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cgoudie1
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Location: Killer Sturgeon Cove
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 Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:40 am Post subject: Who knows about the Naish Hybrid Wave 2006-2007? |
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I am tempted, by a really inexpensive price, and my Custom Gorge board
is probably not going to make another entire season. Who knows this board, and what did you think of it? The 2007 is a little longer and has a single to double concave (my favorite bottom shape), but what I really
see is that they're very wide and very short. The board was discontinued
(or maybe I should say morphed into the Global Wave) in 2008.
I've never met a Naish board I didn't like.
What say ye?
-Craig |
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bonner
Joined: 17 May 2000
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| If you get a good price on any Global Wave, I highly recommend you buy it. The board is amazing, it does everything very well. handles chop better than the Pro Wave, awsome in the waves, great in the gorge, and very durable. A little tip, if you really want to make this board rock, put just a bit smaller fin on it, the stock one is a little big for my taste. Sadly, the folks at Naish can't leave a good thing alone and discontinued it in 2009, or morphed it into the "Koncept", lame... |
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Number-nine
Joined: 09 Aug 1989
Posts: 496
Location: cape cod
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:11 pm Post subject: |
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I had a few sessions on the hybrid wave back when it first came out
That was not an easy board to ride. Very technical
It was slow to plane and very little volume in the nose
I recall that it seemed to be shaped for wave riding.
Not good as an all arounder which was the intent.
Not a board I would want even if it were free
That is all I remember. |
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U2U2U2
Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 5467
Location: Shipsterns Bluff, Tasmania. Colorado
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| Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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their are several Naish boards that are rather interesting located there, but none more so than the Hybrid Wave, true it is short 220 for the 84L, 225 for the 96L, width is typical for the liters 59 and 62.
My Angulo AmiGu 224X58 80L and is easy peasy to ride.
I will keep the secret, I got mine in 96L about a month ago. It is measured and will soon have 2 additional boxes , AKA slot boxes and be a trailing tri fin, a twin or a single.
I think it was ahead of its time. It looks really trick now I have removed all the stickers on the top, its almost all white.
amazing price!!!!
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isobars
Joined: 12 Dec 1999
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| Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 10:09 am Post subject: |
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| cgoudie1 wrote: | I am tempted, by a really inexpensive price
What say ye? |
First choice: Buy for performance and condition rather than price.
Second choice: Buy for price if it's extremely cheap AND has a good rep AND you can sell it with minimal loss (a profit is nice, too).
Third choice: Gamble, if losing is acceptable.
Really inexpensive prices are so common here that I'm picky about what boards I buy even at $100, let alone a whopping $500*. Despite that, I own more carefully selected, fantastic (by my criteria, which are all that count) boards now than I could wear out in 30 years of trying; my board bucket list is pretty much checked off (otherwise I'd never be touting this goldmine publicly). I even have a geriatric board I bought and kept just for its exceptionally silky ride, a lightly used Rutger Wave @ $75. It's a little tame for me now, but I'm gonna love it when my knees are 75.
* My four carefully selected Naish wave boards cost me $10, $190, $250, and $675 (I bought that one new w/warranty after a several-week free trial). All are dry and three of them look almost unused. I bought the split-nosed (but dry) $10 board as a cheap gamble, patched it quick'n'dirty, couldn't wipe the grin off my face after my first session on it, so I bought its clone looking almost new for $190.
Some swap meets are full of Naishes, some are not. As the man said, "You've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?" The flip side of that coin is that even if a swap meet doesn't have one specific board on your short list, it will have another one ... or five (don't ask how I know that). The keys include building that list, ignoring friends who want to chat at swap meets, and concentrating instead on beating me to a great board at a good to great price. It took me 2-3 years of swap meets to find the specific year and size of JP FSW I had chosen, but it's mine now after I found two of them at one meet this summer. I watched one board I absolutely love (I already had mine) drop in price by 75% in four hours at one meet. Patience, grasshopper.
If that Hybrid Wave is cheap enough to consider it a total gamble, then consider it as such and snap it up. I usually base my selections on multiple reviews, but sometimes I've gone with my gut. One of my very favorites was the latter, a new-looking total custom Rogue Wave carbon for less than the price of the wave fin it came with. Turned out to be the shaper's personal board.
I can't quite put my finger on it, but for some strange reason I love finding a truly superior board for $100 after demoing multiple famous $2,000 boards I didn't like. Maybe this HW will be your new best board. |
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U2U2U2
Joined: 06 Jul 2001
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U2U2U2
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VinceSF
Joined: 05 Apr 2005
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Location: Maui, HI
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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I had one and loved it.
I left it on the roof in the sun so the board bottom is delam'ed but I might try to repair it this winter. My wave board is 74 liter and the naish was 84. I can truly say the 84 felt more like 80, maybe due to its short length.
Though the 74 i own is even shorter at 214 so I am used to sail short board.
I would say go for it. the board is light and you will get use to the short length. |
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alnov
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U2U2U2
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