HONOLULU SURF FIELD GUIDE
5'8" Seaside Helium — Rob Machado’s precision quad tuned for Honolulu’s beach breaks
A focused look at Rob Machado’s Seaside built in lightweight Helium—what the shape does, why the material matters, and where it performs best.
5'8" Seaside Helium — Rob Machado’s precision quad tuned for Honolulu’s beach breaks.
Experience the thrill of surfing with Rob Machado’s Seaside: a 5'8" quad setup refined for higher performance and tighter turns while retaining a fun, cruisey feel. The Seaside’s narrowed tips, reduced tail area and redesigned concaves drive more precise carving, and its Helium construction makes the board light, responsive and well suited to beach breaks and smaller waves.
Highlights
Outing Highlights
A True Quad — Redesigned Concaves
Machado made the Seaside a quad-only shape and rebuilt the concave and bottom contours around that choice, producing a board intended to exploit the unique dynamics of a four-fin setup.
Refined for Tighter Turns and Carving
Compared to the Go Fish, the Seaside reduces area in the tail, narrows the swallow tips and increases curve through the outline to favor more aggressive carves and tighter turning arcs while keeping an engaging, lively ride.
Helium: Light, Flexy, Durable
Built in Helium to suit beach breaks and smaller, weaker waves, the construction delivers a very light, responsive and flexy feel with durability that matches the Seaside’s intended everyday use.
What the day feels like
What Riding the Seaside Feels Like
Riding the Seaside is the product of evolving a looser, skatey template into something more performance‑oriented: expect a board that still feels lively and fun but that is tuned to bite into carves and hold tighter lines through turns. The quad setup and reshaped contours emphasize acceleration and responsiveness, particularly in smaller, punchy beach-break conditions.
Suitability
Who it's for
Who the Seaside suits — and why.
Practical planner
Details to review before reserving
The Seaside is built in Helium—very light, responsive, flexy with a softer feel and durable—optimized for smaller, weaker waves and beach breaks.
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Frequently asked questions
Planning Your Outing
When is the Seaside experience available?
Every day, from 10am to 6pm.
Why is the shape called 'Seaside'?
Machado named the board after his home break, Seaside—it's the perfect little stick for surfing that spot.
Why is the Seaside built in Helium?
Helium was chosen because it’s very light, responsive, flexy with a softer feel and durable—qualities suited to beach breaks and smaller waves.
Why is the Seaside a quad-only board?
Machado intentionally made the Seaside strictly a quad so he could redesign the concaves and bottom contours around that specific four‑fin setup.
What wave types suit the Seaside?
The Seaside is ideal for beach breaks and smaller waves where its lightweight Helium build and refined outline can express tight turns and carving.