7’4″ FM Love Machine Surfboard (USED)

£595.00

The 7’4 FM is slap bang in the middle of the FM range and is a great combination of everything that makes the FM models such compelling surfboards. It’s length gives it great trim and wave catching ability, but its healthy width and pulled in tail also give it plenty of maneuverability and carving appeal. For such a long board its relatively thin, meaning volume is low, making this a really easily handling board despite its larger dims. The lower volume does mean the rails are a little more foiled than your standar FM, which gives this a FM a smoother carving nature than some of the looser chunkier models. The thinner rails also give this model really good bigger wave ability making the 7’4 one of the if not the most versatil of all the FM models.

Small or big, weak or strong, the 7’4 FM is a super fun and versatile mid-length capable of excelling in a vast range of wave types. This particular board was a customer board who decided they wanted another 7’4 in slightly wider dims. In that respect, it has been surfed a little, no more than a couple of months, and has some dimples on the deck to show for it. The bottom is pretty much spotless though and we would consider it in excellent condition. Has been checked thoroughly and has had no repairs.

7’4″ x 22″ x 2 3/4″ = 45.42 L

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Notes from Ryan: “The FM isn’t a ‘channel bottom’ in the classical sense – the channel is there as a break for water flow, but it isn’t doing for the board what most designers are chasing in the deeper more exaggerated channel bottoms that are so popular right now. This design sports a pretty hefty spiral vee in the back half of the board, and while that is amazing for rail transitions and feel, it creates suction between the board and wave; the channel breaks that water flow that is sucking onto the board, so you get the three-dimensional value of the spiral vee and its rolling sensation, but without the stickiness. You’ll notice the 7’2 has a straight channel as opposed to the curved one that most have become accustomed to in seeing the FM; the first 15 or so boards all had a straight channel like this, and as Pat’s was in that batch, so I’m running with it for this model as we’re making dead on 1 for 1 copies.”

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