A classic pintail with glide and superior noseriding capabilities. This board has low nose rocker for steering from the tip and a long drawn out middle with a kicked up tail for cutting back. The rails have a lip in the front to 50/50 pinched in the middle to a turned up roll in the back to help rotation, smooth out the turns and enhance the glide.

Length: 9’4” – 10’ 6”
Nose: 17” – 18 5/8”
Width: 22” – 23 5/8”
Tail: 14“ – 15 1/2”
Thickness: 3 1/8” – 3 3/8”

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Here is a cool review and photos from a fellow surfer and reviewer named Sandwich Jones out of North Carolina.

1969 8’0′ weber strato series experimental.

In the late 60′s experimental shape. Heavily influenced by the smaller v-bottom boards the Aussies were riding during that time. This board features a not so subtle tri-panel vee that grows into a hard vee right behind the tail. Bob Mc Tavish gives a great explanation of the function of vee in Fantastic Plastic Machine. Vee basically allows the surfer to control the board from the mid section eliminating the need to walk back to the tail to turn. This makes the board more maneuverable and allowing the rider to place it in the more critical places on a wave.

I am under the impression that this particular board was only made for a short period of time. By 70′ and 71′ boards had become considerably smaller, likely making designs like this obsolete at the time. Being that this is an “experimental” board I’m not sure how many were shaped. I’ve attempted to research it. Apparently the strato series was a series of weber experimental boards from the late 60′s. Several versions were done according to the waves of particular regions (hawaii, east coast, and california).

I found this board on craigslist. i called the number and spoke to a gentlemen for some time before realizing that it was my parents next door neighbor of 15 years. He had a few of his old surfboards that he was trying to sell, this being one of them. on my next visit home, i stopped by to see tommy and check out the board. We visited for a short while, during which he told me all about his boards and surfing/living on the outer banks during the 60′s and 70′s. Tommy bought the board brand new in 1969 from a hardware store in virginia beach. He said it was the first ‘shortboard’ he’d ever seen. it originally came with a greenough style fin but he rode it with a smaller fin, shaped like a porpoise’s dorsal fin. Both of which have been lost. He told me the board nose rides great and that it was fun to make the tail slide out and do 360′s with the smaller fin.

I’ve only ridden the board once since i’ve gotten it. Stomach high waves on a very full tide. It wasn’t the best day to judge. My first impressions were that it paddled like a board of a much bigger size. I had never ridden a vee bottom before, or not one this pronounced. You can feel the board shifting from panel to panel. Almost teetering as you shift weight from rail to rail. I dug rail a few times because of this (likely combo-ed with the fatness of the surf). all though the conditions were not ideal it was still a ton of fun, very different.

Here is a link To The Sandwich Jones Experience Click Here

Weber Bat Tail

Looks like the Vee starts about 1/3 from the tail

Lots o Vee on this board

A danger to yourself and to others. This board is massive. It’s thick, wide, heavy, and awesome. If you want a board that demands respect, this is looking at you square in the face.

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Trace and Chad Marshall are the current movers and shakers at Malibu. Everything they do, people take note. This is there signature board, sit up and take a notice.

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Dimensions
8′ x 22 ½” x 3 ¼”
Materials
IXPE deck with 10 lb. density for extra strength
EPS core for durability
HDPE bottom
New heat laminated sealing system, no glue was used
Fins
3 Polyurethane fins
2 + 1 simulation set up
Stringers
3 solid treated stringers
Resists water logging and warping

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Want a wicked nose rider? The Nosedevil is an ultimate nose riding board. The board is meant for “Toes On The Nose”! Paddle in set up and lock in for mind bending nose rides.

Wide nose with dished out concave 50/50 rails and a nose rider fin. The name says it all.

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