Been a while since my last post, gotta get better about that!
George over at Plus One just made me the sickest sled that I've had in a long time, the Altered Mind Machine!
5'9" x 19" x 2 3/8" or so (it's hard to measure this accurately due to the gnarly single concave!).
Bottom contours are so complicated your brain might melt trying to comprehend...rolled vee through the nose into a flat spot right under the chest into a deeeeeeeeep single concave all the way to the rails (a la Maurice Cole) through the business section of the board to a light rolled vee out the tail (light spiral vee). Wow. Just try and shape that on your own.
On top of that, the blank is a brand new blend of PPE foam ( I don't know what this is, so don't ask) infused with EPS between the cells. Wow. It's called I Foam, and is tightly closed cell so if the board is dinged it won't soak up any water. Add to that the first time Marko has ever put a parallel stringer into this blank and you end up with a light, flexy, ding resistant platform for high performance.
Glassing schedule is just as technical, with 4/4 x 4 e-glass and epoxy resin vac'd on, with carbon fiber patches in the nose and tail to dampen the hinge flex created where the stringers end.
Included is a 5-finbox FCS Fusion convertible fin system, ideal for thruster or quad. The fin combinations are almost endless with all the templates FCS has out right now.
I had my best session of the year on this board yesterday at a N. County beachbreak. Solid HH+ South swell screamers that either drained along the sandbar or screamed down the line, barrles or turns! Got a deeeeeep tube and the board tracked through the barrel like it was on rails. Finally got my foot back far enough in the right spot and it turns insane! Feels like a 6'2" but the stubby nose makes tight radius pocket surfing oh so easy. Paddles like a 6'4" with all the volume forward. This board really is the best of all worlds and will work in knee high slop up to overhead dredging tubes. Winning.
