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Surf Carter EPS

Name: GONG - Surf Carter EPS
Brand: GONG
SKU: GON24BOASURCAREPSWHI-68
Price: 349.0 EUR
Availability: InStock
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Surf with ease and style by blending carves and speed. Also enjoy great paddling comfort.

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389€

Taille 6'8

5'6
6'0
6'8
7'3
7'8
8'3
9'0
9'8

Surf

Specifications

6'8 | 205.3cm
22 1/16" | 56.0cm
2 13/16" | 7.2cm
Volume: 50.0L

Rider

Beginner

Intermediate

Expert

30kg

55kg

105kg

130kg

Conditions

Wave size

Knee

Waist

Overhead

Wave speed

Slow

Moderate

Fast

Wave shape

Soft

Steep

Hollow

Aptitudes

Paddling comfort

Verticality

Carving

Cruising

Drive

Natural speed

Program

In action

Description

Program

Surf with ease and style by blending carves and speed. Also enjoy great paddling comfort.

Presentation

If you were to plan a round the world trip, the Carter would be the no-brainer choice for your boardbag! This shape is designed to perform every day, whatever the conditions. Whether you’re surfing a cool beach break, a hollow reef or a fast point break, the Carter can handle it all. This is the one board quiver you’re looking for!

Ideal Waves

Size: from knee high ++ to head high and way more.
Power: it’s at its best in all types of waves.
Shape: it can handle it all but glassy waves are what you’re looking for.

Sleek shape

Stylish lines but above all performance with a flawless glide. The Carter is shaped for perfect carves. Smooth and easy to paddle, radical turns are right up its alley if you want to take it there. Both simple and effective. In small sizes, the Carter will easily replace your shortboard, but with more style and roundness. In intermediate sizes, we enter the world of mid-lengths, pleasure and efficiency. And in larger sizes, make way for the cruiser and its endless glide.

Rocker: very progressive for the most natural carves possible.

Rails: thin to only think about carves.

Volume: harmoniously distributed and placed mainly at the front 2/3, generous but without excess for an early take-off and crazy performances.

Outline: a beautiful round pin tail to combine carves and speed, a relatively thin and advanced max width for stability at high speed, and a sufficiently supportive nose to get going from afar.

Tail: rounded pin tail to combine speed and maneuverability.

Nose: rounded point nose for paddling fast and coping with steep waves.

Deck: domed to maintain thin rails and thickness in the center.

Bottom: double concave at the tail for maximum control, vee in the center for good rail-to-rail rocking, and belly at the nose for a soft touch at high speeds.

Fins: single + 2 side fins

Thin rails

At first glance, its lines with a harmonious outline stand out. The shape feels perfectly balanced. It reveals a subtle mix of old school lines and performance; of tradition and modernity. The Carter adapts to your level, from the average surfer to the most experienced. With a comfortable outline and smooth carves, the Carter retains its accessible and versatile character, but its revisited shape becomes more feline, more incisive.

Round pin tail

With a tri-fin set-up, it’s stunning and 100% modern. The 2+1 fin set-up makes it a very round board in the carves while maintaining acceleration. Set up with twin fins, you get a magical glide and an extraordinary flow. In single, you open the doors wide open for style. A must have in a quiver, the board for those who love glide and magical carves.

EPS Surf Technology

High Quality Material : EPS Blanks, Epoxy Resin, Fiber Glass, Patented FCS2 Boxes. Materials chosen for their compatibility with our design specifications.

This is the most modern technology designed for the most technical surfers looking for the best performance in small to medium waves.

Technical details :

100% Epoxy resin over 28kg/m3 Polystyrene foam blank.
Wood Stringer, high quality and 3-5mm for limiting folding.
Deck detail : 2 layers of 6oz fiberglass plus 1 layer of 4oz.
Hull detail : 1 layer of 6oz fiberglass plus 1 layer of 4oz.
Reinforcements : a large patch of fiberglass covers the tail and the fin boxes.
Rail detail: 5 layers of deck + hull overlap with wide strips.
Pre-shape by digital control, and shape controlled by traditional templates, 100% hand finished.
Mat finish for a better glide, less sensitive to scratching, comp look.
This techno is easily repairable, most notably with UV Resin.
Hydrophilic foam blank that will oblige you to get out of the water quickly in case of damage.
Foam blank will melt if in contact with Acetone or Polyester Resin. Epoxy Only.
Excellent blend for the best solidity/dynamism/weight while keeping in the forefront the characteristics of the shape.
Resin that is 6 times more dynamic than Polyester.
These boards are produced in China in the most experienced and specialized surfboard factory.

