Every once in awhile you come across a board better than the rest you’ve been riding… Something that elevates the fun factor to a nice high on every surf… I’m fortunate to have found that board in my latest personal board… Here it is… I’m stoked!!!
1 lb foam S glass 6-4-4 top, 6 bottom… 9’-6" x 27 wide x 4" Very light and surfs so fun!
The cool thing about this board is I saved the file… I can get close again if needed… I really dig the APS3000!!!
Looks maneuverable but slow, any video for us ?
looks good, like the tiger print is that a spray on paint or cotton inlay. I really like the concept of SUP not just for the wave catching abilities but the whole waterperson feel that you must get.
If you dont mind me asking how much volume is in that board and whats a good rule for SUP volume vs paddler weight, say paddler weight is 115 kgs do you try and get 130kgs in volume? and are you doing anything special with bottom shape?
thanks
looks quick enough to me, carve. nice one mate.
does it have chimed rails or is it just a trick of the light in the photos?
Looks maneuverable but slow, any video for us ?
Hahahahaha!!! Sorry, no video… If I was into going straight down the line like a statue then maybe I’d video for speed… Hehehe…
…I think that to maneouver these beasts you need a lot of strength…besides the paddle
looks good, like the tiger print is that a spray on paint or cotton inlay. I really like the concept of SUP not just for the wave catching abilities but the whole waterperson feel that you must get.
If you dont mind me asking how much volume is in that board and whats a good rule for SUP volume vs paddler weight, say paddler weight is 115 kgs do you try and get 130kgs in volume? and are you doing anything special with bottom shape?
thanks
Its a airbrush job done at our glassers… I told them to surprise me… Looks kinda cool…
These boards are really evolving… Bottom, thickness placement, foil, rocker, rails, etc, etc, etc… It all varies so a 9-6 for a 200 lb. guy would change a few things instead of just volume as say for a guy 150 lbs… Most shapers I’ve talked to think its just a thicker, thinner thing or a wider, narrower thing… Because I get to do it every day I’m finding out there are so many variables… What kind of waves do they surf… Do they like to turn hard or glide… What kind of surface conditions and the the most important of all… What is their ability…
I also have some really good test pilots that give excellent feedback… With all that said, you still need to read my signature! Hahahahaha!!!
looks quick enough to me, carve. nice one mate.
does it have chimed rails or is it just a trick of the light in the photos?
Howzit oldy!
The rails are just normal tucked under edge like boards from the 80’s…
Well, gotta go surf… Its soooo perfect right now!!!
Aloha
I don’t think i could ever get into the SUP, if ONLY cuz the additional weight and gear (paddle). i tend to go minimal on things. (mebs if i lived right on a break i’d be into it - but usually you gotta hump it in where i live… and i’m Lazy lazy)
BUT, these pics of you laying that aircraft carrier over on a rail, with yr paddle giving you some leverage – well that shit is just awesome. I enjoy the living sh!t outta those pics.
Awesome posts, Carvnalu. ( BTW - yr cousin over here CarvOla says “saludos” :D)
saludos,
jason
Carve,
Here’s a couple of pics of the second SUP that I have done. It’s 11’6, a scaled up version of a 9’ Takayama Nose Rider. 2 Lbs EPS, 4-4-6 top, 4-6 bottom, RR Epoxy. The fellow in the picture is the owner along with his homemade paddle. Number 3 is a 12 footer for me.
Aloha,
Dave_D
Hi Blane,
I tried using a paddle here on the bore, man it is really hard on the muscles if you aren’t used to it, so when I see your pics and read about your new venture, I am further filled with respect as to what you guys are doing with surfboard design and how you are pushing the limits. Laird Hamiliton was over here recently and paddled from London down the Thames and across the channel, the busiest sealane in the world, to France, in about 14 hours I believe. Some distance…
Just seen the photo’s of him surfing a SUP at ‘chopes’ on Tim McKenna’s site…
Surftech are shipping 6 or more Laird SUP’s into the UK next month, retail I hear is going to be near £1000, $1800 in your money. I don’t know how this compares to what you guys are building, but I sure like the look of your boards.
Glad you are enjoying them… Pretty fun on this end too!
