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Very cool about the quad being such a success! Do you use pretty much "standard" quad alignments and spacing? Or Soulglider "secret sauce"?

soulglider wrote:The andrieni reference is dead on.

I can see why you'd love the way it rides!

Thanks SG, reminds me of an extreme looking Andreini I saw at Mollusk in San Francisco. From what I know, the deepest part of the hull is sort of the sweet spot for driving those long long accelerating turns. Do you shift it back to move the sweet spot more under your hips? Or leave it more forward ...

Looking good! Would love to test that one, too bad we live on opposite sides of the world.

Did you round off the very thin edge of the rails or square them sort of alaia like w/ and edge top and bottom?

Just went back and re read that Wegener interview. Really fine! Thank you again for doing that Bob!

Somehow, I might hesitate to drop in on an outrigger!!!

Great prices! How soft is the soft? Like a conventional bodyboard w/ carbon rods inside?

I have ridden bodyboard w/ leg leash attached to nose plug. Just used leash from my footie board, no issues as it seemed long enough to stay out of my way.

Surprising to me it would need/be able to use that large of a fin. I would be very tempted to try it w/ a much smaller version, sort of proportionate. Esp since having legs/flippers if needed to recover tail slide if it starts to pop out and slide. If it would still hold you would get even more spee...

Erm...just leave the site, clear all cookies and then go back. Have not tried that...yet...but it should work Bwa-ha-ha

Rod for Supremeo Presidenté for life!!!

Quick and dirty for experimental boards-paraffin driven in w/ heat gun or stolen wife's hair dryer. Be sure to get plenty into the edges/end grain parts.

Totally bitchen! Loved the shot of your tandem ride w/ the two grins at once.

Wish I had someone to push me into waves now and then

Definitely Rod for this site and Bob Green for the encyclopedia of info and history, and all those folks he has interviewed. Dale Solomonson got me lying down and interested in plywood and Nels gave me some serious bump in the paipo direction both personally and with his site vagabondsurfer.com and ...

it was only 3/8" thick but I glassed the bottom with 4oz S glass with epoxi My experience w/ broken surfboards is that they generally buckle on the deck. Laminated fiber glass is weakest under compression, the "inside angle" of a bend. So I think maybe stronger to glass the deck if o...

Mike, great photo! Esp with the sepia tint, except for the wetsuit could be any time from somewhere in the future to waaaaaay back in the past.

It doesn't get any better than that!

Whole big swaths of Cali north of SF Bay area, lots of semi and fully secret points that can really fire on the right swell, with plenty white sharks shopping for sleek, black, torpedo shapes to bite on. I lived in Sebastopol for over 10 years. Lots I loved and things I really didn't. Too cold in th...

Soulglider, try decaff

Booger = nose candy

bodyboard = what the ambulance guys strap you to after you do a head plant in booming shore break, whatever you are riding

Oh, wait... that's a body board, two words

I don't think you need to use words like "bullshit" in this forum. This is just a friendly discussion. "Well, he's just an excitable boy" "Excitable Boy" (Warren Zevon & LeRoy P. Marinell) Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best Excitable boy, they all said...