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by krusher74
Tue Oct 16, 2018 5:32 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Everybody wants to
Replies: 42
Views: 29135

Re: Everybody wants to

They are the best selling board in the world! "the magic" of them is that the are the cheapest board you can buy coming straight out of china. They unfortunately fill the needs of the average cheap kook starting out in the sport. They are the plastic bag/single use water bottle of the surf...
by krusher74
Mon Oct 15, 2018 2:58 am
Forum: For Sale, Wanted or Trade
Topic: 3 paipos for sale.
Replies: 5
Views: 167735

Re: 3 paipos for sale.

orange and blue boards sold.
by krusher74
Sun Oct 14, 2018 2:07 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Wood Paipo
Replies: 16
Views: 16022

Re: Wood Paipo

Saw this on his facebook page.

Will be interesting to see how you find it with that nose bowl in weaker waves.
by krusher74
Thu Oct 11, 2018 3:04 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Can't help myself
Replies: 62
Views: 39527

Re: Can't help myself

Lots of good design-related issues being brought up in this thread. Here’s my $0.02: Every good, i.e. “workable” design is an integration of all its functional elements, e.g. outline, bottom contours, rocker, fin placement, finless, etc. It’s very “Gestalt-ish”, where the whole is greater than the ...
by krusher74
Thu Oct 11, 2018 2:42 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Everybody wants to
Replies: 42
Views: 29135

Re: Everybody wants to

These actually are EPS, not PE like bodyboards. I didn't think about using deck material; I cut bottom skin. The deck material of this board is a bit beat anyway...board was well-abused. More photos later. I was saying the deck is PE. not the core The bottom skin is hdpe plastic i would not use tha...
by krusher74
Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:28 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Everybody wants to
Replies: 42
Views: 29135

Re: Everybody wants to

Never even seen or felt one in person so no idea of top skin texture? but I've cleaned some pretty nasty wax off boards just by leaving them deck up in the sun for an hour or so and then shaving w/ putty knife. Obvious I know. What's up with this beast? Toe in on fins will create wee bit of drag bu...
by krusher74
Tue Oct 09, 2018 12:05 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Can't help myself
Replies: 62
Views: 39527

Re: Can't help myself

To be my usual broken record I ride finless, so when I hear "I didn't have a big enough fin" I feel that more than having a fin too small its more, your maybe not engaging the fin you have, from either it being on the wrong place on the board or you not positioned on the board to engage t...
by krusher74
Tue Oct 09, 2018 4:37 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Can't help myself
Replies: 62
Views: 39527

Re: Can't help myself

If your talking about the hull I didn't keep it long enough to really get a feel for it. I got one wave at Steamer lane on it and I felt out of control going up and down the face which I thought was because I didn't have a big enough fin. I was running a Greenough 7" 4A was going to get a 8 or...
by krusher74
Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:04 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Can't help myself
Replies: 62
Views: 39527

Re: Can't help myself

Pes78 wrote:. Just need advice on what to do.

Its a good looking board, must fly with that wide tail.


Maybe if you give us a list of what it does not do well we could throw in some ideas of what we would do to that design to make it do those things better.
by krusher74
Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:40 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Need Advice on Build
Replies: 32
Views: 11157

Re: Need Advice on Build

When performing a take off, ensuring your kicking in the water and not surface kick. You'll need the thrust to push forward, position your body positions left or right as you slide your board under you, you will quickly gain speed. Honestly, I'm 238lbs and I float on all of my wood boards. I've got ...
by krusher74
Wed Oct 03, 2018 5:37 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Need Advice on Build
Replies: 32
Views: 11157

Re: Need Advice on Build

I'll put forward the view that a wood board can be put on the rail - Sean Ross at Pipeline is a prime example. Its more a question of wave rather than board volume. I think the issue is that wood boards are often ridden in mushy/junk waves. The recent video showed guys having fun in junk waves, but...
by krusher74
Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:17 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Need Advice on Build
Replies: 32
Views: 11157

Re: Need Advice on Build

You should really be fine on a 42.5 (wide point forward bodyboard) I'm your height and weight and surf in the same 1ft mush on one fine here in the wales. If you are sliding out your staying to central to the board and not getting over on the rail/back corner. Also check you board has not bent in th...
by krusher74
Wed Sep 12, 2018 7:03 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: TP Displacement Hull Board
Replies: 14
Views: 5130

Re: TP Displacement Hull Board

"Plowing" is almost always a nose rocker problem. Entry rocker has to be smooth, continuous (parabolic) curve, with no abrupt changes. Smooth transitions can be can be hard to achieve in a shape with such short length. "Belly" or convex rail-to-rail curve doesn't cause plowing. ...
by krusher74
Mon Sep 10, 2018 11:23 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: TP Displacement Hull Board
Replies: 14
Views: 5130

Re: TP Displacement Hull Board

That is beautiful! In my stand-up experience, many hulls are built too "deep" and tend to bog unless there's tons of power in the wave. Yours appears to be subtle enough to just do the job which is perfect I think. In all shapes, but maybe even more so when dealing w/ convex bottom contou...
by krusher74
Wed Sep 05, 2018 4:51 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: TP Displacement Hull Board
Replies: 14
Views: 5130

Re: TP Displacement Hull Board

I have belly/displacement in the front 1/3 of my boards. I find it nice to paddle into waves on as it work front 0mph, where as a planing hull your basically dragging through the water till 4/5mph when it starts to plane. I however prefer most of the board to be a planing hull as i don't like the wa...
by krusher74
Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:02 am
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: The Misfit
Replies: 8
Views: 2910

Re: The Misfit

Now We can see the bottom with the fins there is a lot going on on that hull!!

talk us through that central from planing section and the big double concave, what are you hoping to get from them?
by krusher74
Sun Sep 02, 2018 2:25 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: Finless observations
Replies: 8
Views: 2774

Re: Finless observations

Great to see you have fun at J-bay. Thinking about what you have said I think the big difference with finned and finless is finless its easier to move on the board and find the place where your in harmony with the rail so the board feels good. Finned is very complicated, you throw into the mix , fin...
by krusher74
Sun Sep 02, 2018 2:14 pm
Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
Topic: The Misfit
Replies: 8
Views: 2910

Re: The Misfit

Its great to see your designs, your one of the few people i see trying things that don't look like everybody elses. 8-)