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Machado not Cado but pretty Groovy.

Gone FISHn around February

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I love flat deck boards….i haven’t been a twin guy but that board is impressive and looks the goods.
Might have to try one.
If you like flat deck boards a good way is to pick stock plan shapes and just have them made 1/16” to a 1/4” thinner…
…obviously you need to think a little bigger planshape to get the same volume but the flex and forgiveness of a thinner flat deck board feels good I reckon.
I can’t handle rolled decks….hate em.

Optimist wrote:

I love flat deck boards….i haven’t been a twin guy but that board is impressive and looks the goods.
Might have to try one.
If you like flat deck boards a good way is to pick stock plan shapes and just have them made 1/16” to a 1/4” thinner…
…obviously you need to think a little bigger planshape to get the same volume but the flex and forgiveness of a thinner flat deck board feels good I reckon.
I can’t handle rolled decks….hate em.

Optimist. Hi mate. Hope ya well

We are of the same vintage, never in my wildest dreams would I’ve thought of riding a twin fin. Purely an unsubstantiated view in the brain department blocking any consideration of their use.
Well, at almost 60years, I’ve now got two of them and I love them, it’s all horses for courses type stuff.
I choose a board for the type of surf that’s in front of me on any given day.

The slightly flatter deck, less front rocker and you’ll find it’s easy to catch waves, less paddle power required, once you’re up and riding you can milk the wave for all it has to offer. Quads are my boards in general, but I’m really liking the twinnies as well.
MOTE Fiji, 6’1” , triple stringers and flyers, channelled bottom with medium sized fins. Had larger fins which came with the board, no good, way too loose, was liking trying to ride a skateboard on a wave.
The other is a 6’6”” Arakawa rounded pin twinnie, it’s the best board I have. The Glide fins engage immediately when you drop them into the wall and off you fly.

Us oldies can still have fun with modern day tweaks on boards. Try one !.AW

Dear Alfred,, thanks for the advice, …I’m going to give them a go. My Christian brother Eric A would be a good choice of a 6’6” keel twin. …where did you get yours in Australia?
I also am a big fan of quads….especially backhand….especially on fast beach breaks……
My favorite all time boards included an arakawa that a backpacker brought into the shop I was working in to sell …..he picked it up in Hawaii and wanted a $100.
I thought it was Christmas and loved it to bits for quite a while….it was a 6’5” swallow with the old palm trees decal….what a friggin board….it was one of my memorable boards.
Did you know Brutus got saved and became a Christian in Eric’s church in Hawaii.
Another rough diamond being steadily polished by Jesus….
OK keel twins….on my list for sure.
Who would have ever thought me on a twin….but there is something going on I admit.

Optimist wrote:

Dear Alfred,, thanks for the advice, …I’m going to give them a go. My Christian brother Eric A would be a good choice of a 6’6” keel twin. …where did you get yours in Australia?
I also am a big fan of quads….especially backhand….especially on fast beach breaks……
My favorite all time boards included an arakawa that a backpacker brought into the shop I was working in to sell …..he picked it up in Hawaii and wanted a $100.
I thought it was Christmas and loved it to bits for quite a while….it was a 6’5” swallow with the old palm trees decal….what a friggin board….it was one of my memorable boards.
Did you know Brutus got saved and became a Christian in Eric’s church in Hawaii.
Another rough diamond being steadily polished by Jesus….
OK keel twins….on my list for sure.
Who would have ever thought me on a twin….but there is something going on I admit.

Optimist. Hi.

I’m a backhand surfer here on the Torquay coast, can’t remember the last time I went left, so yeah,the boards I described work a treat.
The Eric A.board is that Mysto model, got it through connections, let’s just say I didn’t pay too much for it. Can’t really disclose my contact sorry.

I know Brutus, his outcome is good, he nearly left this world.
Merry Xmas to you and yours. AW

AlfredWallace wrote:

Optimist wrote:

Dear Alfred,, thanks for the advice, …I’m going to give them a go. My Christian brother Eric A would be a good choice of a 6’6” keel twin. …where did you get yours in Australia?
I also am a big fan of quads….especially backhand….especially on fast beach breaks……
My favorite all time boards included an arakawa that a backpacker brought into the shop I was working in to sell …..he picked it up in Hawaii and wanted a $100.
I thought it was Christmas and loved it to bits for quite a while….it was a 6’5” swallow with the old palm trees decal….what a friggin board….it was one of my memorable boards.
Did you know Brutus got saved and became a Christian in Eric’s church in Hawaii.
Another rough diamond being steadily polished by Jesus….
OK keel twins….on my list for sure.
Who would have ever thought me on a twin….but there is something going on I admit.

Optimist. Hi.

I’m a backhand surfer here on the Torquay coast, can’t remember the last time I went left, so yeah,the boards I described work a treat.
The Eric A.board is that Mysto model, got it through connections, let’s just say I didn’t pay too much for it. Can’t really disclose my contact sorry.

I know Brutus, his outcome is good, he nearly left this world.
Merry Xmas to you and yours. AW

Optimist. Hi again.

Here’s a couple of photos of these large fins for the Arakawa Mysto.

I wouldn’t be putting keel fins in this type of board.