Do you have a SHTF board?

[oeste858]

Jeez. The sky is falling.
I thought this stuff was kept to the General Discussion Forum, where it seems like opinions can only be extreme- one side or the other. No middle ground.
Back to the bunker!

 

[casa_mugrienta]

The sky isn't falling, we're going to make it fall.

 

[haar]

I think what you're asking is do we have a magic board that is in 9/10 condition we are saving to ride? I have 16 boards, all in excellent shape. All but a few are custom. If I could never get another board I would be fine but I do have one. It's a 5'10" thinned out SpeedDialer Pavel handshaped for me. I was in the shaping room with him. I have other quad fish but this one I knew I wanted to put away after the one and only session I had on it. I feel like it would help me rip as an old guy. That's my thinking.

 

[SixtyGrit]

My 5'8" moonlight glassed VS Shadow has been on ice for about 4 years. Weird, I know.

 

[racer1]

If you guys ordered more durable boards, then you wouldn't have to ice them.

 

[njsurfer42]

5’8 Wynn quad fish...classic outline w/ slightly more pinched rails vs a full retro shape...goes in pretty much everything I’m going to paddle out in

 

[SixtyGrit]

If you guys ordered more durable boards, then you wouldn't have to ice them.

I've been learning to make them from foam and epoxy in my garage, so there's that. I'm basically a prepper.

 

[silentbutdeadly]

If they stopped making boars I think my 10'0" mitsven glider and Hess quad would get me way beyond my surfing years.

 

[mundus]

if the stuff really hit the fan the last thing we should worry about is surfboard choice.

 

[Havoc]

already got one. stamps shadow

 

[Waterlogged05]

if the stuff really hit the fan the last thing we should worry about is surfboard choice.

Imagine being a post-apocalyptic-surf-raider and being caught riding a Firewire

 

[jkb]

already got one. stamps shadow, manta, fling, flyer, stubb vector, SP2, giggle box, bottom feeder, lazyboy......

Fixed.

 

[silentbutdeadly]

if the stuff really hit the fan the only thing we should worry about is surfboard choice.

Seriously

 

[Retropete]

Not a FireWire. From Bert Burger who came up with the parabolic rail tech used by FireWire though.
Sunova 8ball.
8' x 15&3/8" x 21&5/8" x 14&3/16" x 2&11/16" @51l.
Balsa panels over eps.

I fit into the older part in the video description. Very refined foil. Look at the rail at 1.50min mark.

 

[Mr J]

With the economy set to completely collapse in a way we've never seen except in maybe places like Zimbabwe, I'm curious who here has a board you might never ride but you've been keeping for when surfboards stop being produced?

Mine is a 5'10 CI Rob Machado single fin.

Don't worry Casa, production of surfboard materials and the finished product hasn't stopped in Australia, we will be able to export you some. Despite a tardy start to the lockdown the virus has been controlled and our state and federal leaders waking up to how contagious the virus is, so I am confident production will continue here.

Even if we were to recruit the devil's advocate and point out that some of the Australian public are badly behaved e.g the crowded beach scenes of Bondi, then you will still be able to get tufflites from Thailand. They were recognised early into the pandemic as an at risk country and taken effective action.

http://instagr.am/p/B_UQItBHssO/

 

[Mr J]

Apologies for previous post, I was unable to take your question seriously although I am taking the coronavirus threat very seriously.My serious answer to your question is that it is not the end of US surfboard production, no economic collapse lasts forever and I don't believe there is going to be an economic collapse which matches the great depression.

The GFC has done us us a favour to prepare for this crisis - some banks and lending practises were rotten to the core and the rot has been removed. Our governments have also come a long way since the great depression and are more willing to prime the pumps in times of strife. Even those of us who keep our jobs will pay for this for sure - less retirement fund than if the crisis had never happened, higher taxes to pay back all the money our governments threw at the situation, reduced standard of living through inflation perhaps, but thats not the end of the world and surfboard production.

I have promised myself that if I come out the other side with my job intact I will buy a local (Regional Vic) custom surfboard even though my two pu/pe Chilli boards look like they last a while. I'm sure there are others with a similar idea.

 

[Ifallalot]

I have this from AverageJoe

It's epoxy over poly and its a Quad Fish so its a SHTF board

http://imgur.com/a/ohCEOmL

Also these

http://imgur.com/Yu1ui5Z

 

[casa_mugrienta]

if the stuff really hit the fan the last thing we should worry about is surfboard choice.

It's for after the dust settles.

 

[griffinsurfboard]

If the poop hits the fan there will be no surfing
Beach closures made me decide to upgrade all my parts on my bike instead of build new boards .
I ride 9 miles everyday its not raining and many times twice , even when the trail was closed
Surfboards will be worthless if surfing is not allowed - dats da way it works -

 

[One-Off]

If the poop hits the fan there will be no surfing
Beach closures made me decide to upgrade all my parts on my bike instead of build new boards .
I ride 9 miles everyday its not raining and many times twice , even when the trail was closed
Surfboards will be worthless if surfing is not allowed - dats da way it works -

Night surfing remote spots.