New 2017 Naish vids.

Nice paddles ..is it ok to have 4 ?

like the purple .

Strange how on the video on here about the Maliko it says the rocker hasn't changed but on the Kite Republic vid it says the tail rocker has been straightened out ???

Great vids Jase.
Trav's found his calling. (next brisbane weather girl i reckon)

Jokes aside, awesome.

Just need to sign you up for some Fanatic ones.

Thanks very much. So the main difference so far from these pictures is that the 2017 has much harder rails in the nose?

The outline looks like maybe it's a little different too (?) but of course one board is 26" wide and the other is 28" so maybe it's just the way the pics appear because of that -?

So, I'm guessing that the logic of the 2017 range is that the Javelin has been made more flat-water specialist, and the Maliko more DW/open-water oriented, and the all-rounder in the range will now be the Glide -?

If so, that makes sense. But they could maybe add a 14x27 Glide that is the same shape as the 14x29, to compete with the All Star type all-rounder for the rec racer, smaller touring paddler, and/or someone on a budget.

But this Maliko seems aimed fairly and squarely at the Bark Vapor/JL Sidewinder etc market, and these boards are just so versatile and pleasant to paddle that I can see it being very popular. Unless you are an avid racer, why would you buy a tippy board that can only cope with a narrow range of conditions when you could have a board that can cope with a much wider range, is more relaxing to paddle, and is almost as fast in flat water? As the cohort of "ex-racers" inevitably grows (most adults don't have the time, money, mental and physical energy, or physical durability to race even semi-seriously for more than two or three seasons), I can see market share of this kind of board growing. Well done Naish.

I'm not sure I'd call the Maliko a true DW open ocean board.. It's more of a race board with the Jav being their flat water race board the Maliko is a DW race board or can be used as a more stable flat water board.. You will see in my other pics Naish have made a few small changes to the bottom.. The original Maliko (2016) was a great board and very fast but if there's one thing that wasn't a big fan of is that the nose doesn't like to pearl at speed like the Glides or my past Jav's.. The new nose shape has fixed that small issue and now the nose is happy to poke it's nose under without slowing or splashing much.. The definite v under the nose is gone and replaced with a rolled v or belly..

The new chamfer/chime not only helped with the nose by making it more pointy it helps stopping water sucking around the nose rail because there's now two sharper edges for water release.. The new belly under the nose helps with wide stroking the nose around and helps reduce any catching.. Once past the nose area the big single concave is now a shallower double concave and there is slightly more v before the fin.. This allowed the board to go from rail to rail to surf left and right slightly better..

I haven't measured it but the new new board feels like it has slightly more rocker.. and although there's slightly more volume this year my new 28" wide board is an inch wider in the tail over my 2016 26" wide board.. This was very noticable and much better IMO..

One more thing that chamfer/chime gives the board full width when stopped but once planing they reduce the overall width by heaps making it as fast as a much narrower board.. I think Naish did good..

Is there just one chine or more? It's a clever idea for a DW board and I wonder why it's not been used before. I'm no expert, but my impression was that chines, and especially multi-chine hulls, are used in boats to aid planing as well as release of water. So if the nose going under and slowing was an issue with the 2016, then one way to help this might be to provide more opportunity for planing at the nose (no doubt alongside the belly that DJ notes - the belly on the Angulo Shaka for instance works really well to prevent pearling).

I can see the argument that chines might create surfaces that would catch when turning or in eg. cross-chop. But presumably if they are done at the right angle (fairly low down) and subtly, then it shouldn't be too much of an issue. It clearly isn't too much of a problem in the boating world, at least. And there are other DW boards with very sharp rails all the way to the tip (eg. the M14) which actually behave very well in cross-chop. Actually, I think that hard rails in the nose can actually help in quartering wind because they can exaggerate rail steer, so you can use it to your advantage. So it actually seems possible to me that the 2017 Maliko might even be better than the 2016 one for quartering wind and swell. I look forward to finding out.

Another thing that presumably helps in turning the board is that the Maliko nose seems to skate along the surface of the water rather than being submerged the full length? I guess it will depend on your weight and where you stand though.

Did an upwind slog on my V2 today. All I could keep thinking about was how good it would be to have a nose like the new Jav slicing instead of the V2 slapping!