a regular plan shape with the nose cut off, maybe a foot short of where it might be if it followed the likely outline.  Actually, it's as long as it would have been had there been a pointy nose in the middle at the end of the stringer and the Professor added "wings" to the nose.  Photo #6 shows what it would've looked like had it had a conventional shape (this board is 7'10".)  The Professor decided that he wanted to do several things.  A. He wanted to increase the volume for better float and paddleability.  B.  Since the front quarter of the board is rarely in the water when you're surfing the "wings" don't get in the way and can add some measure of lift along the down-turned rail line.  C.  The combination of rocker and concave channel down the center of the board, to the flat mid-section and ending in a spiral-vee, keeps the board loose and let's the quad-fin set-up work to it's best advantage. 

If there's any disadvantage to the idea, it might be that if it's windy or choppy, it has a tendency to hang up a bit.  The work around is to paddle a little closer to the nose and keep it from catching any resistance.  It can also make for some later take offs than you would like or that wouldn't happen if you had a pointy nosed board that cut the chop a bit more efficiently.  It's made for the short South Bay beach breaks and keeping an old guy in the line-up.  That being said, I used it in El Salvador and Hawaii and it was fun up to about a couple of feet overhead.  More than that, it's nice to have something a bit longer to get into the waves a bit sooner...
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"When the surf breaks, we'll fix it"
The Professor!!





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