MyPaipoBoards Forums

dammit hit the wrong key and lost the post...if anything truly gets lost in the internet...oh well... While I check in here a lot, I never look at surfermag...so that was interesting. Thanks Bob. It's expensive to live in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, San Luis too. And L.A., Orange, and San Di...

Alas. Profit indeed. So not only wasn't it a good value, it's kind of a hose job on many levels. Over the years I've done the rudimentary math on board building for personal and limited sale production, and I figured maybe with "volume" or a loss-leader period (and in something like that I...

Ah...do we actually know those boards are offshore jobs? I can't even find the effing video some of you guys are talking about, much less specifically detailed manufacturing info. But I long ago lost interest in trying to unravel mysto underground coolness when I tried asking who was behind the Orbi...

Huh...didn't see a video, Bob. But I miss a lot of stuff right in front of my eyes. I actually think these boards are probably a value. Not to mention there probably isn't a lot of profit in paipos. I believe it's a regular EPS shape with a full-on volan glass job, a finished board that gets "w...

Ran across this tonight after seeing some of the stand-up boards at my local shop. Construction is interesting... "Our custom made Clyde Beatty Jr. soft-top surfboards start with a hand shaped EPS blank, are then glassed with Volan fiberglass and the highest quality epoxy resin. We then cut the...

I'd love to have made it, but apparently a lot of us Know How It Goes. Had nothing on the books when the idea first floated and several totally unanticipated or dreamed of things surfaced that were very time-critical, with Monday being the Key Beer Can of the various things. Funny how that goes. For...

Ah, the glories of the point. Spent about a decade surfing there all the time, knew which pieces of concrete rip rap had the rebar sticking out...a handy thing at higher tides. Rockdancing down to save others boards...don't know if anybody would do that these days, at least if they would for strange...

not going to make it due to Reality issues

Priceless..."Reality issues"...I hate those...

Nels

I'm not going to make it this time...life got complicated in and from unexpected directions. Weather is epic in SoCal though. Hope everybody has a great time.

Nels

Ultimately...it will probably be more about the people first, then the boards, then the waves... The weather...nobody knows or can know. It could be 80 degrees or 58 degrees. SoCal is really off the rails as far as predictablity goes these days. Late November into early December is between the seaso...

Only thing about El Cap...kind of fickle, isn't it? And if it's on and the weekend...well, there's no secrets any more. Not that going for the party wouldn't be enough!

Nels

Nels would you take $14,750 for the Blob? With that much of a discount you would have to pick it up here in California...but it's summer and we're supposed to get some surf soon... Once upon a time that little board probably had a great value to someone. That is the only thing that might make sense...

A cool $15,000 is the "buy now" price for this piece of (my) surfing history...

Does the person sell other stuff?

Somebody does...

Great read. Brilliant mind. Uplifting observations.

Thanks for posting.

Well, the weather has been warm...some hot and humid temps...upper 70's at the beaches...water temp in OC is pretty warm, in the upper 60's I'm told. It was 62 degrees in the water at Zuma this week and that felt good...morning in a wetsuit but afternoon short play session in trunks. Huntington Clif...

Must be money laundering, because looking at that I'd say it's a mediocre reshape of a broken old double foam stringer longboard in poor condition. There's a balsa bellyboard from the 50's that has potential Bob Simmons lineage (which can't be verified beyond whatever it is today I guess)...and they...

First off...Glendora is east of L.A., near the mountains. Closest beaches are actually due south in Orange County - notably Huntington and Newport. Further south along the coast is Laguna and eventually San Clemente, epicenter of the Surf Industry and featuring one of the highest densities of surfer...

Every time I look at that board ( especially because of the vent plug) it reminds me of a hollow plastic kayak.. So it gets me to wondering has anyone ever produced a bodyboard that way? And what might be some of the problems doing it that way? Late 1960s I believe, somebody made some bellyboards o...

Don't worry too much about not having a lot of responses Amen. I'm one of the people who basically is at the point of "lay down - go fast" and don't much care how I achieve that. Eff or somebody put it beautifully: Lower the bar. But that doesn't mean I don't love seeing what everybody el...