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speaking of raisins , i must be turning into a queenslander , its actually been feeling cold in the water lately , was in my springy today thinking maybe a steamer could be handy …
freezing winter so far , whats it been like down there in Vico and NZ ?
regards
BERT
Feeling a bit cold in the springy? you guys are cruel
Vicco surfwise is in a mid winter pattern - we are getting deep lows with very straight southerly fetch rolling through. They pull up air from the Antarctic and dump snow on the mountains, but don’t bring alot of great swell, just make it bitterly cold - NSW’s reaps the benefit when the lows roll into the pacific. Water temp is 14 which isn’t quite brass monkey conditions, but when the air temp is 10 degrees it’s a bit of an effort getting out there. When the lows start tracking a bit deeper south, we’ll start getting those great southwest swells again, and because the water won’t warm up again until October, the crowds won’t be too bad.
I’m staying indoors for now - so I guess I’m not a real Victorian (making a double wing, swallow, mackee style quad for Winki in September)
Hey Pinhead I’ve seen a couple of Bruce McKee quads, they were sweet…
Double flyers in wood? I’ve done a couple where the flyer was overlapped wood, indeed one a double flyer…
While I never rode those two, they felt like there was a lot of bulk and additional stiffness in the tail with the overlapped sections, which I had at least two inches long for strength.
What you planning there?
Josh
Josh,
I’ve got the tail with two strips that run up the inside an inch past the front fin dot. Two strips run the other way down on the inside to the back fin dot. There is another two strips on the rail between the wings, but the outline cuts into one and it tapers away to nothing behind the front wing.
The pics not very good but you get the general idea (haven’t done the tail block yet). There is a thick over lapped section at the back of the front fin. Not sure what effect this will have.
we’ve had an incredible winter here (nsw north coast) maybe the best for over ten years and with a developing la nina it’s looking good for summer cyclogenesis. that double flyer looks sweet.