Anybody notice that somehow shortboards are more acceptable at work than longboards? Whenever I run into someone in the business world who surfs, it sems that shortboarders are valued for being athletic, competitive, aggressive, and longboarders are written off as being either frivoulous or beginners.
Perhaps a much larger fraction of longboard owners are frivolous or beginners?
My advice: get a van. Board in boardbag under other van stuff.
Perhaps a much larger fraction of longboard owners are frivolous or beginners?
Oh, I’m definitely frivolous. I just resent it when people assume that from some aspect of my first impression. I’d much prefer I get to go ahead and prove my light and silly nature on my own
Steve Brom designed the Stepchild for a customer who traveled to the West Coast and wanted to be able to keep a board in his rental car when on business trips. That board would fit in one of those boxes.
Everyone has a passion and our is just riding waves–
some people golf–some play checkers or chess–
if we are prepared and get the chance to get it-
we just gotta do what we gotta do.
Even if you surf longer boards any board
you get in the water with you will find you always get
better waves!! Anything is better then nata.
A friend told me we could only expect to surf like we do
for another 1000 days- thats too short-we’re only 60-
so take it when ever you can or you might run outa time!!
Who else but surfers or golfers get out as early as we do-
and except for govmt workers would get grumpy if we got ours.
A healthy body and mind produces better profits! If you are compentent in what you do you will be better if you just get some waves and the looks shouldn’t matter… if it does you can probably afford that pope bi-sect and just deduct it from your taxes.
Not sure if this is any use, but I remember reading an artical (and I think it was in surfer’s path about 3 issues ago) about this guy who built a travel long board in 2 or 3 sections that came apart and were all joined together by internal tubes, the thing just kinda slotted together, look real strange and not entirly sure how he got it to work, but he’d just roll up at the beach screw the 2 halfs of hid long bord together and away he’d go, looked ok in the wave too.
I think the Popes have a patent on take-apart boards. Wasn’t there an Austrian guy who posted some photos on here some months back about making his own take-apart. Then Thane popped up in the guys thread talking about patents. Sounded like lawyers raining on the guy’s parade. As if he was a threat. Jeeeeez.
Trade in the Subaru? Been there. Over the last 15 years went from Subaru wagon to Explorer to Toyota truck to Expedition and back to Subaru wagon. Full circle. Not much chance of changing again. My wife has a Toyota van, I guess I could always swap her on the days when I have both boards & passengers…
Dang. I can’t believe it took 25 posts to figure that out. shakes head Thanks, everyone.
Due to the potential of some work funded travel to Israel, South Africa, and Indo in the next year, I was doing a forum search on homebuilt sectioned surfboards, and found this thread.
I pulled up the Pope patent (US5711692 A) and have to say this is a pretty narrowly defined case and would be a piece of cake to design around.
The whole case and all the claims are predicated on “a single loadbearing tube extending concentrically along a centrally located longitudinal axis of the hull at said joint, wherein a first portion of the tube assembly extends into a hole formed in the front section through the first interfacing surface and a second portion of the tube assembly extends into a hole in the rear section through the second interfacing surface, said single loadbearing tube bearing most of the bending and shear forces exerted on the hull at said joint.”
There are certainly other ways to connect to pieces of board together.
Keep in mind that you cannot patent anything that is in the public domain. Since Swaylocks has a critical mass of both amature and professional board builders I am certain it qualifies as public domain. Any idea that is not covered by a patent tha is posted here becomes public domain and useable by all.
As such, if you have a way to connect 2 halves of a board (or any other invention) that you want to be able to use, but don’t want to limit use of, just post it here.
