How about free foam and glassing for people who go to shops, fill out an entry blank and shape a new design by a deadline? Judged on rideability, this could be local, regional, and end in a world competition every year. Prize money can come in from the chemical suppliers, toolmakers, and suppliers to the custom board business. To incentivize the foamers, some of the prize money should go to retooling the molds for the winning shape, each year. Steve Shaw 808-521-0800
yep shaw is here
may the games begin
whadda bout the shaping races ?
[ a greg noll’s factory story]
so have you printed the entry forms?
when’s the deadline?
will o.b. root be a judge?
will there be a george weaver award for
glassing on the beach?
[feral board building}
free shipping to thailand?
why dont the soviets front the contest
arent they the real developing industrial nation?[with cheap labor]
nice to have dr vice admiral shaw aboard
aloha from waipouli…
…ambrose…
tell em to send me a blank
russian blanks are sposed to be HOT!!!
Hi Ambrose, good to read your letter. Can’t we have the entry forms distributed with the Kuhio Hwy tamale supplier? I am sure one of the readers hiding in the ether has a relative who makes that TDI the Chinese will be trying to keep from seeping into the Pearl River Delta. TDI Jr., you have got to come up with a nice round 25k for the 1st annual surfboard design derby! The same goes for the heirs of the Methyl Ethyl Ketone Peroxide fortune; and oh, the Acetone Magnate! Don’t forget Reichold Chemical and 3M. Its time to rise and shine! All these years you have kept surfers in the water and surfboard builders zitless. But, well, the molders are catching up with the stodgy old designs, and the chemical menu could change overnight. You have all seen the very large polyethylene freeway dividers that Caltrans fills up with water? Hmmmmm. Boards built that way could be recycled. And foam. Here’s Ambrose over on Kauai. He wants to enter some new shapes for 2007. Of course, he will need special glue-ups if his creations exceed, as is likely, the dimensions of the foamer’s molds. Imagine how nettlesome a really scultped spoiler could be at the tail. Could this be called a spoiler? How would it play in Thailand, or over at the sporting goods section at the Big Box? No matter, because the following year it would be replaced by an even better design. Chow Hana Ambrose!
go shaw
in the promotional immage of
george run run Shaw
I could see you stepping up to the board room table
in an italian suit with a beautiful chinese interpreter lady on your arm ready to charm 25k down the line and through the bowl
and do a nose tweak exiting the pit
gliding out on the shoulder
over the deep pacific blue
sparkling reflecting pool
…ambrose…
Go Go Shaw
Form Letter: Bayer Material Science LLC, 100 Bayer Road, Pittsburgh PA 15205-9741, ph 412-777-2175, fax 412-777-4183, bayermaterialsciencenafta.com. Dear Friends: I am involved in designing and building surfboards, hand-shaped from polyurethane and based on two components which you supply: isocynanate and polyol. I write to ask you to help sponsor a yearly surfboard design competition to encourge a robust development of surfboard designs, on an annual basis, rather than the ad hoc developments we are seeing today. As you probably know, if surfboards do not lend themselves to design improvement, then they could be blow-molded like water bottles. Of course, urethane would be useless in this event. If this is not of interest to Bayer, could you refer me to another isocyanate/polyol producer? Since there are others in this industry interested in this project, I would like to share your response at an industry forum. Sincerely______________
OKAY, I’ll do that. O.B, Root & group can judge it. Weaver glasses it. Ambrose design it. And anyone else may want to send letters, starting with this one- this is a new swell folks, of a progress- you all are needed to pave the way. How many blanks do you need Ambrose? I feel my TDI-induced headache leaving already. Good Old Bayer Aspirin! Tanks Ambrose!
brilliant send it the response would be entertaining
wow .
…ambrose…
What is Randy Rarick’s phone number?
808 and i forget the rest
…ambrose…
bayer waimea 5000
Ambrose, isn’t Waimea the place where people get together for drumming off toluene diisocyanate? I called that number to check on this sport but there was no ring, no tone, no mo nutting. Freel, I tot derwas one Lono insideah. Sheesh
P.s. (porrrrgot samting) one of you Hits needs to use the Bayer form letter and substitute for Bayer the address you find at www.lyondell.com. which says Lyondell is no. 3 producer of TDI. Ambrose and I have no letterhead like some of you Hits, Chow Hana. Now lets get this party started!