fish boards are ugly

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just my opinion. has the ugliness of fish boards been covered already? I'm relatively new here. btw, nothing wrong with ugly
 
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rgruber

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Agreed. I've never like the aesthetics of fish or liked the way wide tailed boards surfed. Never had one except the Lost RNF which has a pulled in tail making it less ugly and not really a fish by many people's standards. However, watching Bryce Young's latest movie, seems like they go pretty well. Although to be fair he also rips on a literal piece of wood (alaia).
 

teeroi

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Margot Robbie ugly or just like, regular level
I watched a couple of shows Priyanka Chopra is in. In one she plays a recruit to be an FBI agent another a spy. How would she go undercover? Kind of hard to go unnoticed. She was Miss World.

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Same for those Ocean movies. Every female witness and most men wouldn’t forget seeing George Clooney or Brad Pitt. Did you see who robbed the casino? Yes he was the most beautiful man I ever saw and there were 2 of them.
 

Sharkbiscuit

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IMHO there's lots of lovely lam work on the fishes. I think they're good looking boards.

The function is incredible and I have the utmost respect for his whole trip, but Burch's boards and some of the asym duuus....not as nice to look at.

The Aipa stings I don't think look good, or they look good the same way some of the 70s Lambos are epic time capsules, but the whole program of inspiration from boat racing is again a cool impetus for a board.
 
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I watched a couple of shows Priyanka Chopra is in. In one she plays a recruit to be an FBI agent another a spy. How would she go undercover? Kind of hard to go unnoticed. She was Miss World.

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Same for those Ocean movies. Every female witness and most men wouldn’t forget seeing George Clooney or Brad Pitt. Did you see who robbed the casino? Yes he was the most beautiful man I ever saw and there were 2 of them.
My friend is a writer on Quantico - also laughs at how bad it is
 

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I watched a couple of shows Priyanka Chopra is in. In one she plays a recruit to be an FBI agent another a spy. How would she go undercover? Kind of hard to go unnoticed. She was Miss World.

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Same for those Ocean movies. Every female witness and most men wouldn’t forget seeing George Clooney or Brad Pitt. Did you see who robbed the casino? Yes he was the most beautiful man I ever saw and there were 2 of them.
I tried watching that show and I swear she is so beautiful it kept taking me out of the actual story.
 
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Retropete

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Just bought this very lightly used 5'8" x 21&1/2" x 2&5/8" fish made by local boardbuilder "Hughies". Paulownia over eps with cork rails and flax cloth bottom. Tri plane bottom into V out the tail.
Too cheap not to jump on for $293.27 USD for the board and a virtually new set of Rasta quads and a set of Rasta hemp twin keels as well as the legrope and a boardbag. Yes the tailpad is an abomination. As soon as I got home after surfing today I sliced off the thickness on the tail kick as it was digging into my knees. If I can be shagged I will likely take the whole pad off.
So rode the board this morning in clean knee-waist high (ok waist is pushing the friendship) beachbreak waves. Happy days.
I literally have the sister of this board in a 5'10" x 21&1/2" x 2&3/4" with twin boxes and a sanded finish. The 5'10" was feeling a tad too much foam due to weight loss so figured the 5'8" was worth a punt.
Came with the weird legrope which looks like stretchy shock cord. Anyone know what model legrope it would be...FCS leash? Basically curious what its wave size range would be?
Just looked at the leash string... o_O I'm off to the garage to remedy that right now. Put down your torches and pitchforks!
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Retropete

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How much weight did you lose, mate?
Currently hovering inbetween 82-84kgs. Was 90-92 but every so often up to 95kgs. The 5'10" is about 38 or 39L and I reckon the 5'8" is about 36L. Keen to be 80-82kgs by May when I go to the Philos again.
On a sidenote @waxfoot Bowie was surfing my local beachy this morning as he's going to be working at Alex on Thurs, Fri, Sats for the next month. He was on a Cymatic (hardly optimal conditions for it) which I approved of. Be interesting to see what he thinks of it once he gets some decent waves on it?
 
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Currently hovering inbetween 82-84kgs. Was 90-92 but every so often up to 95kgs. The 5'10" is about 38 or 39L and I reckon the 5'8" is about 36L. Keen to be 80-82kgs by May when I go to the Philos again.
On a sidenote @waxfoot Bowie was surfing my local beachy this morning as he's going to be working at Alex on Thurs, Fri, Sats for the next month. He was on a Cymatic (hardly optimal conditions for it) which I approved of. Be interesting to see what he thinks of it once he gets some decent waves on it?
Wow, nice work - is that why I'm seeing all sorts of board sales from you on FBM? :D
I've always wanted one, but recently my tastes have changed, and I'm a little anti super short boards.