New boards

[iggy]

Please Mr. Neville
What's the difference between the potatonator and the spitfire???.
Th activator, how much difference does that tail makes to a traditional spitfire?

[Nev]

Hey Iggy
The Potatonator is in the Sweet Potato bag of vegies mate.
These boards are not always necessary, but O.M.G they taste so good it is freaky. It is almost like you just cannot have steak (Taj, Flexfire, Hellrazor and Hellfire) and vegies with herbs (Dominator, Spitfire, Futura, El Fuego) without some sweet potato, but you'd live. The Spitfire is like a good herb...You just gotta have one to put some flavor in your repertoire. Greens and Iron are essential for your surfing diet.
The Potatonator is a morphed up Sweet Potato making it a board that can be ridden a bit more aggressively than the SP. Crazy board. You should have seen Chuy going mental on his in Mex. Mark Price could have gone back on tour if he could just remember the 70's enough to know how good he was. If you just keep following the boards up through the range the next one is the Spitfire or Dominator, that will again perform at a more aggressive level but the Potatonator is absolutely a perfect board to complement your HPSB for everything 4ft and under.
Nev

[Nev]

The Activator Tail will be more foiled therefore more sensitive, easiier to bury at speed, but will only work on the Activator not the Spitfire because they have completely different foils and rocker.

[Justin]

new boards posted in the quiver section: http://www.firewiresurfboards.com/quiver.php?boardid=intro

[Nev]

Sorry guys...I have lost the plot with all the names in our range. The Activator described above is actually the Jacknife. The actual Activator is the Dominator but with a narrower more drivey double wing swallow, whilst maintaing all the inherent charachteristics of the Dominator/Spitfire in outline rocker and volume. The Jacknife tail shape will encourage deeper more committed turns than the Dominator and to a lesser degree, the Spitfire.

[iggy]

jejeje thanks Mr.Neville for that colourful explanation. Already I don't eat much red meats now there are more veggies incorporated into my diet!!!.
Note apart came yesterday to pick up my new 5'2"potato. Just came back from a little sesh under heavy onshore winds and hail and this thing was going over everything!!!. Thanks for all the thought put on it

[Nev]

All good buddy...80k dry? Go for a run in the sno bro...geez it must be chilly up there!

[Ben]

I dont see the jacknife showing up on the homepage yet, just type in the name 'jacknife' and the link is there: http://www.firewiresurfboards.com/quiver_boards.php?boardid=jacknife

[Freaked_Out]

Howdy Nev,
Lovin you work, have a 4 fw board quiver already it that gives you some idea! Speaking about veggies, is the baked potato still in the oven or did it get thrown into the compost bin?
Cheers,
Scotty

[iggy]

Well when I go snowikiting (lakes not frozen yet and not much snow as of this morning), usually temp goes for around -12C plus the windchill it could easily reach -25C and I'll be sweating like a pig.
Today little sesh at -1C in Long Sands Maine,but we've surfed there at -10C... believe me you pray not to duck dive!!, the problem is that is a beach break so...
Those 80Kgs dry will hopefully become 75Kg wet ;)

[core personal training]

i've said it before and i'll say it again....IGGY'S NUTS.......

i'm just back from 30deg air/22deg water...clear blue 6 ft thick smackers in boardies...alone.. until my back called it quits...gouging back-hand over and over straight to the keyhole where my kids were looking straight into the bowl at me...on ... you guessed it... 5'10 hellfire... it rode like a full hi-perf board...yeeeeeewwwww

NEV...would of been good to put a spartan through its paces there today....hint hint nudge nudge...

[iggy]

This will solve some doubts
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[Wandi]

i've said it before and i'll say it again....IGGY'S NUTS.......

i'm just back from 30deg air/22deg water...clear blue 6 ft thick smackers in boardies...alone.. until my back called it quits...gouging back-hand over and over straight to the keyhole where my kids were looking straight into the bowl at me...on ... you guessed it... 5'10 hellfire... it rode like a full hi-perf board...yeeeeeewwwww


NEV...would of been good to put a spartan through its paces there today....hint hint nudge nudge...

