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I was curious too as your published weight was very heavy IMHO. Even for Appletree
My Amos Sultan 65L is 9.7 lbs. If you upsize based on percentage, an 80L would be around 12 lbs.
Add the difference in weight of foam and you get near 14 lbs.
I don’t know what the appletree is supposed to weigh, other than what Mackkite published, but considering the Appletree is supposed to be heavier carboned than my Amos, I could see it getting to 15 plus lbs pretty easily.
Not that its what you want to hear… but it may be nature of the beast.
I think this is kind of a weird board - and I can see why it might end up heavy. You can’t compare it to something like the emissary. It’s not a DW board (or DW style) which I feel like lets manufacturers get away with lighter layups. - and everyone is glassing the pointy boards lighter cause they’re generally not being boosted to the moon.
The 80 is a weird size even. The smaller of the v3 are “sinker boosting” boards - small enough that heavy glass isn’t as much of a penalty and less swing weight for the lbs that are there aren’t as noticeable and they’re definitely being jumped. Bigger than 80…nobody’s jumping that so yeah, they probably pull back on the lamination. But 80 is the worst of both worlds - some fatty is gonna jump the thing so glass the piss out of it and there so much there that the heavy glass job adds up.
And no-delam-durability is Appletrees whole schtick so I understand how they could make the mistake. I mean compared to other production boards having something heavy - maybe “under sanded” doesnt sound tragic - I’ve looked under the deck pads of some “carbon” naish boards and 100% of the carbon is sanded through.
“some fatty is gonna jump the thing” ha ha ha. Guilty as charged.
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Appletree is heavy because they don’t take in water when you ding it. It’s also stiffer than other brands. For tow and prone boards under 40L where 300g it doesn’t matter, apple tree is better because you don’t worry about dings. But if you go too big like my 42L 6’2 mid length it’s only 1kg less than my 90L 6’3 sunova. Its way too heavy…
Bummer, that is a bit heavy for 70L. I have a V3 in 50L and it’s pretty light. Closer in volume, I have a 62L Jazz that I’ve loved but planning on selling soon since I’m running smaller boards. I just weighed it out of curiosity. It’s 11lbs 8 oz, which isn’t superlight, but definitely MUCH lighter than your board.