5' 10" Firewire - Sweet Potato - Concave Shaping

A fun weekend of surf and more on tap for the next few days.
Fall is the best - Wind is up and water temperatures are still in the moderate range (55 - 65F) simply requiring a 3/2 or 4/3 with or without booties.

Fall is notorious for producing the first run of swells for the season, no matter where you are: Lakes, Right Coast or West Coast.

Great to get back into the water locally, especially when its solid 2-3FT peaks and no one else out but you and a few buddies.

Small Peak - No one out



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On to the shaping;

Local water and lifestyle photog - Harry S stopped by the FIVE Lab to check out his new custom 5'10" Sweet P come to life and get some base concave work.

Blending single to double channel concave
Photo: Harry S

The board has low entry rocker and we wanted to maintain the paddling advantage by simply adding a moderate single concave up front to help the float forward board pick up waves in smaller mushier surf.

Assessment is time consuming
Photo: Harry S

To compliment the speed obtained from the single concave up front we added slight double channel concave out the back to help direct that fast moving water towards the fins for better drive.

Slight double channel out the tail
Photo: Harry S

This combination concave complimented with a full tail volume and outline should make it the board of choice when its a 1-2FT summer slop day; but still have all of the fun of a snappy fish.



Critical Measurements
Photo: Harry S



Ready for rails
Photo: Harry S

With surf on tap for most of the week, production on the Sweet P is halted to the weekend; with multiple boards in for repairs - there is lots to come in the near future.

Thanks,

Nev.