6'4" Lovemachine Surfboards Cheet

This lift-focused egg came from a request in 2017 for something fun and approachable for the beach breaks of Japan - softer faces with playful sections and average size in general, something compact that scoots. The Cheet has a really sweet and subtle outline with its wide-point slightly ahead of center. The bottom is focused on maximizing lift - with no neutral or unused space and minimal convex; These stay on top of the water with little pumping and draw out really smooth round lines in a variety of waves. Being a more compact ‘midrange’ board, the goal was to pack a punch in every square inch of this egg’s underside and match that with a broad flat deck that makes up a really stable and predictable platform. The rails are low and with a slight egginess to them, not too sharp or penetrating. The bottom shape is a single entry which transitions into a triple then quadruple concave - the outermost ‘rail’ concaves taper off just ahead of the side fins under the back foot where theres a little lump of spiral vee, which fades to flat behind the center fin.

*Fin Note: The side-fin placement in these is slightly farther back and in from the rail than a ‘normal’ 2+1 setup - this is to allow for riding it as a twin fin as well as 2+1 or single fin. So far the 2+1 has been the favorite, but the board has a lot of room for experimentation with the placement of the fin boxes where they are!