Goya 2015 Custom Quads

I've have had the new Goya 2015 78l and 104l Custom Quads for about a month now. Used them in starboard and port tack conditions from waist to logo high conditions, cross-on to sideshore, from 5.3 down to 4.0. I'm around 83kgs. Not really into jumping, more riding.

78L: My go-to board for where I live (Wellington, NZ). Using this when it's 4.5 and 4.0 conditions (which is most of the time :-)). I have only ridden this board in cross-on at my home break. Before I got this I was on the Quatro LS Quad. Here's some thoughts about it:

- absolutely no loss of speed through the bottom turn. To get vertical in cross-on, a bit of back foot pressure's needed at the end of the turn, while holding power in that twisted sheeted out position. With my old LS, I found it hard to keep speed while trying to get vertical, I'd bog a bit and lose speed. So to keep speed I'd have to go less vertical. The Goya lets you put more pressure on the back foot so you can get tighter, and just keeps on accelerating. So top turns feel that much better cos I'm carrying more speed into them, and getting more vertical. All this means **loads more spray!!!!

- you can micro-steer on the face more easily. ie fine tune your approach to the lip without losing drive or speed.

- the new MFC fins are much better than the old MFC ones that came with my Quatro. More flex (but not too much), lots of drive. I had been using the yellow K4 flexies on my Quatro and loving them, as the old MFC ones were too stiff. Now on this new board, I reckon the new MFCs are much closer to the feeling of the K4's.

- much better balanced for dogging along. It's a pretty short board, so I thought it would be more critical to get your body in the right spot to maintain trim, but the volume distribution seems to be just right not to worry too much about where you are on the board.

104L: I've borrowed older versions of this board at Gnaraloo the past couple of years, and fell in love with it for light wind riding. So I thought I should get myself one. I used it at the Tananaki Wave Classic a couple of weeks ago in head to logo port tack conditions on a 5.3. And also at my local in cross-on, waist to head high waves.

The cool thing about the 104 is that it feels so much smaller than that on a wave (I guess like most high volume wave boards these days?). I can dog out when others are on the beach (like you can on a big board) and then shred the wave (like you can on a smaller board). Turns like something 20 litres smaller.

At my local the other day, the waves were good, it was pretty windy, but super gusty. So I rigged a 4.5 on the 104 to give me the float in the lulls. Over the course of the session, the wind kept filling in, and I expected that the board would start to feel too big for the conditions. But nope, it just kept on doing what I asked it to do. I could have happily kept going on it, but I eventually decided to change down to my 78L, not because it was too much hard work on the 104, but simply because the 78 is always gonna give you better turns when powered up.

It's a pretty big gap between the two boards in terms of volume, but funnily enough it works for me just fine.

Hope that's useful guys and gals.

I think shape the same... fins and straps different.

In small onshore 2cm back of centre to the tighten bottom turn. Haven't had enough d-t-l to play with it.

I think it very much depends on the sails you ride them with.
I have a Quad84 and use my chinook double bolts most of the time as far back as possible.
Reason: i use the with the Hot KS3 that have a very forward pull. When I grab my Firelight with a Cof E more in the middle, I need to put the mastfoot a bit more forward.