Firewire Surfboard Seaside (Helium)

Overview

Fish / Hybrid Range – Firewire Seaside Helium Model (Rob Machado Shape)

The Seaside by Firewire Surfboards is the high-performance evolution of the famous Go Fish blueprint, masterfully redesigned by freesurf icon Rob Machado. While the original Go Fish focuses on a skatey, loose, and cruisey glide, the Seaside injects a radical dose of modern shortboard performance into the fish category. By refining the foil, narrowing the nose template, and introducing more continuous curve into the outline, this model is built explicitly for ripping—enabling tighter turns, explosive vertical carves, and lightning-fast reactivity.

This shape is built strictly as a quad-fin setup. Rather than creating a compromised multi-fin option, Machado re-engineered his entire signature concave network from the ground up, specifically tailoring the bottom contours around a quad configuration so that the hull and fins work in absolute harmony. Named after his home spot, the Seaside is the definitive "perfect little stick" for maximizing performance in everyday conditions.

This model is best suited for intermediate to advanced surfers looking for a blazing-fast alternative shortboard that carries the paddle power of a fish but turns like a performance blade. Built in Firewire's premium Helium technology, the board is incredibly light, ultra-durable, and highly responsive with a unique, softer flex pattern. It stands as the ultimate high-performance weapon to tear apart beach breaks, soft point breaks, and weaker, smaller waves.

Model Outline

Refined performance fish outline featuring a narrower nose silhouette and increased curve throughout the rails compared to traditional retro fish models. The template pulls into a highly technical, narrowed-tip swallow tail, a strategic configuration engineered to drastically reduce surface area in the tail block, allowing the rider to break the line, pivot sharply, and hold a solid edge at high speeds.

Bottom Contours

Quad-exclusive performance concave configuration — The hull features a completely redesigned, intricate concave setup explicitly engineered to flow seamlessly with the quad-fin placement. This specialized contour traps and channels water rapidly toward the tail to create immediate lift, minimize drag, and generate unmatched down-the-line velocity, working alongside the lively spring-back memory of the Helium rails to ensure ultra-precise control and fluid, high-speed rail-to-rail transitions.