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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: wrybread on February 24, 2021, 07:45:33 PM
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A Jimmy Lewis Mano came up on Craigslist near me, it's exactly like this board:
http://www.standuppaddling.it/content/view/829
I'm not seeing a lot of info about this board online though. Guessing it was discontinued awhile ago?
Any thoughts on how it rides?
I'm about 6 foot, 210 pounds, surf in Northern California and enjoy big surf.
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Guessing it was discontinued awhile ago?
The board is around 10 years old.
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Go for it : )
Jimmy has a way with making good looking boards... and this is one imho. And it fits the gun shape for your big surf days.
Just guessing but it was probably a little esoteric for the mainstream market in its day.
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It says PVC sandwich construction full wrap. I bet it's still in good shape. That's how a bullet proof board is made.
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Purchased! It sure is gunny on the nose. Very squash tail though. Speaking of esoteric boards I also have the Jimmy Lewis Bombora and Son of Bombora, it'll be interesting to see how this compares.
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It's an oldie but a goodie. I rode one that belonged to a friend, probably about 2010, though I don't remember what the length was. I loved it, and almost bought one but I had a new Foote board being built. I remember the board being amazingly light for a full sandwich board, and super firm underfoot. Surpringly stable given that at the time I weighed about 240# and most of my boards were over 10' and 31" wide. It seemed tiny to me, but it paddled and surfed great. Jimmy's production boards are bulletproof.
With that Alladin-slipper nose, it's going to surf like a shorter board.
I suspect Jimmy didn't love this board--he likes to move around. At the time I was trying to progress to shorter boards, but at my weight, I found I had to be glued to one spot with my foot on the kick pad and legs wide in a stinkbug stance with shorter boards. The exception is my 9.0 Foote but that thing looks like a pumpkin seed. I think it's 34" wide.
I think Jack Dyson had one, and he loved it. It wasn't Jack that I swapped with though, I remember his being really tiny, I don't remember who it was.
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Thanks. Super psyched to try it. Of course now there's the traditional days on end of 20 knot onshore winds and/or no swell that follows every one of my board purchases.
Here in Northern CA we went from an absolutely epic early season to weeks of wind swell at best. Argh.
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Damn, I'm in the wrong place.
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Nice! Now you have ALL the Bomboras 8)
Pls report back!