…get one of THESE happening !!!
[ or, is this really just the answer to the other thread , "what tail should I go with on my noserider ? "…]
ben
This was also a Aquajet. Remember these? I guess history repeats itself…kinda.
Looks like fin cant taken to the extreme. Are there any fins on that?
This board was designed in response to observations made while hosing dog shit off a shovel. The board (and Newfoundland dog, Goomba) are now gone. (RIP) Goomba, at 150 pounds, provided plenty of research material. After performing backyard clean up chores, I would grab the garden hose with nozzle attached and spray the shovel clean. Noticing that when water hit the shovel blade, the downward force nearly yanked the shovel out of my hand, the light went on to attempt to shape contours similar to the shovel to replicate the same downward pressure on the tail of a noserider design. It’s in the archives somewhere and actually worked in practice. “The Shitshoveler” might be an appropriate model name for this one.
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:Black"><span style="font-size:6px">"Goomba"
<span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="color:Black"><span style="font-size:6px"> "The Shitshoveler"</span></span></span>
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Looks like fin cant taken to the extreme. Are there any fins on that?
YEP !
1973…there was ONE…
I bought my AQUAJET back in 1970 and 50 lbs ago. It is a 6 foot roundtail 22" wide. It is in nearly the same condition as when I bought it new. I still ride it on really big days. Back when I bought it weighing 175 lbs I wasn’t thinking of its properties of great flotation. Sure does come in handy now at 225 lbs.
For 34 years this board has taken a pounding…the bottom, rocks, other boards and craniums. This board always comes out unscathed. I have made a few minor repairs to a few small fractures in the outer shell to prevent any leaking into the honeycomb sandwich.
As for speed…I can vouch for my particular board…it is very fast…and noisy. On crowded days and the grems are getting greedy, I am outside laying in wait for the monster I now need in order to be able catch a wave on. Once on the wave the weeners who don’t see me… hear the hollow drumlike pounding closing in on them.
My daughter won’t ride this relic…too ugly!!! She has a pretty board. So I save this ride for those “special” overhead days we have once in a while in Massachusetts just for myself…nobody else!
I will take a pic of my AQUAJET and post it in the very near future. SeeYa!
Wow - I wanna see that pic myself . Not least cos I may have been the guy who sold it to ya…
doc…
I really like the variety of ideas in surfing.
6’ AquaJet for “big” waves! That’s a hilarious thought!
I’m the guy who posted that our shop in SanFrancisco was the one that straightened out the AquaJet plugs from Richard Brewer. I saw them, but was not the guy asked to straighten the twist and fill in the right side deck tail area…the other shaper was asked.
My idea of “big” waves is something surfed with between an 8’6"er and a 9’6"er…and I missed out on Mavericks!
Can you imagine the hilarious film you could get of surfers trying to ride big waves with a 6’ board?
Hey, I wonder if Chipfish has any shots of Cheyne H. surfing Waimea on one of his McCoy’s? Wasn’t that board around 6’? I sure as hell wouldn’t want to try it! CRAZY!!! :)~
Seen that clip many times.
It’s a joke. Cheyne is prolly one of the only surfers skilled enough to ride shorter than 8’ boards at Wiamea, and he’s just bouncing and outta control the entire drop, no bottom turn, a slight angle off, and it’s not close to set wave sizing.
Notice he didn’t even bother to try to ride another wave there.
Modern tow boards, on waves 15’ bigger than Cheyne’s, are mostly done on sub 6’ x 16" deep concave waveski boards. They work fine.
It’s the THOUGHT of paddling a 6’ board into big waves that’s the joke. Can be done, but any idiot can dodge cars on a busy freeway while skateboarding accross it too.
Why bother, you can also practice swimming with a 40 lbs lead weight, about the same sense.
I’m with ya’. Some things are better left alone.
I used to tote my 6’10" Semi-Gun with me every winter and swore I could ride anything with it. Several years ago, while surfing the Overhead during a big winter swell, I was proven wrong. Getting tossed on a 14’ face, because I had to take off late enough to drop in, was much more than an eye opener. It was a beating that made me believe in the use of PROPER equipment for the conditions. Soon thereafter, I picked up an 8’ Denny Smith semi-gun and have learned the joys of riding (well overhead) waves. The board makes a perfect measuring stick as well. If the waves are too big for the board, then they’re too big for me. 
I only wish I had nearly as much sense as you have.
Problem here, you see the waves from like 200 yards away, and the paddleouts are really tough, so you give it a go no matter what.
Most years, a 9’6"er did just fine. Some years, an 8’6"er was pushing it.
This year, an 8’er had to make do. Lucky for me, this being the best and biggest year in quite a while, I sprained my medial collateral beginning of Dec.
This Aquajet was purchased from a Mike Houghton at Jasper’s Surf Shop in Orleans, Cape Cod, MA.
As far as the brutal skepticsm from the non-believer ( I will not mention him by name). All I can say is the world is full of people who shortchange themselves by putting limits on themselves. I leave people like that in my wake (and I am not laughing).
