You like how it moved? Buy your own replica!
How about the buzz around Mick Fanning’s little channel bottom at J-Bay? It was like a teaspoon of the best honey straight from the hive.
Snapper aside, there isn’t a wave more suited to the Darren Handley-Mick Fanning combo than three-foot runners along Supertubes’ sand-rock bottom. It could’ve been little Snapper, Kirra, Burleigh.
Handley, in case you were wondering, knows how to liberate fins, knows how to peel apart a good point wave, and his surfboards reflect this skill. Fanning, of course, has won four J-Bay titles.
Now, DHD is selling a “limited run” of the J-Bay winning board. Fanning rode a DucksNuts 5’9″ x 18 7/8″ x 2 5/16″ (26.8 litres) with a swallow tail, channel bottom and super light 4 x 4 glassing, but you can climb aboard these dimensions too.
5’7 x 18 5/8 x 2 1/4 25.5
5’9 x 18 7/8 x 2 5/16 26.8 ( Micks File )
5’10 x 19 x 2 5/16 27.8
5’11 x 19 1/8 x 2 3/8 28.5
6’0 x 19 1/4 x 2 7/16 29.8
6’1 x 19 3/8 x 2 7/16 30.8
6’2 x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2 32
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damn Derek how much does it cost for advertorial?
Does it give you the patented mick hunch?
Channels = Pissed off sanders
…and that’s why its a limited run.
Absolutely. But they work pretty well on point breaks…
As if regular Joe’s could even ride that much less ride it well. Been my experience that pro boards just don’t go well, probably because I’m not that good at surfing.
I was thinking the same thing. Next year they will be on Craigslist- For Sale: Mick Fanning Model, Mint, only ridden 5 times. Go-Pro Mount included.
lol Go Pro Mount.
I’d say out of all “pro Models” out there that this particular one would translate reasonably well for the working man.
Why so?
Maybe you’d add a bit more volume but otherwise it’s not a trimmed down, unforgiving matchstick, I’d ride one whereas I’d never ride one of Fannings all rounders.
Why is it a limited run? Can you not order surfboards to whatever specifications you choose anymore?
Sadly, it does not come with a dose of Mick’s frightening technical power surfing ability.
And me having just decided that it might be time to permanently ride a fish. Feeling like a wounded manatee every time i get on a younger less rotund mans shortboard. Ahh what to do – admit defeat or soldier on in hope of enlightenment!
Hope you scored one yourself for this D so you can make the most of the long, fast & walled up runners of Bondi.