Guns
Depending on how big your gonads are - these are the boards for you.
Designed for Waves 6 - 30ft.
Over the last 20 years, I have worked with Noah Johnson in developing a new designed gun surfboard that paddles in with ease but also can be turned 3/4's of the way down the face, and into the barrel , avoiding the drawn out bottom turn , which always leads to being caught in the impact zone... and the inevitable wipeout of your life.
The design incorporates a hard edge nose to tail to deflect any chop, get to the bottom faster, has Vee in the nose to also deflect any chop and stop any air getting in the slight concave which runs into the quad fin set up to get to the bottom of the wave quicker. The foil of the board puts all the thickness under the chest, creating a panel, as the rails are very thin and a very foiled out tail so the board still remains sensitive when angling the board into the barrel... the thinner tail also allows more torsion, when torque is applied. The out line is a very narrow nose so the wind does not get under the nose when paddling in, and this also allows more curve in the plan shape and tail area which helps turn the board earlier.
9'6" epoxy
Noah Johnson 10'6" epoxy
9'3" epoxy
Tow Boards
If you're into it, you'll be into this.
Designed for Waves 6 - 30ft.
For the last 10 years tow in surfing has been a big part of my shaping and design life.
Being one of the Australian shaping/tow surfing pioneers, I have watched the sport of tow surfing grow to be one of the most challenging sports in the world, and from a design and shaping perspective – tow surfing has become a new frontier and direction that will bring design and technological advances to the sport of surfing. This revolution is the Formula One of surfing!
I have been blessed to work with Ross Clarke Jones for the last 7 years as my lunatic test pilot. Ross Clarke Jones is one of my best mates, and someone who I have shared major design and technological advancements with in waves that are beyond the imagination of the current surfing world.
We believe with the current boards we are testing that we are attaining speeds of anywhere up to 120kmh, and at these speeds having to turn and carve on boards that are generally 5’11” x 16”1/4 x 1”3/4 is throwing out some spectacular results. At these speeds the hydronamic world kicks in or you get your ass kicked! Everything from the fins, their placement, their angle, their stiffness, their size, their foil – is all important.
Also of note is the hull shape – we have evolved the shapes to where we have a substantial 3/4” concave running the length of the board, which gives you less wetted surface area, (think catamaran vs mono-hull) but also gives you a very straight/fast centre bottom line with all the curve for turning being on the rail line – trimming super fast, turning, accelerating and being able to do the fastest carves known to man!
Construction of the boards goes from multilayered fibreglass hulls, carbon/kevlar hulls, and now using the highest grade carbon available we have, with 80/20 foil fins, achieved the stiffest, but with memory second to none, tow board on the planet!
But what does this mean to the other 99% of surfers that don’t tow? Well, if at speeds 3 times the normal paddle board we can get the results we have with our tow boards, you can be sure that this information fed into the surfboard has produced a new evolution in regular surfing.
RCJ Tow
Tow