The thing with building boards for big waves is experience and knowledge.

 Of having the first hand experience of what's needed to get into the wave in the first place, to make it down the face intact, and cover enough ground across large open faces before the lip karate chops you in half.

 With a lifetime dedicated to pursuing the most challenging waves he could find, there's very few shapers who have Jim's first hand experience of surfing such a vast variety of large challenging waves.

 And the knowledge to be able to build boards for these types of waves.

 If you're needing a board for larger days, pretty hard to go past one of these.

 Ride them from 6'10 - 9'0