Quiver pictures

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I am a longtime lurker who rarely (maybe never?) posts. Seems like there is alot of interests in quivers, lots of good discussions, etc. Thought I might post a quiver shot I took over the weekend since I had plenty of time due to lack of rideable surf.
Disclaimer: I have been surfing for as long as I can remember (20+ years) and have only sold one board which is my excuse for the expansive quiver.

5'8" Peterson Fireball fish, six channel step bottom.
5'10" Ezera proto stepbottom swallowtail
6'0" Ezera proto stepbottom swallowtail
6'0" T&C (J.Johnson) six channel roundtail
6'2" Original Ezera stepbottom swallowtail, copied
6'2" Self shaped triple concave squashtail
6'6" Ezera stepbottom swallowtail
6'2" Brewer modern fish
6'2" Rusty (B Johnson) C5 fish shortboard
6'2" Old school singlefin "rastaboard"
6'4" Brewer true brew squashtail
6'4" Al Merrick triple concave squashtail
6'4" T&C (J.Johnson) six channel pintail
6'4" T&C (J.Johnson) Double concave swallowtail
6'6" T&C (D. Pang) triple concave squashtail
6'8" T&C (J.Johnson) six channel pintail
6'8" T&C (J.Johnson) double concave pintail snapped/repaired
7'0" T&C (J.Johnson) double concave pintail snapped/repaired
6'8" T&C (J.Johnson) double concave pintail
7'0" T&C (J.Johnson) double concave pintail
7'6" T&C (J.Johnson) double concave pintail
6'8" Al Merrick triple concave squashtail
7'0" Al Merrick pintail
6'3" Island Classic (Arakawa) old school squashtail
6'6" Island Classic (Arakawa) squashtail
6'10" Island Classic (Arakawa) round pin
6'8" Byrne reverse vee squashtail
7'6" Brewer True Brew Gun triple stringer
9'0" Brewer True Brew Gun triple stringer
6'9" Al Merrick triplane swallowtail (Al Merrick)
6'8" Rawson baby squashtail
7'6 JC (J. Carper) gun
8'0 Hamish Graham gun (T. Currens pipe board)

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7'10" Brewer outer island gun
9'0" Brewer True Brew Gun triple stringer
9'6" Surfboards Hawaii ~1955
9'6" noserider

That's my current quiver, let's see some pics of yours...
 

Waldo

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Wow, that is a truly spectacular quiver, and I dig the color on the blue boards, with the chevron blends.

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Thats quite a few boards do you still use all of them? Otherwise there is an outfit in Jefferies Bay that provide surfboards and equipment for under privaledged kids maybe they will be as staked as you were when you road those boards.
 

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The question of the day is where do you put all those boards? I only have a couple of boards and have trouble with storage.
 

noreastsurf

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Shiyt man, that is one sick quiver, but living on the east coast myself, I must ask how long it takes you to decide which board to ride. I mean, since its flat much more often than it is rideable, you must not get to use your boards very often. But then again, I'm sure some are for travel too. It's cool how you've never sold a board either.
 
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Thanks for sharing the stoke, I'll share a few more pics once I get the hang of the pic loading.

Chucke - Saddly many of my boards don't get any use at all, but I've got a (hopefully) full lifetime to try to get them in the water.

Waldo - The blue chevron was obviosly my favorite pattern for several years, inspired by Ross William's boards from awhile back.

Kane - I think I'm late for the question of the day, but the answer is I have a huge unfinished basement that houses most of them.

Nes - Your right on difficulties picking the board to ride, even packing for travel. Fin systems have added to the headache, I usually pack three/four boards for the conditions I think I'll find, once I check the conditions I pick one and never look back. I have a slew of small wave grovel type boards, my current favorite is the Fireball.
 

oneula

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Nice quiver.. Lot of hawaii shapers('specially for the eastcoast)
Interested in how the Fireball rides. Haven't heard or seen anyone ride one of these except Curren in the videos..
Looks like he was struggling a bit, but the boards bottom design has always been intriguing to me..

Finally how did you get it, did you order it direct or find it in a shop?

Aloha
 
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Oneula - Mostly Hawaian shapers as I would usually order and pick them up on trips to the islands.
The Fireball does ride much different than usual fishy/shorter boards. I haven't ridden it in anything like the Curren video. For me it seems to like punchier surf - it doesn't go very well through flat sections. Huge bursts of acceleration, get it on a steeper section and it draws a much different line. I've had it for a few years, I called around and found at the time Spyder had licensing for the States. I talked to some Australian over there, gave him rough dimensions and my sizing, and he did the rest.
Definitely a pretty funky design, I'll post some pics if you like...
 

oneula

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love to see some pics..

One of the best boards I had was a little 6'2" fish Bushman shaped me after he saw curren's board in Hawaii. Of course that was 10 years ago when I was 30 pounds lighter.
Damn thing was so fast and flew through the flats but had a pretty straight forward v-bottom hips wide back behind center and drawn to a very narrow nose. Accelerated unreal. My brother even rode it in 10'ft hurricane town swell at Ala mo. He said it was the fastest he's ever surfed..
Your board has got to be faster with that bottom...
Mahalo
 
Jun 23, 2003
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Oneula - Here's a pic which shows the tail section. I'll see if I have time to snap a few more over the weekend as our flat spell continues.
It does have a very narrow outline compared to other fishy types - especially towards the nose.
 

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i am working on it, really.

6'2" with futures set-up. only hitch is that it'll have five boxes. hoping to be able to go thruster, quad, and twin, maybe twinzer.

kinda liek a test bed to see how each set-up perfroms and which i prefer.
 
Jun 23, 2003
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Scott,
To me, to describe the "assortment" of boards I possess, I would use the terms collection and quiver interchangeably.

As far as the duplicate boards - Some boards I own were an attempt to be identical I have shipped "magic" boards back to the original shaper in a feeble attempt to have them copied (with mixed results.) Some of the boards I keep in different locations I frequent (which is why I didn't get them all in the picture.) in order to be able just show up and have the possible range of surf covered. Others I have had shaped and picked up in various locations while traveling, to save the hassle of traveling with boards one way I had similar boards that I already owned recreated.

I guess I might throw another questions: are there sub classifications of quivers?

Travel Quiver: Many times I have had 3/4 boards shaped for a particular trip, making a Tahiti quiver, a Hawaiian Quiver etc.

Location Quiver: Most people have had boards shaped for a particular wave, what about a backup or for different conditions at a particular - say pointbreak?

Lifetime Quiver: pretty self explanatory - and probably a good example of my board philosophy.

Just as a surfers approach to surfing is unique, their board preference will be unique. And since a quiver - at it's bare roots is a surfers selection of surfboards - the term quiver probably doesn't have the same meaning from one person to another.

Regardless, I call my boards an assortment/collection/quiver etc, mainly depending on the person I am talking with.
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