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YES 420 17/18

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Profile Twin Rocker-Camber-Rocker
Style Powder
Shape Directional
Flex Medium/Stiff
Base Type Sintered

Quick overview

This board is all about surface area displacement to create float and stability in a package that has much less swing-weight due to its dramatically shortened length. It’s wide and weird. And while it’s becoming less weird with all the copycats out there, nothing will put a smile on your face like a 420.

Details

PowRock
A Flat base with a 6mm rocker in the nose and a 2mm rocker in the tail. This gives the board added float, making it a one of the best boards to ride on a powder day!

Radial Tapered
Inspired by Steve Lis, and 420 the revolution that occurred when kneeboards influenced surfboard design. Powder is all about speed and flotation. Displacement of a board’s volume is affected by more than just length. With the 420 for example, we’re able to get the stability and float normally associated with much longer boards by punching out the waist width and drastically chopping the length. The 148 for example has the same circumference and base surface as a traditional 160, but it’s mass is located much closer to your feet resulting in more maneuverability and far less swing weight. A slight taper (12mm) helps keep the nose up without loosing the tail’s ability to hold in hard-pack. Stance is only slightly set back from center of effective edge because the difference in nose and tail shovel keeps you from going over the nose.

Weightless Core
Designed specifically for the 420 and 20/20. The weightless core strikes a critical balance between lightweight and strength. Using a lower density species of Poplar in areas that are not as structural and Paulownia in the areas that are, we’re able to shave precious weight off our beloved 420 and now the 20/20. This helps a board not only float, but “feel” floaty.

Triax
A multi-layered tri-axis fiberglass meshed with carbon fiber power bands. Carbon power bands dampen vibrations and keep board stable at speed.

Sintered Spec Base
This is the term Yes uses and is the grey zone many companies play in. They call it Sintered Spec because it’s hardness and chemical properties are very close to true sintered and it’s on-snow performance is also very close to true sintered - but it’s formed using the extrusion process. How? – Well the raw material is actually pre- consumer recycled (meaning it never left the factory) sintered base material. So while the heating and extrusion process has softened it slightly, it’s still much harder than true Extruded.

ModelYES 420 2017-2018
Size145148152
Tip Length (cm) 36.5 36.5 38
Tail Length (cm) 24 24 24.5
Effective Edge (cm) 102 105.1 107.5
Contact length (cm) 84.5 87.5 89.5
Waist Width (cm) 26 28.6 28.6
Tip Width (cm) 30.94 33.78 33.95
Tail Width (cm) 29.36 32.18 32.12
Rocker / Camber (cm) 0 0 0
Sidecut  5.9 5.944 6.1
Ref Point (cm) 49.53 57.15 - 22.5 59.69 - 23.5
Setback 1.5 1.5 1.5
Min Stance Width (cm) 45.5 - 17.9 49.3 - 19.4 53.2 - 20.9
Max Stance Width (cm) 53.5 - 21.1 57.3 - 22.6 61.2 - 24.1