Cuttlefish woodsy and sutto do me a pretty good deal!! thats the good thing about firewires they dont get beaten up.. i bought a few second hand and have sold them for the same $$. the start of winter last year i was about 114kg and i have been down to 95 kg and now hovering just a little up from that now!! since i started dropping weight i have been able to come down in volume ... hence a few boards!! i know if i put 2 kg on i can feel it on the board!!
6-4 alternator, 5-10 potatonator, 5-8 sweetpotato (sold), 5-10 sweetpotato (sold), 6-2 dominator (sold), 6-3 elfugo (sold)
Hi Leigh,
Yep, the two of them are great to deal with because they both still have the "fever".
Always dropping by to investigate different avenues of wave riding vehicles other than the 6'1" hpsb (high performance shortboards) that make up the majority in their racks,
As soon as Sutto's baked potato arrived I was pestering him for a ride report (as were quite a few others by the sound of it).
I met you once a few months back when you and Woodsy were standing outside the front door talking about another board.
Or was it Woodsy and I standing outside the front door talking about a new board (why am I so old?) and I can remember you saying you'd had a couple of sweet potatoes already.
No doubt I've piped up about my potatonator because the two of them haven't spent much time on it like I have and I'm happy to tell everyone how well it works for me.
49 yrs, 6'1", 92kgs. Surfing many moons grasshopper and I like plenty of foam. Potatonator 6'4" FST- Stretch or DVS quad fins, CI twin + trailer fin.
Yeah i really like mine too! probably to much thats why ive probably come across these problems because i ride it all the time no matter the size and shape of the wave! had it out kawana last big swell 3meter faces surfed good but it was a higher tide! its the sucky surf ive been caught out on it.... maybe the extra weight of my steamer is slowing me down a little since summer??
6-4 alternator, 5-10 potatonator, 5-8 sweetpotato (sold), 5-10 sweetpotato (sold), 6-2 dominator (sold), 6-3 elfugo (sold)
Hi leigh, is your 5'10 potatonator rf or fst construction? i would of thought 5'10 would of been on the lower side of volume for your weight, im just interested as im similiar weight but a little taller 94kg and 6'2 and am trying to work an optimal volume for a potatonator, i also have a 5'8 sweet potato which i bought as a 0-2' board, but im finding im not getting the paddle power out of it, what kind of conditions does your 5'10 potatonator perform best in?
Last edited by suncoastslop; 07-17-2012 at 05:18 PM.
Hi there slop! its rf, 5-10 probably is on the lower side thats probably even worse now its winter bloody wetties!! i paddle hard so it goes good in anything thats fat or mushy 0-2 but goes great 2-4 with the 4 being a little sketchy on the drops if it steap! i find i struggle when its 1-3 when it really sucky and needs a really quick take off.. i always seem to get to my feet late!! when it does no require that its one of the better boards ive ridden!! cuttle fish seems to love his 6-2 and he is about your dimensions!!
6-4 alternator, 5-10 potatonator, 5-8 sweetpotato (sold), 5-10 sweetpotato (sold), 6-2 dominator (sold), 6-3 elfugo (sold)
leigh thanks for the reply, kind of what ive found with sweet potato, goes average in 0-2' but then goes great in 2-4' but the takeoff's are sketchy, have you always had rapid fire in your fw boards? whats your take on the difference between rapid fire and fst,
suncoast
36, 6'2", 98kg
5'8" FST Sweet potato, Future boxes, Controllers quads, Elevon quads,
6'4 FST Spitfire, Future boxes, Elevon quads
6'6 RF Addvance, Future boxes Amt robbers
Hi Cuttle, which Sunny coast shop are you talking about? I get up the sunny coast a bit and thinking of changing shops as my current seems to be reducing Firewire stock and none of the staff seem to have ridden them. On top of that they are all teenagers riding potato chips.Originally Posted by cuttlefish
Beachbeat at Alex.
Woodsy and Sutto are the ones to talk to.
Woodsy rips on any and everything from Alaias to sups (boo, hiss).
Sutto sells lots of sweet potatoes simply by people seeing him surf his and want to get some of "that action".
He now has a new baked potato as well. Sutto has recently had trouble with his shoulder too so he'll be on the same page as you.
Both just the other side of 50 with the accompanying knowledge.
49 yrs, 6'1", 92kgs. Surfing many moons grasshopper and I like plenty of foam. Potatonator 6'4" FST- Stretch or DVS quad fins, CI twin + trailer fin.
Thanks, I've been in there before.
Well i made the jump 6-2 spitfire in the new rapid fire white construction, i reckon it will be a winner!!! rode my alt today @ wurtulla was good in the morning when the waves were good- big, rode like shit in the arvo when it dropped off maybe im a liitl big for that board under 3 foot...
6-4 alternator, 5-10 potatonator, 5-8 sweetpotato (sold), 5-10 sweetpotato (sold), 6-2 dominator (sold), 6-3 elfugo (sold)
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