Here a picture of my carbon rails

Thanks sunnybouy ,not only does it look good ,but it goes good too ...

i like the new changes ..it still feels similar to the 8'7 flow ...but the new rails make it turn even faster ..

loving it so far ...hope your getting waves in the UK ..starting to cool off here ,so the sun is heading north for you

Tardy,
your board is just amaaaaaazing, and like everyone else I want to live where you do (but on the other side of the bay as I'm regular foot!)

Sunny,
I'm another UK paddler (Pembrokeshire), and really interested in your thoughts on the Placid, thinking about pulling the pin on an 8'7.

Great video before and the carbon rails look slick. I have a 8'0 coming next week from W.A (Freo) as all 3 8'0 sold here in 2 months (WSS). We have a guy with a 8'4 here at Long Reef and looks like a fast flowing board but his cutbacks dont look as good as yours ??

Haddock said..
Tardy,
your board is just amaaaaaazing, and like everyone else I want to live where you do (but on the other side of the bay as I'm regular foot!)

Sunny,
I'm another UK paddler (Pembrokeshire), and really interested in your thoughts on the Placid, thinking about pulling the pin on an 8'7.

Hey, not too far from me.. well a few hours drive!

Tardy sums up what I was going to say. And TBH he probably knows more about them than I do because he surfs more than me. I think I'm a little lighter than him, I'm 78kg ATM and the 8'3 is probably the right size for me. Two things I found different to the Flow 8'7 I have.. (the Mk1, not the Mk2) is the tail on the Placid is really "thin" and it's balanced around the mid section, meaning if you want to turn I just back foot back a little and flex my toes and it turns, the Flow is a bit of a stomp/lean as mine has the slightly wider tail section than the newer style Flows. But I've lived with my Flow and its a keeper forever.. I just think its so versatile.. The Placid has been out in shoulder high biggest waves so far and they were a bit sucky, it took a a couple of sessions to get the feel for the tight turn, it kept spinning me off at first.. then I stopped rushing my foot placement and it sort of clicked. I guess thats because I'm used to my Flow. I haven't yet tried the Placid with smaller fins, I might do that in warmer water when I can hop in/out in one session and test them back-to-back.. ATM it's pretty shilly here in the UK and the waters about 10C which is probably 20C cooler than Tardys waves!!

Theres some seriously good surfers on here, just search for a thread on whatever board you are looking for and someone will pop along and help. Tardy helped me out no end early on..

HTH's.. Enjoy choosing your board.

Haddock said..
Thanks Tardy and Sunny for the responses. I guess it's not too rough a position to be in, both boards will probably do the job admirably and its just a case of the type of board I want. I suspect that anything is going to feel pretty good coming from the 10'5 Starboard Drive, which definitely feels it's limits at about head high.

I'm leaning towards a placid 8'7, which will probably be a good step down from the Starboard, the alternative would be an 8'4 flow v2, which I think is a tiny bit small for me - at the moment (84kg).

Sunny, I guess you're somewhere on the south coast - my son is at uni in Plymouth and I'm planning on doing an extended visit/surf trip if travel restrictions allow.

I have not yet properly surfed my 8'8 Flow v2 (just paddled around hoping for a wave), but it is far less stable than the 8'7 Placid (which I have surfed many times), so the 8'4 Flow v2 would be waaaay less stable. (I am 96 kg, but I have been sup surfing for a while.)