Your Quiver: minimal or extensive?

[Ifallalot]

I have only weird surfboards that I hardly ever ride:

5'7" Mini Bonzer Light Vehicle
5'7" Morgan Twin Keel Fish
6'2" Vercelli Single Fin
7'4" Lovelace V-Bowls

Four or five pairs of swimfins that I use all the time for bodysurfing.

A Fourth Gear Flyer Lotus surfmat that I use when I'm not bodysurfing.

A Krypt surfmat that I lend to friends who want to try a surfmat.

And at least 15 handboards that I use regularly.

I spend more and more time on the surfmat, even on the North Shore, in marginal/sketchy waves in order to avoid crowds.

Do you ever feel like you're going to jack up your shoulder with the handboards?

I've moved to bodysurfing only because I felt like I was killing my shoulders

 

[laidback]

1 everyday board
1 everyday board for soft knee high waves
1 longboard, in the rafters..I dont remember ever using it.

 

[jamesgang]

I surfed with Bud at Backyards a few years ago on a good sized day. Getting beaten out to the lineup by a guy with one arm was humbling.

Yeah, he's pretty amazing

 

[griffinsurfboard]

Quiver for Florida:


Ultra fun Suzuki gsx s1000f

One board quiver Tri Fin Hovercraft

Canfield One - anywhere bike


Will be adding a few boards when I start glassing them .

 

[bird.LA]

I'm not sure if I should be offended by that or not.

You saved a lot of money :grin2:

 

[craigj532]

I have only weird surfboards that I hardly ever ride:

5'7" Mini Bonzer Light Vehicle
5'7" Morgan Twin Keel Fish
6'2" Vercelli Single Fin
7'4" Lovelace V-Bowls

Four or five pairs of swimfins that I use all the time for bodysurfing.

A Fourth Gear Flyer Lotus surfmat that I use when I'm not bodysurfing.

A Krypt surfmat that I lend to friends who want to try a surfmat.

And at least 15 handboards that I use regularly.

I spend more and more time on the surfmat, even on the North Shore, in marginal/sketchy waves in order to avoid crowds.

Do you ever feel like you're going to jack up your shoulder with the handboards?

I've moved to bodysurfing only because I felt like I was killing my shoulders

To answer the above question, I’ve been using an Enjoy pressed hay handplane most lately. Totally flat, no concave, but thin. I’ve yet to find the perfect handplane. I have one of the Slyde Bula handboards, but I find it to be too heavy. I also have one of the original foam and fiberglass Bula boards on which the Slyde board is based. It’s lighter and, IMO, better, but it feels like too much board for me. Probably has a lot to do with the fact that I weigh at least 75 pounds less than the Hawaiians who designed it.

I don’t use a handboard in shorebreak waves. Too easy to jack up your shoulder there. But I try to avoid shorebreak waves as much as possible. Otherwise, it’s never bothered me in real waves.

 

[waxfoot]

5.5 - Tomo Evo Helium (only 3 surfs on it so far)
5.7 - Tomo Omni LFT (second hand bargain - love this sh!t out of it)
5.11 - JR Donkey PU (every day board, but not liking it much)
5.11 - Tomo SKX (yellow as fuck second hand bargain, but wanted to try it. Great board, if a little temperamental at times) LFT
6.0 - JR Grinder MAX PU (better wave board)
6.4 fish of some description PU (take it out just to fuck around on)

Sold the step up since the Ments trip. Not used the PU boards in nearly a year, waves at home on east coast of AU's been dogshit for ages.

 

[racer1]

I used to be extensive but found I only rode 1-2 boards most of the time, so I've paired down to kinda minimal:

5'6 Mardawg Snot Rocket EPS
5'6 Super Brand Fling SuperFlex Tech
5'7 Stretch Super Buzz CFT
6'1 Pyzel Ghost XTR
6'6 Pyzel Ghost XTR

 

[Aruka]

I've definitely crossed from having an extensive quiver into full on board hoarder status.

I'm afraid to count but probably near 30 now with most of them being fairly boring yet functional 6'3"+/- daily driver thrusters. The road to the magic board is paved with rejects.