There are many surfers and beach harpies who have been stoked having witnessed my and many others creative abilities on all types of waves and with as many conditions past & present. Not only was I surfing on waves anywhere from 8 -14 ft on a 6 ft Aquajet, my best surfing buddy was doing it on his 4-11 Fat Albert. What I was doing was almost normal campared to my friend GaGa B. exploits on his board.
A reversed late take-off to you my friend! Mahalo!
Necessity is the mother of invention.
On big days (the few times they occur in my part of the planet), when my buddies and I couldn’t get outside at Rexhame Beach we all mobilized a little further south down to Brant Rock and walked 100 yards out on the Jetti with bords under arms and jumped into the raging sea and took it from there…WILD TIMES and great memories! Some people never get these days, they are gifts from the Lord.
Spectators thought we were insane. We all suffered little brain damage from this, but most of us still have a pulse.
Hilarious…you even talk like a non surfer!
Good stuff, we’ll be seeing you in the obit column pretty soon in the newspapers.
Is your “8-14” even bigger than overhead.
You’re hilarious!
I guess you above all would know what a non-surfer talks like. This is my final response to you.
You have little else to do on this forum than to be insulting, derisive and inflammatory with your pathetic posts. I doubt most posters on this forum find you informative or intelligent. Try being a little more constructive and entertaining with your posts. I really don’t care whether you believe me or not…I don’t know you and you mean nothing to me. In fact you are fast becoming a waste of time to me, which I will no longer have a part in.
As far as finding me in the obits… I am 51 years old and still cranking along. I have survived more situations than you could ever know. What are your accomplishments?
It in’t bragging if it’s fact.
Gratia vobis et pax a Deo Patre nostro et Dominio Jesu Christo. (Look this one up Einstein)
Actually, you know less than the little you think you know!
Most guys here know I’m a straight shooter, to the point of abusive and abrasive.
I call a spade a spade, with no censorship or care about your emotional response.
You might stay on this forum a little longer, maybe search thru the archived posts, and you’ll just find out how wrong you are.
Yes, I don’t know you, and you don’t know me, so why let my post get you all out of kilter? Maybe a hint of truth striking too close to home?
You can just rise above and not respond, to shut my ideas out completely…good for you. But if you DID read some of the archived postings by me, you’ll find that beneath my gruff exterior, I’m really just trying to help people enjoy the sport of surfing as much as possible, and I happen to have more experience than most. And yes, prolly more than you.
OK, did I miss something here…
What’s with the bad vibes Mad Dog, LeeDD was only making fun…that’s his style mate!
We are very accepting of everyone here, we are all different but the same at the same time.
One more for the road… I was being tactful to you up to now. Now it is really becoming entertaining! I hope all the readers are enjoying these exchanges! I am exposing this phoney for all to see his dour misanthropic view of life as he can’t help himself as he maligns it.
The gloves are off, now let me get to my point. I am new to this forum. Sean McCabe sent me this link when I told him I still rode an Aquajet and he stated a few folks might find that interesting.
I know what I know… and what I know is my suspicion of you’re being a chickenshitter who spends way too much time wading in your on self-indulgent B.S. instead of being in the water riding.
Straight shooter? You sir are confusing bad manners with giving people the “hard truth”, which in my particular case you have no knowledge of. There really is no other emotion on my part other than gaining an intense disdain for you, equal that of stepping in a fresh, steaming pile of your chickenshit on the beach. For a miserable cuss like you this is probably your life’s objective, to insult and get as many people steamed at you as possible in your shallow, pathetic lifetime that will hopefully be cut short by getting run over by the local cesspool pumper as you are walking out you shrink’s office sucking your thumb and soiling your diapers because mummy didn’t love you. It really makes one wonder…sheesh!
You may call a spade a spade. I know a wackjob when I see one. Do you really think people respect your self aggrandizing wisdom? Geez Louweeze! You are no purveyor of truth. Go get some shock therapy.
Do you really think I am going waste my time researching the archives for your self-proclaimed “pearls of wisdom” to further confirm my already formed opinion of you? You are even more of a wackjob than I first suspected. I don’t have to go any further that your recent posts in this particular discussion “attention aqua jet men…”.
I thought it would be fun to post something on being an owner and rider of this particular surfboard. My board is still in great condition, I have enjoyed my Aquajet for a long time and I continue to ride it well in just the way I have described in a previous post. In fact, when they lay me out in the box I will probably have it slung under my arm along with my favorite recurve bow.
I am looking forward to taking a photo of it to post it in this forum and share with those who are interested. You obviously don’t think much of this board. I believe you posted your venom in this forum with the sole purpose of dumping on anyone who had anything positive to say about this board. The truth is …I really like this board and know how to ride it under some extreme conditions that perhaps nobody else can and you are envious of this talent.
Primitive equipment? Yes… but remember I am from the stoneage.
I also own a 8 - 2 longboard and a new 7 - 2 custom shaped model a la Mike Diffenderfer. I have been surfing & skiing since I was 10 years old…what’s that??..41 years. I can ride a shithouse door off a tuna trawler better than most of these newbies on thier slick new hitech sticks.
You really have to stop these self-destructive activities and get a life.
Veritas! It will set you free!
I’m telling on you now…
Hicksy