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This looks like it works:The Aussie exchange rate is pretty good right now. They're really not much more than a boutique US shape so it's really just the wait that I can handle.
My friend just bought a Tolhurst Mid 6 7' and we're heading to Mexico today so I'll have a chance to try it in some good surf. Looks a little more performanc-y than I'm looking for but open to trying it out. I do like that construction for a travel board. Wish it was a bit smaller though.
The Chili looks a little more high performance than I'd like. Looking for more of a glidey egg feel than a higher volume shortboard with lots of rocker.
Having tried the Doc and the Maurice Cole, I've kinda whittled down what I like in these sort of boards and the MOTE looks like it has what I'm looking for but open to other suggestions.
kook-strap hat! love it.This looks like it works:
He share's his father's (Richard Cram) DNA that is for sure.kook-strap hat! love it.
wonder if he's also a recent shingles survivor
boar looked alright
I am not sure I could handle that The wait would not kill me it would be the shipping "hayden erbb story" and stress if it arrives in one pieceI've got a 6'7" MOTE Fiji on order. They were not taking orders for a while but are now taking them again. It's gonna cost me around $1100-1200 shipped here to So SoCal. No idea when I'll get it...pretty excited.
Will see how it goes up against my 7' Townsend that I LOVE.
I've said quite a bit about it on the Mid Length thread, but I'll second Havoc's words: surprisingly versatile (big range). I've ridden mine as a super groveler in knee high waves, and had one of my best surfs of 2022 in pumping 12ft faces.@Maz you have a Chilli mid strength? If so care to chime in?
The Facebook group had a field day when you sold that thing last month aye... I'm surprised to hear it didn't like Ulu. I would have loved to have tried that board at Outside Corner when it's coming inI owned a 6'6 MOTE Fiji here in Bali for about 6 months and eventually sold it. I likes hollow waves. Very effective at Dessert Point, but just ok around Ulu, Impossibles, and Bingin. Surprisingly, my 6'2 Christenson Nautilus catches waves earlier, generates more speed, and turns just as well.
Quad nautilus?I owned a 6'6 MOTE Fiji here in Bali for about 6 months and eventually sold it. I likes hollow waves. Very effective at Dessert Point, but just ok around Ulu, Impossibles, and Bingin. Surprisingly, my 6'2 Christenson Nautilus catches waves earlier, generates more speed, and turns just as well.
It likes the wave to be steep at 2’ or 10’ and anywhere in between. I had a long phish previously but sold it. I have another on order in Bali for a trip in a couple of months. Both great boards but very different. The LP has incredible range and rides more like a mid length.I owned a 6'6 MOTE Fiji here in Bali for about 6 months and eventually sold it. I likes hollow waves. Very effective at Dessert Point, but just ok around Ulu, Impossibles, and Bingin. Surprisingly, my 6'2 Christenson Nautilus catches waves earlier, generates more speed, and turns just as well.
I have both a quad and a twin. The twin is incredible in big open faces. I use the quad in hollow sketchy surf, where I have to make quick changes.Quad nautilus?
MC bonzer egg maybe with alpha omega bottom and set up sounds like what you want or even modfied Russ ShortI don’t really like fish (or quads) so the nautilus is out.
Rode My friends Mid 6 today in decent sized, head high-ish beach break. Went pretty well but not what I’m looking for. Too much rocker and too performance oriented. Looking for a lower rockered board where the turns are more deliberate.
The one thing I really dug about the DocTur Twin was the wide-ish low rockered channel bottom tail. Turns felt really good.
The Fiji looks to have a similar wider, low rockered tail so imagine that feeling would be similar. Lot of the other boards like the mid strength look like they go with a narrower tail with more rocker to facilitate release rather than hold.
Interesting about the Mid6. That board is at the top of my list, but I'm not looking for a lot of rocker either. I like free speed!I don’t really like fish (or quads) so the nautilus is out.
Rode My friends Mid 6 today in decent sized, head high-ish beach break. Went pretty well but not what I’m looking for. Too much rocker and too performance oriented. Looking for a lower rockered board where the turns are more deliberate.
The one thing I really dug about the DocTur Twin was the wide-ish low rockered channel bottom tail. Turns felt really good.
The Fiji looks to have a similar wider, low rockered tail so imagine that feeling would be similar. Lot of the other boards like the mid strength look like they go with a narrower tail with more rocker to facilitate release rather than hold.
I like my Ledge a lot but talk to them about thickness and be careful just YOLOing one. The deck is super flat and chunky.Album ledge would be my pick, thinking about yoloing one.