the more length the more foam and more rail obviously. way less foam all around on his 6’8 than on my 6’10. i love the 6’10 but he made it for someone who was getting into his first hull and the guy ordering it kept asking mr J to make it an extreme machine even though he had never slid one on a wave - so K made it fuller and less bladed than he would if he were making it for himself, but still bladed it a bit. the 6’10 is more of a starter i’m told but i’ve heard Steve (who i bought it from) say that it’s less user friendly than his 7’ Liddle. Klaus’ 6’8 feels less voluminous, lighter, more maneuverable, and smaller and he wouldn’t sell it to me, i asked. i’d love to see the templates for a series of boards in 2" variation laid one on top of the other just to see the difference. 6’2 is the default for me right now assuming the crest is discernible from the trough, Klaus is betting the new 6’8 will change all of that and it might, but damn if Siglo doesn’t run full on a great wave
thinking of riding my fish this weekend just to change up - getting some dirty barrels at a beach break, going left, and avoiding the insane mob so many of us loathe sounds good… been 6 months on a hull or a log and i’m ready to fuckerize some sandy sucky pits after all of this flat gutless flub milking over the past week… that last south swell had me surfed out, come back waves!
the more length the more foam and more rail obviously. way less foam all around on his 6’8 than on my 6’10. i love the 6’10 but he made it for someone who was getting into his first hull and the guy ordering it kept asking mr J to make it an extreme machine even though he had never slid one on a wave - so K made it fuller and less bladed than he would if he were making it for himself, but still bladed it a bit. the 6’10 is more of a starter i’m told but i’ve heard Steve (who i bought it from) say that it’s less user friendly than his 7’ Liddle.
"The yellow Klaus was my board. I had already owned 2 Liddles and had surfed more waves on a “hull” than you have at this point in your kook obsession. You ignorant fuck. Watch your ass when we meet. "
Tim Elsner is POINTDOG? …LOL! what was yours is now mine
tell ya what, as a “tribe” of hull riders, we need to come together and send some positive vibes, thoughts and support to fellow huller who i’m sure could use it right now. no need to mention name, just be positive toward one another for the day…
tell ya what, as a “tribe” of hull riders, we need to come together and send some positive vibes, thoughts and support to fellow huller who i’m sure could use it right now. no need to mention name, just be positive toward one another for the day…
Too late…Someone put this thread out of it’s misery.
tell ya what, as a “tribe” of hull riders, we need to come together and send some positive vibes, thoughts and support to fellow huller who i’m sure could use it right now. no need to mention name, just be positive toward one another for the day…
Too late…Someone put this thread out of it’s misery.
i think KJ’s concern was with removing too much foam when he made that board. it might affect the paddle and float of a 190LB man on a 6’10 if it was made as thin as a chip. speaking as a ‘beginner’ one should consider that i’m sometimes wrong and that may be the case here. i have been wrong before. i will be wrong again and i gladly suffer my own healthy portion of foolishness on land in the 7 seas. i don’t consider myself an expert on any shaper’s design reasoning and when i order a board i listen to and accept the advice being offered - it’s what i don’t know that i’m paying him for and it will make all the difference in the water over the next year to come - but again - i could be wrong
…on the other hand Klaus is never off when he custom shapes a board for an individual and i wonder why it’s initial owner parted with this particular 6’10, but i’m glad he did - i like it
“I would not join any club that would have someone like me for a member.” - Groucho Marx
i’m pretty sure they had fun nailing dead white women and children to trees and cutting soldiers wide open tip to toe prior to the war dance era, before facing starvation, slavery, disease, and their inevitable extermination and genocide due to the westerner’s cultural ignorance which still clearly exists in pockets of the east and west today - as previously stated, i could be wrong