Greetings,
What board, or boards, would people select if they were going to be homeless or hiking, and have to carry everything on foot, (be it/they surf, knee, body, and/or skim, etc.)?
No question.... contact Dale Solomonson or Paul Gross for an inflatable surf mat.
That probably takes the prize for most minimal: collapsable, light, doubles as a bed… Great answer.
I would probably want to try keeping at least a short board.
Viper v7 fins, jaust about any board that is 6’6 or less, and a handboard.
I have had to bike with that for 8 or 9 miles and that was a nice ride (did have an ipod)
seconded…fins + surf mat and a handboard of some time.
depending on what sort of transport…a trunk board like the coles or a simmons…maybe one of the Y INT boards for pure durability.
fins, mat and handplane! and maybe a little ply bellyboard! Here’s a pic of my milk-crate travel quiver.
It’s two ply bellyboards, a 4GF mat, two handplanes and a pair of UDT fins. It all fits on the back of my bicycle too!
A twin fin fish depending on your abilty size and weight 5'2"-6'8" good all around board.
I see guys ride them from ankle sized to what ever they have the cods to drop into.
If I was going to be homeless I would want a good shopping cart to wheel all my stash around in. Everything needs to look real dirty and worn out so no one will rip me off while Im out surfing. Any board would be ok but it needs to look like shit so no one will steal it , thick layer of dirty wax a little dog shit smeared on so it smells bad. Never wash clothes or take a bath nor shave. Really want to look bad so no one bothers me. IS that your lifes goal, to be a homeless surf bum? Don't sound like much fun to me!
Personally,
I think a standard-ish performance-oriented short board, and a skim board would be a nice minimum, for me.
From there, I would say adding an extra small, versatile and experimental short board, (with removable fins), would be a nice max.
Other possibilities would include an improvement in the short board department, such as: a hybrid that provided personally satisfying single, twin, thruster, quad, and finless surfing. Or, making the short board(s) collapse into two- or three-piece design.
And, although I do not mat surf, I think adding one specifically for sleeping and surfing, would be a pretty good idea.
Beyond any further innovations, it seems to get to the point where I imagine I would be using broken boogie boards and stuff left around the beach or dumpsters and waxing with found candles, and/or body surfing, and that sort of thing.
“…dog shit smeared on so it smells bad. Never wash clothes or take a bath nor shave. Really want to look bad so no one bothers me. IS that your lifes goal, to be a homeless surf bum? Don’t sound like much fun to me!”
The point is that you don’t have to drag or leave your sh** all over the place: it stays with you. We’re on the top of the world over here in America…
It’s a hypothetical subject of individual contemplation, regarding limited quiver and board selection, Wood_Ogre.
And, I think the implications of such consideration is highly valuable and relative, no matter how someone decides to look at it…
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Personally,
I think a standard-ish performance-oriented short board, and a skim board would be a nice minimum, for me.
From there, I would say adding an extra small, versatile and experimental short board, (with removable fins), would be a nice max.
Other possibilities would include an improvement in the short board department, such as: a hybrid that provided personally satisfying single, twin, thruster, quad, and finless surfing. Or, making the short board(s) collapse into two- or three-piece design.
And, although I do not mat surf, I think adding one specifically for sleeping and surfing, would be a pretty good idea.
Beyond any further innovations, it seems to get to the point where I imagine I would be using broken boogie boards and stuff left around the beach or dumpsters and waxing with found candles, and/or body surfing, and that sort of thing.
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I don’t know what…
But, I recently stumbled upon, and found interesting:
Keep an eye on the dumpster at "da bu". You will eventually see the ideal homeless board. Aside from that I once shaped a 5'8" twin fin so it would go in the back seat whenever I was hitchin' and had the good fortune of being picked up by some cute little blonde in a V-dub.
If your going to be homeless best to do it in the wilderness with gear. Strap on my favorite 7’2" egg and go.
You wouldn't need a special back pack for that board. Just slip that fin over your head like a trucker hat, nose pointed skyward and start truckin'. Watch out for those redwood limbs and low overpasses though. You'd look like an Indian with single feather headress.