Forecasts may be suggesting this week will be the coldest on record for a while but when there’s a wave you just have to go. With sunshine and fun waist high surf it’d be rude not to get out there and make the most of it. Here we’re putting Starboard’s Hyper Nut 7’8″ 2018 sled through its paces, the actual review write up to be published in our second issue of this year (look out for the test of its bigger 9′ sibling coming in the first mag of 2018) – stay tuned for that. In the meantime keep warm, and remember spring’s just around the corner…