Technical sheet

Surf Carter EPS 6'8

VERSION 6’8

Longueur : 6’8 = 205,3 cm
Largeur : 22 1/16 = 56 cm
Epaisseur : 2 13/16″ = 7,2 cm
Volume : 50 litres
One foot off avant : 16 13/16″ = 42,7 cm
One foot off arrière : 14 11/16″ = 37,3 cm
Rocker total : 19,4 cm
Deck : domé pour conserver des rails fins et de l’épaisseur au centre.
Bottom : double concave au tail pour un maximum de contrôle, Vé au centre pour une bonne bascule rail sur rail, et belly au nose pour un toucher doux à hautes vitesses.
Tail : rounded pin tail.
Nose : rounded point nose.
Dérive : single + 2 latérales.
Poids EPS : 4,3 kg (poids indicatif à + ou – 5%).

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Buying guide

For whom?

Into surf culture, its history, beautiful boards, fluid lines and style?

It is even suitable for a beginner who wants to treat himself with a beautiful board that she/he will keep for the rest of her/his life. So if you have a good level of surfing, you will love it.

Good surfers and pros love the Carter for its rounded, relaxed and stylish lines. Everything is easy and it works all the time.

For what?

Drop very early! The Carter is unbeatable in this area. It is the first board to glide and the first one back in the line-up. A great paddler that can beat longboarders and SUPers.

Link beautiful carves together, in a magical roundness.

Cruise down-the-line and just enjoy its magical glide, sometimes with a nice cheater hang five in the pocket.

To not switch to an SUP board or a longboard and keep a style of surfing based on carves and wave work.

Traveling with a single board can be a challenge in difficult conditions but it builds up an osmosis with a board that’s easy in 95% of waves.

Which size?

Below 6’8 to favor turns. It’s still a shortboard but very soft.

From 6’8 to 8’3 we are clearly talking about mid-lengths, halfway between the quality of glide of a longboard and the turns of a shortboard. The board to do everything easily!!!

From 9′ to 9’8 we switch to a cruiser style of board, a long board which drops before everyone else and which cruises down-the-line for beautiful cutbacks and re-entries.

What are the perfect waves for it?

Size: from knee high to double overhead.

Power: it works in all types of waves but prefers waves with some power, without pushing it to scary slabs.

Shape: it can handle it all but glassy waves are what you’re looking for.

Which fin set-up?

One of the advantages of the 2+1 set-up is that you can experiment with several fin set-ups:

The 2+1 fin set-up is the one that will bring the most versatility to the board. It offers excellent grip when engaging a turn on the rail. It will be faster than a single set-up because the side fins boost acceleration by pulling the rail towards the inside of the curve. The central fin is less massive than for a single fin set-up, therefore more playful. And this is a key factor: the distribution of surfaces between the three fins. The more surface we put in the central fin, the more stable and progressive the 2+1 set-up will be. The more surface we put in the side fins (and therefore less on the central one), the more playful and faster the 2+1 will be. A large central fin acts a bit like an autopilot which will smooth out your line.
The single fin set-up is often favored on noseriders, boards on which we will look for maximum glide before planning on the fins. A sufficiently deep fin also allows you to stabilize the tail of your board at the top of a wave without skidding, thus leaving maximum time to stay on the nose. We also see single setups on glider boards, mid-lengths designed to glide down the line and engage long turns. In this case we will choose a single fin with a lot of rake so as not to lock the carves.
On mid-length boards like the Carter, you can even consider switching to a twin set-up with two large side fins. This set-up is less stable but it offers a lot of natural glide and a lot of drive when you put the board on the rail to catch a section. This is in theory the fastest setup because it generates less drag than the 2+1 setup. You might wanna check with your GPS watches! ?
The trifin set-up, made of three fins of the same depth and generally the same outline, offers maximum maneuverability. This is the ideal setup to cut the carves short and radicalize your surfing as much as possible. In this case, move the central fin way back so as not to have an uncontrollable board.

Which shape to choose?

Carter or Pie?

Though the Pie is also available in a wide range of lengths, it is very different from the Carter. It’s rather complementary. We love the Pie for its acceleration, especially on flat sections. Its tail makes you fly at mach 12. In the high end, it can give you such lift that it will make tightening carves or holding on to vertical faces without slowing down difficult. This is where the Carter offers a different choice with its almost pinched tail. You won’t get going as early as with a Pie, but it will offer unlimited control in hollow sections and at high speed.

