Matt Myers' Five11 / Rosie Young Art

2010's short board is losing length. What was once a short board is now a step up design as short board lengths start to approximate the height of the surfer. Here's a cool Five11 squash for Eastside ripper Matt Myers with awesome color by Rosie Young.

Carl White's Six4 Quad

RY and the Speed Egg

Rob Yuen, or simply RY is a true "Surf Gypsy." Surfer, fisherman, drift boat guide, and arborist, Rob leaves his home in Southern Oregon every winter for an extended surf expedition to Central Baja. One of his favorite "tools" has been his Eight0 Speed Egg. Returning from one of his dozens of trips to The Wall, Rob had me shape him the first version of this design in 2000 - extremely low rocker, simple round pin template, tri-plane to vee convex bottom, with a cool single fin / side bite fin configuration. The "Speed Egg" is a versatile surfboard that carves and planes in a very wide range of surf venues and conditions. This spring Rob had me shape a second generation Speed Egg. At Seven8 the new Speed Egg will be more maneuverable, offer tighter radius turns, yet maintain the glide that is key to it's function. RY spent the last several weeks fine tuning fins for his second generation Speed Egg. Always the master, RY recently reminded me that "style is free!"

RY and the Speed Egg

The Original Eight0

Second Generation Seven8

Shaping the Seven8

"Thumb" View

Tail View

Custom Fins

Flex Fin

Flex Preview

On the Road - Fueling Up

On the Road - Surf Gypsy Fuel

On the Road

Surf Gypsy Campsite

Up the Coast

Further Up the Coast

Surfing Takes Flight

RY - "Style is Free"

Six2 Redtail Pocket Rocket

6' 2" Performance Short Board
This is a fundamental design for every condition until a surfer requires more board to handle the demands of more significant waves. This design is a squash tail. It features a "Speed Box" rocker. The bottom features a hint of "vee" in the entry transitioning to a shallow single concave at the wide point to a significant single concave in front of the fin array. The concave fades through the fins and tail. Core and rail volume are tuned to the displacement requirements of the surfer.

 

Six2 EPS/Epoxy FlexTail

6' 2" EPS/Epoxy Flex Tail
This design features a "wedge" stringer - 4mm at the nose to 0 mm at the trailing fin. EPS/Epoxy composites tend to be a rigid board. They are difficult to flex in the same manner as a similar Poly board. Lighter glass schedule and a "core" with minimum flex forward and a variable degree of flex aft provides the type of "flex and memory" required to perform maneuvers at speed.

Eric Hansch's 610 Round Pin

Eric gets a board shaped every few years and the project always includes some cool graphics. This edition features a "whale" laminate on the deck and a "kelp" air brush on the bottom. This board's art is very easy on the eye.

Nine10 Gun

9' 10" Gun

Designed for XXL conditions. Big wave surfing places brutally clear cut demands on a surfboard. First is great paddling and catching waves with fluid entry followed by speed, power, and control getting to and turning off the bottom of the wave. Guns feature fundamental design components responding to these performance demands. This design is tested by and limited to serious surfers in serious waves.