http://sfbay.craigslist.org/scz/spo/3424019379.html
anyone here one of the "Tens of thousands of the internial carbon suspension boards have been sold " buyers? Pretty serious looking fins on those babies. Hurry to look 'cause they’re gonna get snapped up for Christmas.
I don’t think you have to worry about these boards getting snapped up any time soon. This ad has been running in the local Craigslist for at least the last 6 months.
I would like to know the story on those finboxes, though.
I’m thinkin’ Roy’s evil twin lives a quiet life in the Carlsbad umderground.
13K - wow, pricey
Is there a trans galactic craig’s list?
I am sure there would be interest
in a wider field of exposure.
To licence this tech in an alternative
planetary atmosphere could actually
be more appropriate.The limits
of earths Hydrosphere could be
the reason these magnificent
samples are not being snapped up.
Of course kelp and sea grass
could foil the efficiency of the foils.
…ambrose …
The future is here,
and cheap at that price.
my next spare $13,000
I know what I want.
cheaper than a flight to ‘SPACE’
with that branson guy.
I have one in my living room. I'l go get it.
It's a 6'6" x 18. Kinda small, my armpits are 2" above sea level when I"m sitting on it.
Fin mount screws are in front of the fin, at around 45 degree angle into the finbase.
Deck rails are extremely weak. I'm glassing them someday.
Vent never a problem, I used bike grease on the threads.
Very stiff riding. Little projection. Good glide. More than extremely fragile, with weak spots than can occur anywhere. I guess the lamination was done by a blind person....or squirted by an epileptic.
Lightest board out of the 200 I've owned.
Basically worthless as a surfboard for me, kinda big for a kiteboard, and too squirrelly.
Good for a paddle board to stay in shape.
There was a local shop that carried a few of them but I haven't seen one in awhile. If I'm not mistaken, they folded?
I believe Kendall was involved somehow in the Hydro-Epic project. He posted several times about the process. If the search function works, you might try it - using Kendall/Hydro-Epic, etc. PM him directly?
If the production indeed shut down and was as expensive as I suspect, those boards might be a deal.
EDIT: Website still up:
http://www.hydroepic.com/index.php
And a thread with Kendall's comments:
What a poor choice of finbox for a fin with that much loading area.
VanHelsing.
A Sways inovation?? Figures. And you guys are knockin’ it??
Tens of thousands of the internial carbon suspension boards have been
sold using this technology under license. **These boards represent the
highest state of the technology surfboard ever built and are unique in
the world.
**
guess anyone clueless enough to actually buy one of these modern art coffee tables probably would believe such hyperbolic bullshit…
aaahhh, the internet…all right there…the good, the bad, the ugly…and the friggin hilarious…
So apparently they had an aluminum honeycomb core?
Found this pic on the internet, but it doesn’t look like honeycomb…
The concept is fine… The harder part is the execution…
Look at Aviso hollow carbon boards . They seem to hold up fairly well…
Aluminum is not the best choice of skin for this . Imho…
I think the real make or break factor is in how you join the 2 halves.
Huck : The skins are probably thin honeycomb, and the fish bone reinforcements shown are the added suspension elements they speak of.
VanHelsing.