Here’s a few more of my light, little Hot Dog board… Hehe…
From the other day at Avalanche… Avalanche is like a reverse Sunset Beach wave… Very challenging open ocean arena with mega power to spare… Whitewater here doesn’t dissapate for a long long ways so the hold downs can be brutal… This is actually a small day for it… Even then my fins were to small and my board being so light was bouncing and skittering around… Today the waves were bigger at Haleiwa and with bigger fins I was able to turn with confidence in the pit on some double overhead + bombs… All this fun is magnified because we’re on SUP boards!!!
Here I’m skipping on the face at Avalanche with little fins and my Hot Dog board… All is well so far…
Kinda eyeing up the situation thinking,“I wish I had bigger fins!” Hahaha!
About a hundred yards from the take off area you hit this inside section… I’m already doomed because its already doing the dreaded Avalanche hook way down the line and to top it off I gotta nurse this turn with my little fins… Although you can’t tell from these pics, I’m way to far back… Hehehe!!
As it stands up I’m thinking, “Wish I had bigger fins!”
Right here I’m thinking, “Wish I had Greg Noll’s Iron legs!”
KA-BOOM!!! Paddle goes one way, board goes the other… I go into the relaxed submissive rag doll state of mind… For the long hold down…Hehehehe!!!
After the yard sale I find my paddle waaaay inside… Ahhhh… Sure beats driving far to surf Town!!
Aloha… More pics of my friend to come…
Dave D,
NICE!!!
Hi CarveNalu,
Good vibes to you mate, amd I have to say nice waves, great physique, classic style, and some nerve to take on that avalanche. . . however, your sequence illustrates exactly what i mean about your board being slow. . . you straightened out because you were “too far back”, but really, the section in question was very short, and any board with a decent turn of speed would have cruised through it with ease. . . it was only a 20 foot section or so and wide open when you straightened out. . . . perhaps the fins were to blame? . . .you mentioned that the fins were too small. . . maybe you straightened out because the fins wouldn’t hold in? . . . in any case the board looks to be severely lacking in section making ability, sorry.
Thanks for sharing your stuff with us, I always enjoy your posts, but gotta say what I think and see!
Regards,
Roy
Seems I heard that Avalanche is the Hawaii 5-0 wave. Lived on North Shore for years, but never paddled out there. Check out that soup on the inside. Looks like a fun ride! By the way, 9-6 seems real small for SUP. How much to you weigh?
Hi CarveNalu,
Good vibes to you mate… but gotta say what I think and see!
Hahahaha!!! Whatever… I had a whole thing written out explaining the wave, picture angle why, this and that then it got erased when my internet went down… So forget it… Hey Roy, notice how I am able to not post in your threads unless its positive? Its a COURTESY to you… This is my last post to you regarding speed etc… You can have the last words… I don’t care… After this, I’m over my Roy… Oh Roy… YOU’RE SOOO FAST!!! Faster than any surfer I’ve ever seen anywhere in the galaxy!!! Your designs and theories are soooo AWESOME!!! You could be the smartest human on the planet and you try to surf too!! You’re my hero!!! Oh Roy, I showed your website to my friends and they couldn’t stop laughing at you and your boards and how you surfed and your really bright orange wetsuit… I sent them home… Nobody laughs at my Roy!!! One day, I want to learn how to go really really fast straight for the shoulder on small mushy waves just like Roy!!! One day, I’ll teach those dummys in that ASP World tour thing that turning hard on critical waves is not progressive surfing… Its all about going straight like a statue!!! AI, Slater, Machado… They got nothing on my Roy!!! And Roy does it soooo FAST!!! Ahhhhhhhh… Roy… You speed demon you… Good vibes to you mate… but gotta say what I think and see!
Howzit punasurf,
I weigh 175. I’m thick around the middle… To many years of beer and pupu’s!! Nowadays hardly any beer but still some pupu’s…
Aloha
Carve, I am loving it. 9-6 and 27 inches wide? I didn’t think you could put that many width inches in 9-6. But it looks and obviously rides great. You are leading the way. More pic’s please.
all the best.
Hi Carve, those photos are fantastic ! Great board design and art, love your work ! Great surfing too,wish I was there.
Regards, Brett.
Ya, I laid off the beers years ago. But once I scored my killer wife, put on thirty pounds in 9 years. She’s a great cook. Knocked of 10–20 to go.
And until you’ve been there, people just don’t know the power in country surf. Guaranteed it was way more heavy than the pictures show.
Aloha
