Bisect committed all of its boards to Boardworks shapes. When they couldn’t get Boardworks they were in 6’ shorebreak with their leash caught around a rock. I love the way my bisects travel and the boards ride well, I wanted a polyester bisect but they weren’t making them any more. Thane is living the manufacturing nightmare. As he has told me “I wish I had gone with Surftech”. Witness how far the high and mighty have fallen-
Bart, In a recent conversation with Thane Pope, he told me that he’s regrouping and reorganizing his business. Among other things he’ll be bringing the manufacturing closer to home for better quality control, and changing the name. There is a high demand for his product, even if some “purists” object. Ironically, one of the areas where epoxy boards are becoming more and more popular is the birthplace of surfing: Hawaii. But we shouldn’t worry, as in all handmade products, there will always be a demand for something different, and custom made. Keep shaping guys! Doug
I`ve got news for you. Hawaii is not the birthplace of surfing. That would be a great subject for a research project, the origin of surfing. Another myth: Hawaii is not the modern shrine to aloha.
ted, i wanna hear more.
Ted. You’re probably right about the birthplace of surfing. Who really knows? Hawaii, however, is the place most mainlanders think of when they think of “ancient” surf culture, simply because there is a record of it: in old photos and older Hawaiian drawings, and it’s therefore the oldest surf culture the general public knows about. Regardless, the fact that Hawaiian surfers are embracing epoxy boards is significant in my mind. Doug
Boards greater than five feet in length were found only in New Zealand, Tahiti and Hawaii. References to the positions of sitting, kneeling, and standing are only found in Hawaiian meles (chants). There are additional ancient Hawaiian terms for different types of surfboards, including: paha (PAH-ha), puua (poo-OO-ah), and papa hee nalu (pa-pa HAY-ay NA-lu -- literally, "A board for sliding waves"). There were also special terms for handling surfboards, like haawi papa hee nalu, which meant to loan a board with the understanding that it would be returned. Boards were apparently loaned but rarely given away. Early European accounts of the late 1700s and early 1800s mention long boards specifically in only two island groups -- Hawaii and Aotearoa. The boards in New Zealand were described as reaching six feet in length, but only nine inches in width! Boatswain’s mate on the Bounty, James Morrison wrote, in the early 1800s, that boards of “any length” were used in Tahiti. Four-foot boards were known in the Marquesas, but in Melanesia, Micronesia and Western Polynesia, boards were only a few feet long – a maximum of four feet. Reed bundles were ridden prone off the coast of Rapa Nui (Easter Island). ( http://www.best.com/~malcolm/surf/legends)
This is an interesting post as it was cut and pasted from a post I made in LBN. I love the way the thread morfed into the origin of surfing. Pretty cool! I love riding polyester boards but having a lighter composite board makes it so much easier to climb the stairs after a surf here in Surf City and I love my Hynson shape. What would you call someone who takes off on you, brings the section down on you and then loses their board into you? Thank Kahuna that I wear a helmet. I didn’t even give him stink eye.