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The Seagrass Project Tuna

The next frontier in board performance top surfers, designers and shapers alike are at one agreed, that it will be “Flex”. Boards that are carbon railed, parabolic, and boards that are stringer less offer this Flex. But wait…

Flex is some thing surfers are still getting their head around, but there is one guy on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland that has it nutted out, and he is way ahead in understanding Flex in surfboard design. That bloke is Tom Wegener who has an understanding of modern material theory, combined with ancient knowledge and heaps of experimentation, and with the help of his formidable team of forward thinking surfers, brings us the Seaglass Project Tuna!

These new Seaglass Project Tuna design boards are similar to the Alaia models that top surfers have been having fun with over recent years. The new models are called “Tuna” and “Mini Tuna’ and like the timber Alaia have no fins. Tom Wegener says, “they are a perfect blend of proper flex, rail and bottom contours”. The Tunas are constructed of modern materials for better floatation and with the combined effect of a flat rocker profile, gentle curves, and hard rails that grip the board into the waves like no other, with exhilarating speed on any wave.

You may start to see surfing in a different light with this board in your quiver. The Seaglass Project will broaden your horizons, and open your mind to a new way of surfing.

Surf-Shop at Peregian will have two Seaglass Project Surfboards for your perusal and purchase.For more images and news items on the release of the Seaglass Project you can click here to go to Global Surf Industries Products and Information

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WARNING-THIS IS NOT YOUR DAD’S FISH

Hands off Dad!

This is the dire WARNING as a headline, for a recent release from GLOBAL SURF INDUSTRIES of a surfboard that Dad’s should leave alone, and it goes like this:-

“WARNING- THIS IS NOT YOUR DAD’S FISH”

GSI defines this latest release of the 7S WMD as “the bullet movement for performance alternative in short board designs”. They have tagged the sales pitch as a “warning-this is not your dad’s fish” possibly to create interest in both camps.

The 7S WMD (Weapon of Mass Destruction) “boasts high performance rails and a super thin swallow tail that generates massive speed acceleration and thrust out of every turn”

What’s the Secret

The secret to this board is that it has a very flat entry rocker and thin tail exit which allows you to get on the wave earlier, and set yourself up to generating your speed quickly, even after performing a spin or a vertical cut back re entry. When you look at the line of the board, one stand out design construction is obvious, and that is the ¾ length full single concave that provides you with the lift, and speed, in nearly all conditions from overhead, to sloppy knee high waves. The WMD’s single flyer swallow tail needs further inspection, as the tail together with the “spiral vee” just behind the leading fins, allows drive and pivot like a thruster with the ease of  a twin fin. It will go like the clappers just as a thruster or a twinnie, with wave count up because of the extra floatation and paddle on, of the fish design, and that’s all got to be good.

What Fins?

The WMD comes with FCF fins standard, or you can opt up for twinnies with  a small trailer fin.

Where Do You Get It

This Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD) is available now at:-

www.surf-shop.org just follow the links or see it on the rack at :-

Surf-Shop, Peregian Beach, Sunshine Coast 07 54713489.

or Global Surf Industries

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WHAT MAKES FISH SURFBOARDS RIP?

Global Surfboard manufacturing companies work hard to identify and categorise the models they make, and one surfboard model of note is the 7S Super Fish Surfboard range.

FISH SURFBOARDS.

Fish Surfboards have become a world phenomenon in popularity not only for accomplished surfers but also those who want to lift their level to a higher point, and when only a Fish will do that job.

Basic Fish Model

The basic Fish model shape shows a more hippier characteristic feature over it’s counterpart, the modern day Thruster . This Hippier shape if you will, is what gives it the term Fish, and along with that shape is given a generous amount of floatation, and it is inherently wider, and also made thicker than a Thruster style surfboard.

Super Fish XL

This extra size has opened up a new world of surfing for the bigger surfer as well, when floatation then becomes a lesser problem and Fish boards can be set up as twins or quads can handle a variety of wave size being bumpy or smooth, and in the hands of an expert. even quick suckey waves.

One Fish surfboard is at the fore front of the Fish surfing world, and is is the model known as 7S Super Fish, and a model for thebig blokes the 7S Super Fish XL.

So what makes fish surfboards rip?7S is available in all sizes at our Peregian Beach Sunshine Coast Surf Shop and their construction is regular polyurethane fiber glass, and also the acclaimed Epoxy finished models, that are super lightweight, and very durable,

7S SECRETS

The 7S secrets are that this style of board has the “step deck design”, which gives this Fish design model and that also gives them a high buoyancy advantage, but this factor doesn’t interfere with the inbuilt high performance rail design. To add insult to injury it doesn’t stop there, when the bottom of the board features low entry rocker that flows into a full length concave, to help get the best out of full rail turns.

This 7s Super Fish board can help you make sections that you never have before, it is  as smooth as it is fast.

Manufacturing Features

The manufacture points to note is that they are glassed with 2 x 4 oz deck and 1 x 4 oz bottom with an extra 4oz patch around the fin area. The boards come in a silky smooth Gloss Polish finish in the Poly models, or Gloss Painted finish in the Epoxy models, and they all come standard with FCS M7 Quad Glassflex Series fins.

The Fish Range

The full model Fish Surfboards and the 7S range, can be seen at the “Surf- Shop” David Low Way, Peregian Beach on the Sunshine Coast, or just follow the links to “Dealers”, on Global Surf Industries web site to view more of the 7S Surfboards, and click on “Surf-Shop” Peregian Beach as your preferred supplier.

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