Does anyone out there make custom SUPs from the traditional Poly/PU materials or all epoxy? I guess epoxy is tougher and that's the reason why they are mostly made but wondered if anyone surfs SUPs made the "traditional" way? You can put carbon on the rails and I'm sure they will be lighter and tough enough for surfing? I've seen one guy making them but not many others.
I think they’d be just too damn heavy to handle.
12 footer tandem boards of the Sixty's were not too heavy to paddle, but they were too heavy to carry.
I think the best property of a poly/PU SUP would be the ease of ignition.
That, Mi Amigo, is one of the funniest comments I’ve ever read! BRAVO! Lucky I wasn’t drinking anything, I would have drowned the keyboard.
LOL - another good reason of why waterproof matches were invented…
poly can’t take paddle abuse
epoxy can it’s kinda flexible…
…ambrose…
poly glossed epoxy
also chips off alot…
Abusive use parameters
give perfectly valid
extra cirricular activities
a bad rap.
Three guys out time to leave
ESP ethical stand paddling.
Catch one wave ride it all the way
and go to the next spopt.
CPS considerate paddle study.
Frog you should really fire up the trolls by starting a thread titled:
‘Roy Stewart is making me a SUP, which is better, EPS or PU? hand or machine shaped?’
Poor Roy..........
I don’t think he’d ever make an SUP. I think it might violate his religious beliefs.
Last week, I did some pinline work for a guy. 12’ SUP. Poly.
I’m a fairly big guy.
Board was a bear to move.
Board was for a chick.
Hope she’s a weightlifter!
EPS is more managable.
Sammy, your comment was spot on!
Barry
Okay bear with me:-)
Are there many shapers making custom SUPs with EPS foam but instead of using epoxy outer, using the usual glass cloth rather than epoxy?
Froggy, Epoxy acually refers to the resin. Not the glass. Same fiberglass with both PU and Epoxy.
I have done some glassed lightly with 4oz. (one layer) then finished it with PU and hotcoat.
Double glass job.
Can’t glass EPS with PU. Melt downer.
A little bit heavier. Easier to finish.
Barry
Polyeaster resin isn’t really as easy when you get to larger projects either. Epoxy gets to be an easier call. Like Barry said though, can’t glass EPS with polyester anyway.
Froggy, you seem to be a bit confused in this area. Like BarrySnyder said…the difference is the resin. The fiberglass itself is basically the same stuff, depending on which type, weight, and finish of glass you choose.
I think you need a refresher course in surfboard construction 101.
Ah yes. SUP love.
Lots of Home Depot paddle donkeys out this last weekend.
Yes, Home Depot now sells Wave Storm paddleboards.
(I might have to start shopping at Lowe’s in protest!)
Pretty comical.
Barry
One day last week, I pulled up to a local spot to see empty, clean, waist high waves. It was warm and sunny, too. As I suited up, here comes an SUP, paddling from around the point where I initially could not see him. He cruises over to the outside peak, which had less of a wall than the inside lineup at this spot. At waist high, it’s essentially two separate breaks. So, I opt for the inside. Longer walls and no one on it. Sure as hell, I catch less than four waves before he cruises over and “joins” me. Within a half hour, he manages to be right in my way twice, while he’s paddling back out. Then, he predictably sits well outside and proceeds to “bicycle” into every wave he can. So, I simply chose to drop in on him whenever the opportunity presented itself. Most often fading toward him and giving him stinkeye in the process.
I mean, what makes these people act so stupidly? Have they no sense? Then, they wonder why folks hate on them. They are a plague.
Sammy, I know its a drag. Unfortunately, this fad is not over yet. Remember when everybody had to have sailboards too? Now they are all sitting in storage buildings or at the Swapmeet.
I blame the cheesy sales guys in the shops.
“You don’t surf you say?”
“That’s OK. If you have ever ridden a skateboard or been on a water-slide, you’ll pick this Paddleboard thing up in minutes.”
“Just take it down to the most popular surfing beach and paddle out.”
“The surfers will all welcome you cuz it’s just like surfing.”
If you never have surfed, you have no idea about the rotation or surf etiquette.
I think the lifeguards should issue permits after proper testing of their skills.
This would eliminate most if not all.
And we thought that the “Weekend Warriors” on 10’ longboards were bad.
I feel ya Sammy.
I wish we could all band together as surfers and take this on.
After all, we are the majority.
I have a NO PADDLEBOARD sticker on my van.
Proudly.
Barry
I definitely want one. I have a lake entrance less than 10 minutes north, and a river less than 10 minutes south. If I used it whenever the waves were crap, or onshore etc, I’d increase my paddle fitness by a lot I reckon. I can’t for the life of me see the attraction of surfing them, but that’s just me.
