The problem with picking up a board on Ebay is that you can't pick the board up and feel it before you buy. I was looking around for a smaller fish a while back. I came across this little 5'10" fish built by a backyarder down at Phillip Island. Beautiful foiled birchwood ply fins and cedar nose and tail blocks. It was hard to see the rails in the picture and I asked him to list some more so I could get an idea of the board. They looked like what I wanted so I bought the board off him. As soon as I picked up the board I knew the rails were way to foiled down. The board was a fish template with your standard short board rails. I rode the board 3 times in good surf. It had no flow and surfed like a short board with the center fin missing. Nothing like a real fish. Sold it straight away. Fish need some volume in the rails and the right bottom shape. I think rolled V to flat to panel V for a twinnie, or to a double concave for a quad. I don't know why guys like those type of boards. They have no flow and the rails stick.
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