So beyond an obvious choice depending on the type of waves encountered, soft waves for the Pie and powerful for the Carter, you must focus on the style. A Pie will naturally generate speed while a Carter will need to be stimulated. In reality, we will mainly surf them in two different sections of the wave. We will surf the Pie on so-called horizontal turns, with a lot of pressure on the back foot and on rather flat sections. And conversely we will surf the Carter in the pocket, as close as possible to the curl, with a lot of pressure on the front foot. Two very different styles ?

Carter or shortboard?

The Carter has many of the characteristics of a shortboard, but without ever really being one. With what we call a shortboard, of competition type, we seek explosiveness while we seek for glide and fluidity with a Carter.

So even on seemingly similar dimensions, we will have a completely different feeling and produce very different turns. From there to saying that the Carter is the cool version of the shortboard, there is only one step.

Carter or longboard?

The Carter in larger sizes is close to a longboard, but it will paddle much faster. We’re going to drop early, that’s obvious. It will also hold better on hollow waves with its nose which grips less and which is reassuring. It’s obvious in tubes where we have real aptitude in Carter whereas it’s rather counterintuitive or sketchy when on a longboard.

Another major difference is the restriction of the range of possible maneuvers with the Carter compared to a longboard. Even if a few cheater hang fives can look great on the Carter, we are far from being able to pull the full range of moves on the nose we could with a longboard. But if these moves don’t appeal to you that much, the Carter is probably the best choice.

Which bag ?

Equipments

These boards are equipped with a leash plug and 2 FCS II fin boxes + 1 US box. Depending on your desires and your surfing style, the FCSII fin catalog then allows you to go for pro model fins signed by emblematic surfers.

This board comes with a mid-range FCS Glass Flex set and a GONG central fin, 100% of fiber, that you can complete with high-end fiber fins for the best performance.

1 center US box for all types of fin set-ups.
2 lateral FCS II boxes.
2 lateral FCS II Glass Flex fins.
1 Center Fin US GONG 4,5″ full fiber for the three smallest sizes: 5’6, 6’0 and 6’8.
1 Center Fin US GONG 7″ full fiber from the 7’3.
Concrete Fixed Plug on the tail for your leash.

Delivery

Delivery delay

We indicate a preparation and shipping time of 3 working days. In reality, the majority of orders are shipped within 24/48 hours.

The delivery time, i.e. delivery time of the package to your home, then depends on the delivery location and the carrier.

We work with reliable and efficient carriers. 99% of shipments go perfectly and quickly. In the case of the remaining 1%, rest assured that we will do what is necessary with the carrier.

Shipping fees

Unlike other sites, shipping costs are not hidden behind the price of our products. You know exactly what shipping costs you, and you are not disadvantaged if you choose to collect your order at our GONG Space Center.

Shipping costs are calculated based on the weight and volume of each package, and your delivery address.

Tracking your package

Delivery tracking is managed directly by the carriers to whom we have entrusted your packages. They will contact you by email or SMS to allow you to choose delivery methods and follow the route of your package.

Carriers

We work with the best transport societies to deliver to you throughout Europe and the world within very short deadlines. We chose them for their quality of service and their compliance with deadlines.

For mainland France, 80% of your orders arrive at their destination in less than 48 hours of processing.

For Europe, delivery times vary from 3 to 6 working days, depending on the country of destination.

For the rest of the world, delivery times depend on transit time and customs clearance time. This delay depends on customs and can last from a few days to a few weeks depending on the destination and seasonality.

Please note, transport time is added to preparation/shipping time. Two companies collaborate on your order (GONG and the carrier). Each one masters its activity and is committed to optimizing its deadlines so that you are delivered as quickly as possible and at a reasonable price.

Eco-responsible packaging

Preserving the environment is an absolute priority. This is why we do everything possible to reduce our ecological footprint.

The most important thing is to sell quality, durable products that will be repairable and will please you for a long time.

For our shipments, we use:

Scotch craft paper.

Final packaging in high-end cardboard.

For rigid boards: Flexi-Hex, very high resistance ecological packaging.

This means:

Reusable and recyclable packaging.

An almost total reduction in single-use plastic.

Maximum protection and impact resistance for rigid boards thanks to the innovative Flexi-Hex honeycomb design (35mm thick).

Receipt of your product

Upon delivery, check the condition of your package in the presence of the carrier. A complete explanation email on the procedure to follow will be sent to you when your order is shipped.

Despite our requirements and all the care we take in the packaging and protection of your product, transport hazards may occur, and your product may suffer more or less significant transport damage.

Note that the products are protected in their carton. If you have any doubts, simply refuse delivery and contact us.

More infos

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