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| 307919 | 12565 | 1 Board, 3 Board, & 5 Board Quiver | 73 | paipodude | Mar 7, 2024 | 2024-03-07T15:59:52-0500 | For my first three decades or so I only used one paipo board with about a 8 year life cycle (although I did have the 8'4" G&S Hot Curl for small days on trips to the Lighthouse in the OBX. I rode whichever board was in the active cycle all over the place, East Coast beach break, 2-15 ft Puerto Rico, Hawaii, PNW, Costa Rica, all over. I also had a practical board limit was a lot of my surfing was done on personal vacation and work travel. Then around year 2000, my quiver began to expand and boards became more focused for conditions. However, if I needed to downsize... 1-Board Quiver 50" (4'2") Baseline Austin Paipo (poly/glass), 3-fin 3-Board Quiver (aka +2) 50" custom Bonzer Paipo by Malcolm Campbell (poly/glass), 5-fin 50" custom Ashton paipo (poly/glass), 3-fin 5-Board Quiver (aka +2 more) 48" Xylem Malama Kai paipo (wood), finless 50" sorta Bonzer, (poly/glass) 5-fin, modeled on the Campbell The range above are essentially all 50" boards for a whole host of reasons, but thickness profiles and planshapes vary in small ways that make big differences. The Malama Kai is used mostly in very small conditions and victory-at-sea conditions as it duck dives superbly. My Campbell bonzer board likes a good Pacific Ocean groundswell, the Sorta Bonzer is my Atlantic Ocean bonzer. The Ashton is my fullest profile sweetiepie but is basically the same outline as the Baseline Austin, so a favorite for Florida's weaker waves up to 6 ft. |