Firewire AWT Helium Seaside Surfboard – Futures

Description

The Seaside from Machado & Firewire is a refined, performance quad, that has its roots in the Go Fish and is built in the Helium Flex Technology. With less area in the tail [than the go fish] a narrower swallow and nose – the seaside is all about ripping, whilst keeping the true to vibe of the Go Fish and Rob’s ethos of fast, loose fun. Built for 4 fins, the concave and contours are all redesigend with a quad setup in mind.
Dimensions:
5’2x 20 x 2 5/16 –26.5L
5’3x 20 5/16 x 2 3/8 –28.2L
5’4x 20 5/8 x 7/16 –29.8L
5’5x 20 15/16 x 2 1/2 –31.5L
5’6x 21 1/4 x 2 1/2 –32.7L
5’7x 21 5/8 x 2 1/2 –33.6L
5’8x 21 15/16 x 2 9/16 –35.4L
5’9x 22 1/4 x 2 5/8 –37.3L
5’10x 22 5/8 x 2 11/16 –39.4L
5’11x 22 3/4 x 2 3/4 –41.1L
6’0x 22 7/8 x 2 15/16 –44.8L
6’1x 22 15/16 x 3 –46.5L
Helium Flex Technology
Firewire’s Helium construction is a breakthrough in extremely lightweight and durable performance epoxy technology. By pairing existing features from the highly successful FST (Future Shapes Technology) build process with an alternative sandwich skin material, Firewire has created Helium construction which uses this new composite in conjunction with a redesigned parabolic wood rail that includes both Balsa and Paulownia woods. The end result is that Helium has a 15% weight reduction over FST, a slightly faster flex and rebound characteristic, as well as a higher breakpoint. Lighter, stronger and more responsive… Helium is the future under your feet.

Hey Rob – whats the Seaside?
Just evolving the Go Fish to something new, really. The Go Fish goes fast and feels skatey and loose and I love it, and riding it for a couple years made me want to feel more high performance – more carves, tighter turns. So the Seaside is about refining… less area in the tail, narrowing the tips of the swallow, creating more curve and narrowing the nose. All elements for ripping while the Go Fish stays cruisey and fun
And the seaside is quad only – why?
I decided that if i was going to make a quad I would make a quad that’s strictly a quad … Design the concaves and bottom contours around that. I actually redesigned my entire concave setup that I’ve been using on the Moonbeam and Go Fish, and did it with the quad setup in mind so that it all works together.
Why is the Seaside built in Helium?
The first one I made for Tahiti was LFT and I was riding it in 6 foot tubes. But most everyone surfs a shape like the Seaside at beach breaks and little point breaks, so we made it in Helium because it’s really light, very responsive, really flexy with a softer feel and very durable. It’s the best option for a shape like the Seaside in smaller, weaker waves
AWT – “ARTIFICIAL WAVE TECHNOLOGY”
These boards are build specifically for wave pools/parks and standing waves. They have reinforced parabolic wooden rails, wooden nose and tail blocks with carbon fiber reinforcement. The fin box has reinforced high density inserts for extra fin box support. and carbon fiber reinforced lamination.
BOARD BREAKDOWN:
Ability: Intermediate/Advanced/Expert
Ideal Wave Size: 2-6ft
Construction: AWT Helium Technology – EPS Foam/Parabolic wood rails/High Density Composite Deck Skin
Volume: 26.5 to 46.5 Ltrs
Bottom Contours: Single to Deep Double Concave
Rails: Medium/Standard
Tail Shape: Swallow
Fin System: FUTS Four Fin Boxes
Fin Set-up: Quad
Fins included: No