Hey Core what size Spartan you looking at getting
What do you think are the major differences from the Taj pro

[prjwebb]

Shorter, thicker, wider and I'm thinking the rocker is slightly more linear rather than the huge kick the Taj has.
The 5'10" Spartan is the equivilant of the 6'1" Taj volume wise I think.

[core personal training]

not sure yet..need to replace my 6'2 hi-perf...should be on a 6'0 from a purely volume perspective, but i'm lugging and a bit creaky at the moment and may welcome a bit more to push forwards against on take off in the 6'2.. Nev used to shape me rockered 6'3's that were 19 x 2 1/2 med to full rails so might be good to revisit that kind of board...loved them...or should i get a hellrazor...or a taj...or replace my 6'2 x 18 3/4 x 2 1/2 flexfire...struth...i'll just flip a coin...!

as phill said..more cushin' for the pushin'...

[stylar]

Hey Chris or Justin, any chance you can post some pics of the rocker profiles for both the Spartan's & Hellrazor boards.
Real photos give a more accurate image of the boards profile than just the 2d images.

Also any news of the new Lost models

Cheers guys.

[Chris]

hey stylar, I am going to put that together over the course of the next few weeks, can't get it right off the bat though.

thanks for bearing with us.

[Fritzkat]

Anyone seen the new Hell Razor yet? Curious as to its rails thickness especially on the tail bite. Anything like the step down rails on the Hell fire?

[Nev]

You guys are truely certifiably insane up there in those temps!

[Chris]

Hey Fritz,
big differences: a mellower bottom contour on the Hellrazor and a square tail. Slightly less volume per unit length. Its going to track a lot more like a shortboard where the hellfire has more of the flow and tracking tendencies of a hybrid. In the grand scheme of things the differences are somewhat minor, but when compared to one another, that is how to differentiate between the Hellrazor and Hellfire.

[Fazza]

Chris,

It was my understanding that the Hellrazor has the step down rail like the Hellfire but goes further down the length of the board..........is this true????

[iggy]

Howmuch "bigger" the tail of the potatonator is compared to the one from the spitfire?

[Goanna]

OK I've lost 10kg and am looking at selling the 6'4" Futura and getting a 6'2" Futura to replace it.......now I see the Jacknife!
can anyone tell me when this model is due in Australia?

[Chris]

hey check your other thread goanna, that is where i will post the response.

thanks.

[Nev]

Hey Scotty...The Baked Potato is fresh out of the oven, but waiting for a release date which will be in June I believe. Should have seen Cjuy Reyna rippin bru on it in Mexico a few months ago...Too much fun.

Iggy...You are mental... minus 1 degree???? No comment!

[surferireland]

Wheres this Jacknife

[Chris]

the jacknife is going to be released a bit later in the year so we haven't put it out as publicly as the new models that will be coming out sooner...

[jus]

Hey guys,

Anyone got any idea what fins a working in potatonator?

Ben riding my spud with quad controllers and SA4.

I've got a 5'10 potatonator (futures) coming in a couple of weeks and wondering how either of those will go and/or what anyone else has tried? - Cheers

[Chris]

When I get my Potatonator, I will be cruising on the SF4s myself. I'll be on a 506 or 508 as well. at 510 you could have fun with a bigger set too, but if you are liking you SF4s on your spot, you'll like them on the P-Nates.

for those reading this about to say AT 510 YOU'RE CRAZY! TOO MUCH BOARD! the potatonator is far more refined than the sweet potato. Less volume per length by far. A lot of DNA from the Dominator is woven into this board.

Cheers!

[hwork50]

Chris,

Wat is the difference between the Potatonator and the Baked Potato? By the way your quiver is just ridiculous, I am jealous and wish my job had such sweet benefits.

[iggy]

Baked potato

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potatonator
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http://blog.bcsurf.com/new-2012-firewire-surfboard-models-potatonator-baked-potato-and-activator/