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Re: Mexico
I love Mexico and have traveled extensively in Baja and the Pacific coast mainland. Up until a few years ago,we used to spend a couple weeks in Baja every three or four months but now that meth and the "breaking bad" antics that come with it have become a part of the peninsula I no longer ...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 10:26 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Greetings from Portugal
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4966
Re: Greetings from Portugal
Aloha!
- Wed Aug 21, 2019 10:16 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: PhillyViking & Atlantasurfer have been making some boards...
- Replies: 3
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- Fri Jul 05, 2019 8:37 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Latest board from Chris Garrett
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4368
Re: Latest board from Chris Garrett
That looks like some fun.
- Thu Jun 27, 2019 8:41 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: The Immigrint board
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15217
- Mon May 20, 2019 11:17 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Greetings from the Island thats not an Island.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16548
Re: Greetings from the Island thats not an Island.
Uncle G how does the board go compared to the concave bottom.
Tough to describe.
Do you have any experience with displacement hull surfboards? Kind of like that, but finless.
It sticks to the wave, in a good way.
- Sat May 18, 2019 11:49 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Greetings from the Island thats not an Island.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16548
Re: Greetings from the Island thats not an Island.
Thanks. That was the second one I made; it has deep concave down the length of the bottom. It still gets plenty of use, especially on the really small days. Here's the most recent of the alaia style boards I've done. http://orig02.deviantart.net/e2f9/f/2015/342/c/2/img_0962__360x640__by_kipapa-d9jgv...
- Tue Apr 30, 2019 10:35 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: River surfing:Setting the record straight.
- Replies: 17
- Views: 18078
Re: River surfing:Setting the record straight.
Besides John Clark I would suggest also Tom (Pohaku) Stone & Malcolm Gault-Williams as sources. As far as contacting the Bishop about surf info, good luck with that. Working at SHACC for years I have reached out to them more than once to no avail. In fact just last week one of our SHACC members ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2019 1:19 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: A new innovating construction approach...
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5189
Re: A new innovating construction approach...
Where can you buy and at what price Unobtanium skins? in Europe? mechanical properties and how to use it? I do not find anything about that, I know that Poc has used it for a helmet to ride a bike, but nothing else, it seems a kind of plastic In the USA April 1 is a day for jokes. Abril Tonto mas o...
- Thu Mar 28, 2019 10:38 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: aluminium sheet+ eps/xps board
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4774
Re: aluminium sheet+ eps/xps board
I've been on a similar quest for the perfect flex for a few years now and most of my experiments ended up either too heavy or too stiff for my taste as well. Always end up back at solid wood (Paulownia) boards shaped just thin enough but no more....coincidentally I just placed an order for more Paul...
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 11:29 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Newport Paipo
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3846
Re: Newport Paipo
The rope handles on kneeboards were pretty common back in the 70's and that fin looks like maybe a Brewer wide base or Hynson DolFin, both thick based fins very popular then as well..
https://www.swaylocks.com/forums/three-fins-70s
https://www.swaylocks.com/forums/three-fins-70s
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 9:37 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: 4ft Freshie
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4885
Re: 4ft Freshie
FUN FUN FUN
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 2:44 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: paipo choppy big waves, make it
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3658
Re: Fresh One
Yes.zensuni wrote:I like the look of this board, is it finless ?
Fresh One
I picked up this little nugget a couple weeks ago when we hosted the Vintage Surf Collector Club at SHACC for their annual gathering. Shaped by Billy Butler, a fairly well known local builder of long distance/racing paddle boards. At 21"X 41" it's probably too small for me but I liked the ...
- Tue Dec 11, 2018 2:17 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: paulownia + polyester+ fiberglass: rocker and flex
- Replies: 48
- Views: 15851
Re: paulownia + polyester+ fiberglass: rocker and flex
A surfmat might be fun in these conditions, but if you don't like side slipping, forget it In my experience, 1-2 foot mushy wind waves to 6+ ft steep but not barrels, to 4-5 foot tubes, with practice and proper inflation for the waves, side slipping is almost completely optional on a modern surfmat...
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:20 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New (to me) stuff on Tom Wegener's site
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6482
Re: New (to me) stuff on Tom Wegener's site
A long conversation with Tom at a Sacred Craft event several years ago is what led to my getting hooked on the Alaia type boards.
If you ride prone, you sould have at least one.
If you ride prone, you sould have at least one.
- Wed Nov 07, 2018 10:52 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Greetings from the Island thats not an Island.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 16548
Re: Greetings from the Island thats not an Island.
"it was like riding a longboard boogie board " I like this comparison. The great feeling of trimming down the line, drawing a clean line, but prone. But yet,6', isn't it a bit too long ? This is the one I'm on in the avatar. It's 5'5" X 15.5" and I am planning on building a 6 fo...
- Wed Oct 17, 2018 10:22 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Everybody wants to
- Replies: 42
- Views: 33723
Re: Everybody wants to
No.nomastomas wrote:Just curious Uncle G...do you feel the same way about the the foam paipo a.k.a. Morey Boogie Board?
Only those shitty ones made from really cheap EPS like the ones Krusher mentioned.
FWIW I love Tom Morey and his creations..
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:52 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Everybody wants to
- Replies: 42
- Views: 33723
Re: Everybody wants to
In 2016 alone, Costco sold 100,000 of those abominations.