Luke Short Designs (LSD)

[Erling]

Is it just me or is the foil image of the Chubby Chedda looking a bit strange? Seems like all of the other boards are rotated so that the top deck is about horizontal, but on the CC the board is tilted a lot forward, making it look like it's got a lot of tail-rocker an very little nose-rocker:

foil compare.jpg


What size CC would replace a 5'8 Spit or a 5'11 El Fuego?
Or to put it in another way, what size would fit in between the 5'4 Sweet Potato and a 6'2 Alternator, for a intermediate@80kg (+5mm fullsuit) ?

[nn66]

I would get a 5'11 CC, I am looking at replacing both my 6'6" Hellfire and 6'4" Spitfire with a 6'6" CC, volume of 6'6" CC sits between both current boards. Hopefully it's a good decision as my other decison is to get a 6'2' Vanguard.

[seabass]

What's a "vanguard" and the "brow" or the next spit/dom board coming out? Need a new replacement grovel board.

[nn66]

Het seabas the Vanguard is under HP boards check it out it very interesting, I have heard quite good reviews from a mate of mine from Lennox Head. Don't know what a brow is but if you are looking for a grovel bord get Baked Potato mine rips and goes in anything from 6 inches to 4 ft I upgraded from a Sweet Potato which too was a great bord.

[aurfalien]

Ditto x order of magnitude on what nn66 said, the BP is great. I have done over head with it, no probs, lotta fun.

Will be trying the Deviant fin on that bad boyeee my next go around. The 5 fin boxes really allows for fun experimentation.

[iggy]

What's a "vanguard" and the "brow" or the next spit/dom board coming out? Need a new replacement grovel board.

http://www.firewiresurfboards.com/su...ardid=vanguard

[Chris]

Hey Seabass,

The vanguard is a modern shape, as you have seen, put together by Daniel Thomson of Tomo surfboards. it has a unique approach to HP surfboard design.

The Unibrow is most easily described as a stretched out Dominator with a higher performance foil, a nice mellow but ripping double concave and a more shortboard like nose. Rips.

The Chubby Chedda is a Luke Short Design that is kind of a small wave short board with a forward wide point. Another small wave ripper, a little more of a conventional shortboard ride.

I think they all have comparable versatility and should be considered in thigh to overhead surf....

Cheers

[kdropin]

i'd like to see a pic of the uni

[nn66]

Chris do you think a 6'6" CC would handle the same upper end wave size as a HF 6'6" as I have had my 6'6" HF is pretty much close to double overhead 12ft faces, only problem is the slight lack of volume paddling in and that's why I like the slightly extra volume of the CC 6'6" and hope it will handle larger waves, I have a problem going any bigger than a 6'6" on a step up board. Also interested to see and find out more about the Unibrow.

[seabass]

Sorry about the vanguard question i had seen in for some reason didn't recognise the name....to many ales..... thanks for the feed back and vid. yeah a picture of the Unibrow would be great...