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by bgreen
Sat Nov 13, 2021 3:57 pm
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: Hand Plane Peahi
Replies: 4
Views: 11342

Re: Hand Plane Peahi

From the look of it, I wondered if it was motorised but apparently not: https://www.taylorsmistakehandski.com/p ... e-handski/

A beast of a handplane, crossing barriers with the label handski.
by bgreen
Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:44 am
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: Tom Morey sign on the Big Island
Replies: 0
Views: 29608

Tom Morey sign on the Big Island

I read a sign had been installed on the BIg Island commemorating Tom Morey and the boogie board, one side, on the other information about paipo boards. This link depicts the sign at Honis Beach Park: https://kauainownews.com/2021/11/06/wave-riders-pay-tribute-to-tom-morey-creator-of-the-modern-day-b...
by bgreen
Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:38 am
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: Hand Plane Peahi
Replies: 4
Views: 11342

Re: Hand Plane Peahi

Very impressive. Just catching those waves is an achievement, let alone riding them.
by bgreen
Wed Oct 20, 2021 3:59 am
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: A Ripple in the Force
Replies: 21
Views: 70327

Re: A Ripple in the Force

Thanks Uncle G.

Anyone have access to Bazooka, written by Tom Morey, which appeared in the first issue of The Surfers Journal?
by bgreen
Sun Oct 17, 2021 8:54 pm
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: A Ripple in the Force
Replies: 21
Views: 70327

Re: A Ripple in the Force

Thanks Nels. I liked his boogieboard style . I also thought this quote was pretty good: “Hey! A lot of my multimillionaire friends . . . they’re gone,” Mr. Morey said in 2007. “Nobody’s trying to kidnap my kids, because they don’t have any money! I’m not running from the IRS. I don’t have any kind o...
by bgreen
Sat Oct 16, 2021 9:20 pm
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: Song with a paipo reference
Replies: 1
Views: 7756

Re: Song with a paipo reference

New version & location

https://youtu.be/jTSRTZoKm98
by bgreen
Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:42 am
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: A Ripple in the Force
Replies: 21
Views: 70327

Re: A Ripple in the Force

Uncle G,

I just watched a video with him and his wife, they both seemed pretty cool people.

Do you know anything his flippers?

Thanks

Bob
by bgreen
Fri Oct 15, 2021 8:12 pm
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: A Ripple in the Force
Replies: 21
Views: 70327

Re: A Ripple in the Force

I never really rode one but from what I've read an innovative guy. Some interesting stuff here: https://www.ocregister.com/2021/10/15/tom-morey-inventor-of-the-boogie-board-dies-at-age-86/ Anyone know about Morey's flippers? He talks about them in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWZ2...
by bgreen
Wed Oct 13, 2021 9:47 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Mini Paipos
Replies: 21
Views: 88826

Re: Mini Paipos

It will be interesting to hear what difference the bottoms make on this style of board, especially given your riding position isn't on the board as such.
by bgreen
Tue Oct 12, 2021 5:27 pm
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: Song with a paipo reference
Replies: 1
Views: 7756

Song with a paipo reference

It's not often you come across a song that references paipo boards. The first part of this video is from the original writer of the song who asks people to come up with a verse. At around 0.46 you start to see & hear Stig Waidelich, son of John Waidelich one of the originators of the Paipo Nui s...
by bgreen
Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:48 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Paulownia paipo
Replies: 11
Views: 19902

Re: Paulownia paipo

Are you using the fibreglass board much. Once you have a few boards, it is hard to regularly use them all. It is fun, pulling out a board that you haven't surfed for a while.
by bgreen
Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:46 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: First Build
Replies: 12
Views: 21371

Re: First Build

Send a ride report, once you've surfed it a few times.
by bgreen
Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:42 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: First Build
Replies: 12
Views: 21371

Re: First Build

I thought about this some more - my fibreglass boards are some where like 6KG. You might even get away with 1/2" . What were you going to seal it with - if it was oil you could always test and refine. If varnished, you pretty much got what you have.
by bgreen
Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:38 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: First Build
Replies: 12
Views: 21371

Re: First Build

8kg would be too heavy. Do the waves have power? Given you are doing a standing start, you just want something that will get picked up. Have you seen UK bellyboards?
by bgreen
Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:34 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Latest Paipo
Replies: 9
Views: 13468

Re: Latest Paipo

How does it ride compared to your earlier boards?
by bgreen
Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:33 am
Forum: Your Wave
Topic: Prone Foil
Replies: 4
Views: 10159

Re: Prone Foil

Surfoils has been riding them for years - I tried an early prototype in junk surf but they have advanced since then.
by bgreen
Sat Aug 28, 2021 12:39 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Velo Flex spoon Build
Replies: 6
Views: 20860

Re: Velo Flex spoon Build

They don't have a lot of float, but more than if just bodysurfing.

There was a Swaylocks thread on different construction methods.

A Peter Ware model
PeterWare.jpg
Is it going to be finned?
by bgreen
Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:46 am
Forum: Paipo Web Pages
Topic: Paipo Slippah
Replies: 6
Views: 18180

Re: Paipo Slippah

So if I put Geoffrey's & Nels insights together, the leather comes from drunken masochistic cattle.
by bgreen
Fri Aug 20, 2021 4:41 pm
Forum: Paipo Web Pages
Topic: Paipo Slippah
Replies: 6
Views: 18180

Re: Paipo Slippah

It's kinda strange that they don't even try to include a photo of a paipo board in the marketing. I can see a link to riding a paipo here: "It’s an effortless feeling. Like you’re floating, mindless, free." but the rest looks like it comes from the Surfers Journal. I'm not sure what "...
by bgreen
Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:17 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Mini Paipos
Replies: 21
Views: 88826

Re: Mini Paipos

Gday M,

I had a fun bank to myself up the sunny coast this morning. I used to go to the spit a bit about 10-12 years but crowds just took the fun out of it.

I'll look at instagram when i get home in a day or so. I need to find my password, its not something iI ook at much.