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Even though my speargun quiver is only one purchase away from double digits, I always find myself going back to this beauty. And their custom blue water guns!
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Over the next few years Dan shaped me about a dozen boards, from small wave ripper boards, to barrel hunter semi-guns, to pin tail terror sleds, each one perfectly suited to a bigger guy who actually knows how to surf fairly well. Especially in thundering North swells. Honestly, I think every surfer should have one of these guys in their quiver. Bruce Raymond, do you know?
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Gamo Big Cat. And, oh sweet jumping jeebus, the bread that comes out of this fucker! But what I don't personal get but I put down to a greed for money, power or status is why people continue to seek wealth when they already have enough to live happily off for the rest of their lives and why they can ignore poverty and suffering all the while. Why buy a new surfboard? Why upgrade, change fins? As TB says, why chase better or different waves? While in the corporate or business world it may seem like it is all about the money, truth is, the leaders in the business or company, CEO, Board of Directors, are in those jobs because they like doing something new or different, want a challenge or want something better.
Sure, the money helps. In fact, the strategy is usually always sold to stakeholders based on the money aspects, such as "economies of scale", "brand integration", "vertical integration", "better ROI", "shareholder value", etc They're not exactly going to come out and say, "hey, we're bored and want a new challenge, so thought we'd give this a try" Would you buy Shares in the company if the Board of Directors annual report said that?
Shapers fins are better anyway as they have a lot more thought into the design and easy to get. The old two tab system is heaps better, just ask Channel Islands. I'm still getting my boards done with old plugs where I can. I agree Ben, my mate has lost 4 fins so far, FCS has replaced them every time but now he used the screws as well, which defeats the purpose. Much prefer the old system. The main problem with the old plugs was that the bond to the board could crack easily requiring the plug to be refitted.
If you didn't pick this up, depending on the foam type, you could soak up a lot of water very quickly. My experience with fcs 11s is more limited but so far they seem better designed to avoid that issue.
Also given the pressure necessary to get the fins into the box it seems unlikely that they would come out easily Not a happy arrangement. I found it hard to get the positions precise. Ha ha I didn't even know you weren't supposed to use screws. If you can knock them in Use screws! I was just putting some fcs11s into a new board and it came to me how ironic it that their new system is supposed to depend on friction to hold the fin in. The reason being that the founders of fcs, or Gorilla Grip as it was then, used to produce home made boards as teenagers.
I had one shaped by Gary Mountford that had a fin box that was simply a slot constructed out of chop strand. The fins we used were made out of marine ply and we would jam them into the slot with a piece of chamois It was cheap and easy to make a stack of fins and just stick another one in if it came out.
So 45 years later the company they founded goes back to essentially the same idea. Has anyone had the 'peanut' fitting for FCS1 put in? I'm finding that more robust than the individual plugs. Surfstitch have just bought Maddogs in Byron Bay. They are apparently doing a swell shop. Thought this may be of interest to you. I wonder who will be shaping the Mark Richards boards now.
For years they have been made by the guys at Maddogs. Will Surfstitch be making Maddog boards??? I'd rather the fin fail under impact than the plug pull out of the board. Having said that, every single set of fcs style fins I've ever had has cracked around the top of the tabs. Disappointingly, that also now includes fcsII. Fucking Greed , thats the fundamental problem with the world , look at woolies and coles they want to own eveything aswell!
Shop at your local surf store and go see a local shaper and smell the resin and smell the wax behind the counter and for gods sake stop buying on line. Not convinced. I thought the same as you however person to person service and friendships are always going to be around. I now try to everything through my local unless it is specialised. Gets me out and about to chew the fat. I think the big anonymous shops are dying however the boutique are growing.
Surfstitch was only founded in , I'd suggest that the local shaper and surf shop was feeling the pinch well before that I do buy off local shapers, and as yet, never bought an overseas manufactured board. Even a core part of the traditional surf industry, Billabong, bought a minority holding in and helped with their global expansion. Change is a constant, has been the case in surfing since, well, the late 60's.
Woolworths and Coles are under pressure from a range of new entries into the country, most notably Aldi and Costco and this will continue. Competition should bring out the best.
Buy a yacht and go surfing. Love to, if I had a yacht, a boating licence, no fear of sinking in the middle of nowhere, no mortgage, no wife and kids, no commitments, no time to post here Competition will bring out what ever behaviours, strategies or policies an agent has at their disposal to take on the competition.
The outcomes to customers, suppliers or even to the competing businesses are not always the "best" outcomes. Nothing to do with SurfStich Midcoast surf have called it a day.. Wow, sorry to hear the news. Never rode a Genesis board but had a few mates who had plenty of 'em over the years. I remember Rick Ford doing 'surf' lessons for half a dozen of us in Year 11 Sports dunno how we scored that! Rick and Mark been stalwarts of the industry for decades. Why would their board do that when it now appears that Surfstitch is way more successful than what was the parent company and was clearly trending that way when Bbong sold them back?
Without knowing the full workings of Billabong they either sold there share as part of the listing, kept it in the listed entity, or a combination of both sold part, kept part. They may have use whatever equity they received for other purposes in the company I'm assuming pay down debt. They would have significant overheads. I do agree it seems cheap but they might either have a bunch of liabilities that the new buyer is taking on or the business isn't hugely profitable which would, in both cases, reduce the price.
Thanks for that analysis Shelby - I still find it incredibly ironic that company Billabong not long ago owned majority of Surfstitch - have now sold it and have been overtaken in value by the same. To me it reads of more like complete idiots at the helm of Bbong selling off an item that actually had a greater future than the flagship. B2B: No worries. The founders bought out Billabong on listing as well as Billabong's North Americas on-line site, Swell. I agree with you about the irony on Billabong selling out of what currently appears to be a company in a strong global growth phrase, but then again, I'm not in the board room at Billabong and don't have access to their company strategy maybe focus on manufacture and not distribution?
Your guess is as good as mine. Interesting too that the share price dropped so much today, when they actually reported some good news:. Well, this last sentence is interesting. SurfStitch acquired Surfdome and Swell in November So none of these businesses "were part of the group as of July ".
But the bargain hunters seem to have arrived — and they may have picked up an absolute bargain, given the potential growth Surfstitch is aiming for. Funny thing is, the same bloke wrote the following on Friday after the share price tumbled:. Surfstitch Group Ltd share price smashed despite soaring revenues. Whilst it is obviously a high risk potentially high return play, investors might want to make space in their portfolios for Surfstitch. Surfstitch chairman Howard McDonald said on Thursday Mr Cameron had resigned from all positions with immediate effect and was considering a potential acquisition of the company.
Mr McDonald said Surfstitch had not yet received any formal or informal proposal from, nor had any discussions with, private equity in relation to a potential acquisition of the company. Broken fins from air travel were a thing of the past.
You could finally fit multiple boards into a surfboard bag. You could experiment with fin sizes and get creative. The original Fin Control System was unbelievably simple. Simply push a fin into the fin box and tighten the screws.
In many ways the first version of the system was easier than the second. FCS2 arrived on the scene as a way to forgo those little screwdrivers and simply click the fin into the box. It is a great idea and helped FCS deal with the influx of cheap copycat fins that had flooded the market — but FCS2 have proven to be a bit more hard on the hands. In fact, some companies have invented fin pulling devices to solve this pain point literally.
FCS2 branched into apparel and made some rather fine caps, leg ropes and t-shirts.
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