As far as what I'm actually throwing in the truck most often this past year it's:

5'10 Stretch Quadfish
6'2 Stamps GX
6'3 Stamps CX
6'5" Pyzel Ghost XTR
7'2" Arakawa RP

 

[Sharkbiscuit]

Quiver for Florida:


Ultra fun Suzuki gsx s1000f

One board quiver Tri Fin Hovercraft

Canfield One - anywhere bike


Will be adding a few boards when I start glassing them .

There. Are. Still. No. Fishing. Poles.

It's happy bait. Get an 8' spinner, a 5000 series reel, some 15# nanofil, some 30# flouro.
Rapala skitter walk, skitter v, x-rap, and especially the sub walk. Black back, green back. White bucktail jigs, silver and gold kastmaster spoons. Pair of needle nose pliers.
4-6' net, certified 5 gallon bucket, 2 D batteries, and the fizzy bubbler if you prefer live bait.

 

[griffinsurfboard]

Fishing is Way too slow for me

Becoming a occasional gun nut would be more fun

 

[Duffy LaCoronilla]

Why do you have a downhill bike in Florida?

 

[Sharkbiscuit]

Why do you have a downhill bike in Florida?

Santos is better than you think and the oak roots at most local zones will run a bike seat rape train on you without full suspension.

GG-man I think fishing with lures during the mullet run is much more fast-paced than bait-n-wait and spanking it on the beach.

I'd head up to Slaughter Slough when there's a little north in it with an outgoing tide and fish the beach south of there. Bait should flush out and down and fishy should be waiting. Haven't been down there except once to Surf Station 2 in a dog's age.

 

[tacos]

Not sure if it's minimal or not, but this is the quiver I've happily settled on:

Grovel-ish/fishy board (Stamps Fuse)
Short period windswell stubby shortboard (Shorter, wider Stamps GX)
Every day shortboard (Longer, narrower Stamps GX)
Good wave shortboard (JS Monsta 6)
Step-up (Stamps)

Props to Kento for maintaining the life-long college student quiver. The rest of us are probably overthinking things.

I'm not sure if I should be offended by that or not.

Ha, I’m the same way. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate new boards and reading the design forum nerdery but I haven’t bought a new board in over a year and a half, when I bought 2 used/cheap boards for a trip. Before that it has been over 3 years since I bought a new daily driver short board, not counting a log I bought on a whim. Hell, the last time I surfed I rode a board I bought in 2010.

 

[Havoc]

Why do you have a downhill bike in Florida?

Santos is better than you think and the oak roots at most local zones will run a bike seat rape train on you without full suspension.

GG-man I think fishing with lures during the mullet run is much more fast-paced than bait-n-wait and spanking it on the beach.

I'd head up to Slaughter Slough when there's a little north in it with an outgoing tide and fish the beach south of there. Bait should flush out and down and fishy should be waiting. Haven't been down there except once to Surf Station 2 in a dog's age.

greg n sharkbiscuit make florida actually look livable and fun lol


just taking the ****...

 

[Havoc]

OK to change things up a bit if you could only have 1 board in your quiver, what would it be? Only 1 yoz!




i’d take my lost quiver killer

 

[Kento]

OK to change things up a bit if you could only have 1 board in your quiver, what would it be? Only 1 yoz!




i’d take my lost quiver killer

When I bought that board last year, it was the first board I had bought in 7 years.

My usual daily driver is a network of poorly repaired dings, plus a couple that are sucking water from God knows where. Board is great for about a 90 minute session and then has to be dried out for a few days. Perfect for getting into paddling shape, like trying to paddle a cinder block.

I fucked up when I got the lost Qk and actually adhered to volume estimates (first board I ever bought where liters were part of the dims) so I got too much volume. Was going to sell it until taking it out that last good swell a couple weeks ago. That extra volume was really good for heaving barrels and the shorter board length is good for the late drops into them. Good for bigger waves but I still need a new daily driver. I predict a Xmas gift to myself.

 

[GromsDad]

Early on I came to the conclusion that trading in boards was pointless. They were worth more to me than I could get for them. Just been accumulating ever since.

 

[bluemarlin04]

Got 3 Boards

1 Egg
1 Fish
1 Longboard

Can surf a variety of conditions on these

 

[VaB]

I think part of the problem is me. Good surf and well rested, great, standard sb but good surf and coming off night shifts then I just want to cruise.

fickle surf and old surfer