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- Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:29 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: T-Belly Generation 2
- Replies: 128
- Views: 60789
Re: T-Belly Generation 2
check this out if you dare. design theory made fact through one guy as close to the little yellow haired surf idol, GG. its why my boards are under 21" wide, more interesting things too.http://surfmatters.blogspot.com/2014/05/30-years-of-testing-and-tinkering-5-law_26.html So are you saying yo...
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:17 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: T-Belly Generation 2
- Replies: 128
- Views: 60789
Re: T-Belly Generation 2
My board is made from 2lb EPS. I think that EPS is 15-20% more bouyant. I guess the increased bouancy with less volume and lightness makes it feel lively. Ok that's a good starting point, in poor waves literage/flotation does not bother me so much, but in good waves I despise a board with to much f...
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:08 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Paipo Board Blank Material
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1952
Re: Paipo Board Blank Material
There is a guy over in the pacifica area with a cad blank shaping machine (cut most blanks for there and the santa cruz area), if you can design you board in CAD, he will cut it out for you.
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:58 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New EPS Board
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6602
Re: New EPS Board
Dimensions are in the first post 52 x 21 x 2 3/8bgreen wrote:My boards are typically 3 x 6 oz.
- Sun Jun 01, 2014 6:54 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: bellyboard fins
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2426
Re: bellyboard fins
One simple thing you can do is try prone riding that board with just the front fins, and then just the back fins in. Will give your brain food for though.
- Wed May 28, 2014 12:37 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: T-Belly Generation 2
- Replies: 128
- Views: 60789
Re: T-Belly Generation 2
so with EPS having more float that poly (I realize both can have different density's).
If you had a tipical 30L poly board and a tactical EPS 30L board how much more float roughly would the EPS board have 10%?
If you had a tipical 30L poly board and a tactical EPS 30L board how much more float roughly would the EPS board have 10%?
- Mon May 26, 2014 9:54 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: My new SDF surfboard Paipo
- Replies: 67
- Views: 37917
Re: My new SDF surfboard Paipo
Just an update to say the board is now over a year old, poor think is hammered but still rides great. love it in 1ft welsh waves and double over head aboard. It has so far been beyond my own surfing capability's to find a line to draw that this board will not handle without problems. Never looses a ...
- Mon May 26, 2014 9:32 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: T-Belly Generation 2
- Replies: 128
- Views: 60789
Re: T-Belly Generation 2
Austin are on the right track going 43. 22.5, but they need to get volume back int he middle of the board and go nearly 3" to get back to 28ish litres. for the rider of weight and height those dimensions would suit.
- Mon May 26, 2014 8:54 am
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Cool downs and leg cramps
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4558
Re: Cool downs and leg cramps
Never done much stretching in the last 20 years, did a bit of yoga in the surf camp at G-land, mainly childs pose to stretch out my upper arms. most places i surf are a little walk from the parking to the surf so that my warm up, sometimes i jog it
- Sat May 17, 2014 1:30 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: uss starship enterprise
- Replies: 44
- Views: 15227
Re: uss starship enterprise
interesting stuff, how's it coming along?
- Sun May 11, 2014 1:07 pm
- Forum: Swim Fins, Skegs & Other Paipo Gear
- Topic: DaFins and Vipers V5 - Some Observations
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2293
Re: DaFins and Vipers V5 - Some Observations
The Dafins are the only fins I have experienced with such a rigid blade, i had the rounded tip kicks and never liked them,then they perished and snapped across the heal straps in less that 10 surfs!!! :o I have had the vipers in softer orange dot which i liked but how now also broken from reef walki...
- Sun May 11, 2014 12:53 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: What do you think about these fins?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1275
Re: What do you think about these fins?
its all been done before, on the bottom of stand up boards,on the bottoms and rails of bodyboards, never seems to stick as a functional design
- Sat May 10, 2014 5:53 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: Help me shape this board
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2371
Re: Help me shape this board
alaia hull with wegner surfie plan shape!
- Sat May 10, 2014 4:42 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Fun on a Monday...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4311
Re: Fun on a Monday...
This was the last wave of my california winter, not a bad way to end.
- Sat May 10, 2014 4:32 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Fun on a Monday...
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4311
Re: Fun on a Monday...
Sorry late to the party!
Thanks for the kind words.
I got to cross something off the bucket list that day, Jeff is a fantastic host.
And as he said we truly found there are more than one way to build and ride a paipo!
Great pics!!!
Thanks for the kind words.
I got to cross something off the bucket list that day, Jeff is a fantastic host.
And as he said we truly found there are more than one way to build and ride a paipo!
Great pics!!!
- Sat May 10, 2014 4:25 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Italian paipo lover
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7833
Re: Italian paipo lover
Awesome!
Great board,great board cover and great sewing machine!
Hello from wales!
How thick is your board ,any concave etc?
Great board,great board cover and great sewing machine!
Hello from wales!
How thick is your board ,any concave etc?
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:50 pm
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: New EPS Board
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6602
Re: New EPS Board
The lay up is 3 layers of 4 ounce top and bottom with Entropy Bio epoxy resin. It doesn't really have any flex at all. But it feels different than my Polyurethane board with a stringer. It seems to have more energy and catch waves easier even though it is narrower and thinner than my PU board. my f...
- Mon Dec 02, 2013 12:42 pm
- Forum: Your Wave
- Topic: Board Build Pictures
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2388
Re: Board Build Pictures
I got to the beach too late on Friday. The surf crapped out by the time I got there. I got some good surf today though. I made a lot mistakes on the board. The rails are too thick and the tuck is too big etc. But it goes pretty good. Let us know, when you have some time. so the rails being to thick...
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 12:52 am
- Forum: Paipo Board Design & Building
- Topic: UK bonzer paipo I spotted
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1642
Re: UK bonzer paipo I spotted
very straight template , must be fast!
- Sat Nov 30, 2013 10:54 am
- Forum: Swim Fins, Skegs & Other Paipo Gear
- Topic: swim fins - DaFin
- Replies: 39
- Views: 23771
Re: swim fins - DaFin
Any longevity reviews on the dafins. When i got mine (mail order) I was very unhappy with the width of the heal strap, I hardly used the fin maybe 10 times (left them at a friend in california) upon return the next year I was surfing up in santa cruz and camping at a site south of town, so I had an ...