Paipo eye-candy

[nomastomas]

Looks like Gus Acosta's "Wave Arrow" is now available on the West Coast:

http://hoytedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... arrow.html

...and here it is in full dress:

http://hoytedesigns.blogspot.com/2012/0 ... thing.html

More Wave Arrow http://www.wavearrow.com/index.html

[bgreen]

Nomastomas,

Do you much about Hoyte or have an e-mail you could pm? I have a 3/4 finished interview with Gus Acosta waiting photo captions and some extra detail.

Regards

Bob

[nomastomas]

Only that he was a CI shaper for 15yr and is now building boards in the "Oxtura" area. He's on my short list of shaper's-I-want-a-board-from. There's an email on his blog site. -tp

[cornish-paipoman]

It's an odd looking sucker! I really like the concave deck, kinda like a modern approach to the 'spoon'.

[rodndtube]

Tons of design niceties in Gus's board -- little things that help the prone rider, not to mention his entire board bottom evolution. I would like to try it in a narrower version -- 23 inches is just too wide for me.

[SJB]

I would like to try the scooped tail design. On the standard Austin design with all four appendages in action I find my kick fins spend as much time above the water as below. Maybe the scooped tail would fix that?

[nomastomas]

...or simply going to a shorter length? The Acosta/Hoyte board is 50" with about a 4'-6" arching recess in the tail. I'm not sure how functional the "wings" are on the side, other than to increase the rail line which would only lengthen the turning radius. Why not just drop down to a 46" length?

I keep coming back to the Boogie design. It's fast, turns easily (especially with small side-bites), duck dives easily and allows full use of fins. Only thing I don't like is that I find them too flexible.

[SJB]

Point well taken. Rod has suggested in the past that board length should come to just below the sternum.......and on me that would be 46"......4" off my standard Austin.
Yea....I like the boogie board too but agree that the Austin gives needed rigidity and the skegs are great for avoiding that boogie board sidewise slide toward shore.

[bgreen]

Gus Acosta advised me:

" have a licensing agreement with IAN FOO he is bringing the wave arrow into production now thats HYPERNALU
in KONA three versions. all soft ! hard bottom soft top! and all hard! in all sizes small medium large and extra
large russel hoyte will be doing the made in america version. with ins consent. please up date piapo forum. the
all soft should be 100dollars soft top 200 dollars all hard 300".


Bob

[GeoffreyLevens]

Great prices! How soft is the soft? Like a conventional bodyboard w/ carbon rods inside?

[Uncle Grumpy]

Looking forward to checking all of them out.
Bob,
Can you find out when and where they will be available stateside?

[bgreen]

Uncle G,

Russell Hoyte e-mailed me:

"We are in Southern California, in Ventura, an hour north of LA. Feel free to give out my e-mail address hoytedesigns@yahoo.com and blogspot. www.hoytedesigns.blogspot.com

Our website will be live at the end of next week. www.hoytedesigns.com

Thanks and feel free to ask any questions if needed".

Bob

[Ted]

Rod,

Did you get to ride the wave arrow when you were here? (and how was it?)

Ted

[Ted]

http://www.hyprnalu.com/#!vstc24=retro-boards

Paipo boards at the Hyprnalu site. I'll go have a look next week.

[rodndtube]

Rod,

Did you get to ride the wave arrow when you were here? (and how was it?)

Ted

I only paddled it out one day, probably the smallest day of the lot on the Big Island. Didn't last long on it as I had trouble adjusting to the length, width and total volume. However... I did get a favorable taste for the Wave Arrow's overall bottom shape and would love to try out a narrower version (something in the 20-21 inch range rather than 23-24 inches) and a bit shorter (believe the version I had was 54 or 55 inches).

As you have been doing, my tropical/reef boards have become slightly narrower and thinner over the past couple of years -- my original Austin (the baseline Austin) is still good in punchy surf -- but the RPM Model is my "good" surfing waves board. The Orange Matter is my go-to East Coast board where I need the extra flotation to catch the weaker waves. So... the moral of the story is that the current Wave Arrow is just "too big" for this guy, me, who wants to ride a "short board." That is also the same story with my nice twin-fin Freeline paipo fish -- a non-traveling board -- even though it meets my length, width and volume prejudice, it just doesn't get ridden and evaluated often.

[rodndtube]

http://www.hyprnalu.com/#!vstc24=retro-boards

Paipo boards at the Hyprnalu site. I'll go have a look next week.

Sounds like it might be one of their carbon fiber boards. Check it out... and get some waves! Paul surfed Pine Trees yesterday and some of the other south Kona spots earlier on that south swell.