Ahh yes, Friday night post-work shenanigans…
“Rosco” is a cabinet maker in the workshop next to ours…he came up with this little number after the box of beers was empty.
He is totally oblivious to recent trends in the mainstream surf media, indeed he’s never shaped a board, but we thing he has a bright future!
Dimensions:- 11’ x 8" x 3"
Rocker:- Nose - 0" , Tail - 0"
Construction:- Composite, laminated ply, cardboard and sticky tape.
Josh
Arrgh, pics…
Why fix what were’nt broke!?
RIDE REPORT!!!
ROFL!!
Obviously the ideal board for big Pipeline!
Hahahahahahaa
Unfortunately you spelt it incorrectly - you missed an “h” before the “i” in “composite”.
Also, that is how i’d pronounce that word after a box beers…
Classic man, nice one.
Is it for sale?
The colors are amazing. Is that a resin tint? Swirl? If ou painted it how did you do the tape offs to get that much detail and depth?
Love the concept!
Stick it on Evil bay and see how many bids you can rack up.
Don’t forget to put the word “vintage” in the description. Doubles its perceived value instantly.
Also “wallhanger” is a great evocative word to describe something that shouldn’t be seen in public.
first good post I have seen in a loooong time!what’s with all this alaia this and olo that,all the haole wanna be like old hawaiians?Bet anything,if old Hawaiians had thought of fins,they would have used them!!make olo,alaia,kiko’o,kioe,omo,'onini,'owili,paha,pu’ua,and other papa he’e nalu as art projects.
considering his speciality is cabinets and not boards your mate Rosco did intuitively get a lot of things right. The fin wing will prevent ventilation from reaching the lower half of the fin. The winglets will generate vortexes and break up the boundary layer which will be building up in the rear section of the board. By avoiding a glossed and polished finish, water friction at high speed will be reduced. The peeling paint helping to break up the boundary layer at all speeds. High speed considerations are an issue as the board width of 8" suggests it is suitable for tow in applications only. The lack of nose rocker is not a concern as at high speed only the last 2’ or so will be in the water. The front 9’ will therefore act as a dampener to prevent the board from chattering.
He has followed the Simmons path with the parallel rails. When combined with no tuck I would think that this board is best ridden with one edge permanently engaged and rail to rail manouvres avoided, but not everyone wants to wiggle anyway. The square tail with its vertical transom will give excellent release, but maybe an enhancement would be to angle the transom forward? Beefing up the fin construction would also be a good idea.
oh yes your comment about the wax - I think add footstraps too.
cheers,
Mr J
Hey Mike,
You’ve tech-talked me til I’m numb!
The wax reference is from “Mad Wax” , a classic Aussie short surf movie with Tom Carroll, RCJ and Kong. If you don’t know it you miss the joke. (I’ll explain later…)
Josh
don’t want to rain on your parade or anything but the planshape’s kinda a bit too parallel for my liking, & the rails are kinda square.
Hey Oldy,
Yeah, well, I tried to get Rosco into some curves, but as a cabinet maker he’s kinda fixated on flat, straight and right-angled. Still, he has an uncanny eye for fin placement…
Josh
oh ok, I think i’ve seen Max Wax but i can’t remember any of its content and I missed the triangular wax joke, but I still think it needs footstraps!
i dont think anyone who enjoys riding an alaia or olo is trying to discredit fins or foam or whatever. its more about fun and exploring the surfing experience. its great to see so many people gving it a go.
yes, I’ve read Bjis posts on alaia’s and they are fascinating coz he has got to truly understand how rails grip/release due to having fins removed from the equation and I think he has re-written some of our conventional understanding - eg hard edged channels don’t grip instead lengthy curved concaves grip. I get the impression that the line holding ability of the alaia comes from the hull concave and not the rails? (he abandonded rounded rails). Like Roscos board the alai have a flat outer rail band (although with much less depth) and they are combined with bevels rather than square edges. Anyone know what the flat outer rail band does - prevent catching or sinking but still give release?
I think that foam and fin enthusiasts such as myself can learn from Bjis’s alaia experiences. When I put a double concave into a compsand I had to draw a stringer line then shape the double concave into as sharp a ridge as I could, however the corecel skin when vacuumed on the soft eps rounded off the ridge, I knew this would happen but it wasn’t what I wanted, so on another attempt I scored the corecel with an x-acto knife to make it bend into a sharp ridge down the centre of the double concave. However from what Bjis is saying sharp ridges don’t bite - instead they release! so the scoring of the corecel is a waste of time if its line holding ability I am after. Certainly the rounded double concave seems to work fine.
anyway back to Rosco’s plank. I think rebuild in pawlonia, not bother with the fin, put a deep single concave down the entire length. Its zero rocker would allow easy length modification by sawing off lengths from the nose until it became manageable. I reckon it would work when towed behind a boat as a water ski.