The Seaside was Rob Machado's next evolution from his popular Go Fish Model. The Go Fish proved to be fast and felt skatey,but Rob wanted his next board to offer more performance through carves & tighter turns. So the Seaside was all about refinining in less area in the tail, narrowing the tips of the swallow, creating more curve and narrowing the nose. This Seaside design covered all the elements for ripping while staying cruisey and fun.
The Seaside has been designed purely as a Quad fin set up & was designed so that the concaves and bottom contours match the Quad set up perfectly so that it all works together.
The Seaside is best surfed at beach breaks and little point breaks, this limited edition version for 2022 is built using Firewires Volcanic Tech made from Basalt Fibers Extruded from Volcanic Rocks that are crushed, melted and extruded into woven fibers that make up the cloth. The manufacture of basalt fiber requires the melting of the crushed and washed basalt rock at about 1,500 °C (2,730 °F). The molten rock is then extruded through small nozzles to produce continuous filaments of basalt fiber. Those filaments are then chopped into long stem fibers and woven into lamination cloth fiber. The cloth has similar characteristics to carbon as it relates to strength and weight however because the fibers are derived from Organic Raw materials, when combined with Bio Resins it serves as better degradable ECO alternative than using traditional carbon fiber cloth.
Basalt fiber is a relative newcomer to fiber reinforced polymers (FRPs) and structural composites. It has a similar chemical composition as glass fiber but has better strength characteristics, and unlike most glass fibers is highly resistant to alkaline, acidic and salt attack making it a good candidate for surfboard manufacturing.
Compared to carbon and aramid fiber, it has the features of wider application temperature range -452° F to 1,200° F (-269° C to +650° C), higher oxidation resistance, higher radiation resistance, higher compression strength, and higher shear strength.
The cloth can withstand high temperatures unlike carbon fiber and as a result is heavily used the Aerospace industry in the creation of rockets and and jet engines. The elasticity characteristics of this fiber is higher than that of traditional Carbon fiber allowing the board to have more flex for a natural feel under foot.
