the Blunt
THE BLUNT – My personal favorite. While surfing the mushy point and beach breaks of San Clemente, I am always looking for a board that paddles easily, glides across flats, and carves mush, yet still allows vertical turning and snaps in the pocket. Influenced by the jumbo wide tails of 80’s Laser Zap, this board was designed around a modern thickness flow, rails, and bottom curves, but with an extra wide round tail to stay on top of the water. The outline up front is wide and curvy as well. The round tail encourages flowing turns and rolls tight in the pocket. The rocker is low throughout, but with an aggressive acceleration in the tail. The rail rocker “hangs” lower than the center line in the rear half, creating a radically deep concave and curvey rail line through the fins. This makes for extreme lift, and fast tight arc‘d turns out of the tail. The bottom rail is tucked all the way through the fins, so you can get it up on a rail and not slide out too easily. Riding this board is the most fun I have ever had in typical waist to chest high Trestles surf. I couldn’t recommend it more.
THE DBL-BLUNT - For many of us, the Blunt has been an all time favorite in waist to head high surf. I end up taking mine on work trips to places like Costa Rica and Europe, etc and I know I can feel comfortable inmost small surf situations. Often times I end up being in surf that’s just one step (or maybe 2 steps) above what the Blunt excels in, and I wish I had something with a bit more hold and control... without sacrificing the freedom, speed and looseness. Introducing the DBL-BLUNT. Meant to be ridden 1-2” longer than a Blunt. Everything (outline, foil, rocker, etc) the same, except a touch more nose rocker in the front 12” and double bumps added to create significantly less tail area behind the fins. I can still generate speed injunk, but lay down far more critical and precise turns, when going full speed, as well as hold in off the top and bottom on waves up to 3-4’ overhead. Not as gunny or foiled out as The Rock-Up, but more of a one board quiver for a conservative, hybrid loving, surfer who needs something for 3’-8’ surf.
STOCK DIMS (WITH CUBIC VOLUME IN LITERS): This chart serves as a general guide to what our various models will look like in a retail setting. These numbers are optimum stock dims for the models, to ensure the flow between outline and rocker, but are not set in stone. This both a guide for deciding whether to choose a stock board or custom order one with your own dims; and also a guide for quiver building.
THE BLUNT - 5’4 19.50 2.18 (25.7cl)- 5’6 19.75 2.25 (27.2cl) - 5’8 20.00 2.25 (28.5) - 5’10 20.25 2.38 (31.5cl) - 6’0 20.50 2.50 (34.4cl) - 6’2 21 2.63 (38.1cl) – 6’4 21.50 2.75 (42.0cl)
