etmo,
that’s a cool looking board, but i’m not in a place where i can watch any vid!
i live at the last power pole on our road and on the best days, standing in a puddle, facing south, on tip toes, and wearing a tinfoil suit with a copper tie,
i might, just MIGHT, get the whooping connection speed of half modem…(28kbps).
it’s no wonder it takes so long to search the photos section!
thanks for the link. wish i could see more of that board.
-jar
yup poser516, i cheat too!
6’4" round pin simon anderson tri with a single concave…
just not the same feel with 5 rubberized toes off the nose and my ass sticking out,
but i can’t help but be impressed by the number of small longboard options i’m seeing here now.
i may not get 10 for long, but if the glide is right so might the ride be.
-jar
nice resin job and outline stingray.
looks like something i’ve seen on the advertise page here at sway’s.
(is that your board at the bottom of this page?)
didn’t get much time to search the photos (see last post)
and it has to do with where i live.
start in the bay… drive north 3 or so hours along the coast.
look for that rumored class wave with the surly locals,
drive a few miles past it, and take ‘dramamine drive’ inland about 20 miles (=1hr+)
it’s called ‘boonville’ for a reason!
-jar
yup, i’m off to pick up my board this afternoon and might start another thread with photos if i can.
it’s not a short/long, but it does have 5 fin boxes to play with!
too bad it’s still going to be green when i first get to Costa Rica.
i hope i get the chance to do a ‘test’ on the fin options while i’m there.
-jar
“my hands are shaking and we haven’t even started it yet”
Bob Dylan
This is a 6’6" x 18 1/4" nose 22 wide and the tail is close to 17"
Its really flat, has a mild displacement hull, and has a Greenough 4 C fin. The board rides great at the bottome of the wave. When I first made it last summer the waves were tiny for a month and I rode it in below knee high waves. I had a blast on this thing. Its not much fun over shoulder high, but if you can plant your back foot over the fin it actually pivits and you can bottom turn and do a little snapper.
Although the nose has a little concave, I have rarely tride rideing the tip. I have been content so far with the glide, just standing a bit up from the middle of the board and letting the hull manage the speed for me.
This board is a total contrast from rideing quads because it derives its speed so low in the wave.
I’m trying to upload a pic of the rocker profile but heres the deck.
hey lavarat,
do you happen to have a link to better/birreg photos of this board?
and if you don’t mind me asking, what’s your heaght/weight when you’re cruzing the nose on the 7’6"mini log?
have you tried any of those winged/star fins to hold dow the tail?
-jar
These are my 6’8"-7’4" funboards.The middle two you can run around on.The place I
surf has too much power for a full on min log most days.
The other picture is of a Walden Magic Compact disc that I saw when I was
looking for wet suit info online.The line they had about you can even nose ride on it
made me think of this thread.I’m 6’2" &190lb and the best nose rider I
have ever ridden is a Bert Burger style EPS-balsa Compsand.
Have fun
Ian
Hi Jar
No nose pics, but this is fun too on the 5’5".
Sometimes cheater 5’s get boring when there is no tube.
There are times we get a bit bigger waves in Holland.
Have a lot of fun on your new board.
Soul
the best nose rider I have ever ridden is a Bert Burger style EPS-balsa Compsand.
I agree, my best nose rides were on a super flexy 9’ Bert Board. Recently I’ve be playing around with a board that Benny1 gave me loads of guidance on. My first one went okay, but the second one which incorporated a blending of Bert’s and Benny’s ideas has the potential of being magic.
soulnpower’s boards and ride reports stoke me out
pics proof positive
i appreciate all the feed back i’m getting from you folks…
has the old brain pan sizzling. please don’t lock this any time soon!
now, i’m about to take off for some fun in the sun and won’t be able to respond for awhile,
but i’m working on posting the pics of my new board on another thread.
i know how you all are about pics and reviews, so while i’m in Costa Rica i will try my best to take photos of the fin configurations and post my ‘reviews’ when i get back. wish me luck on the whole ‘post a pic’ thing… my computer is kind of slow out here (and i’m not much better).
-jar
Hope you get some good sun, jar, you probably need it about now.
I was a proud member of the Anderson Valley Fire Department for a year, back in '93 or '94. They got a new Chief at that point & he decided to augment the volunteers with some paid guys - but couldn’t afford benefits etc. so could only hire part-time. He ended up with 21 of us, 7 different 24 hour shifts of 3 guys at a time. If you’ve ever been in the bunkhouse/trailer behind the station, I did the picture framing around the county map on the wall and I also built the wall & did the drywall & trim on the west side of the engine bay to make a little storage room. I worked Fridays which was cool and Saturday at 8 am I would head out the Navarro to the mouth or up to Big River or down to that point of surlys you mentioned. Good times. One of these days we’ll get together over a horn of zeese and I’ll tell you a story about a brightlighter DEA guy who drove off the road at 5 am after partying all night in Boont. We got a call to go rescue his ass but the army showed up in choppers & even kept us away…
So yeah, dear readers, find Booneville on Google maps and check it out. So remote it has its own language. Seriously - its a 100+ year old mix of english, dutch, russian, and local indian dialects. But if you can stand the twistys, there’s good surf and a lot of solitude to be found up that way.
Ben has lived more lives than 10 of us. Sheesh. I think he’s a Highlander.
While you’re there check out Anderson Valley Brewery…home of one of the best Oatmeal Stouts! That will add some more curve to the already curvey 128.
why benny, it’s still a small world outside this small town! i’ld never have guessed!
it would be great to do some balh hornin’ and story swapping with you sometime.
remind me to tell you about this past new years when a couple of us more adventerous manly types dressed in drag for a musicial skit and ended up at
the ole’bucket’o’blood. you should have seen the faces of them speed tweakin’ tree thieves!
it took real effort to keep the woman folk from starting a fight with them to protect us men!
(i had to disrtact those girls by showing some fishnet covered legs… damn cold!)
i know your work and have even seen a couple of movies in the FD wreck room too.
so now you’re a highpockety brightlighten flatlander eh?
(i won’t tell)
and the point of those surly locals is quite a surf arena, isn’t it?
helps if they like you.
ever hear of bear wallow? i’ve been here 4 years now turning it into frogwood lodge (google that).
and speaking of solitude, this time last year those damn madrones started looking mighty sexy.
don’t think i can handle another winter of that… fear of splinters,
that’s why i’m off to warmer climes for a couple of months.
(36hrs and packing until i’m out of here)
and speaking of my trip, i’ve been trying to post pics of my new McPhee board and keep getting a
“can not find page” message when i try to post. damn frustrating.
the pics are sized correctly, and i followed the directions in ‘help’, but it hasn’t helped at all.
i want to do the fin/photo/review thing and nothing seems to work.
even posted in ‘bugs’ but haven’t heard a thing yet.
any help would be appreciated.
hope to hear from you soon, before i leave, otherwise no pics until i’m back from some pura vida.
peace, love and mud flaps…
-jar
anyone get it? the photo of the bear with antlers?
bear+ deer=beer.
just a little taste of local humor.
-jar
Bal hornin’ jar - not exactly high pockety but workin on it. At least down here, the ol’ burlap is less splintery. Its been a while since I had to harp the boont so forgive me if I go back to brightlightling.
Friends of friends were the ones who built Sheep Dung and now The Other Place. I know where the infamous Bear Wallow was but it was the hoods in the woods school when I was around. I’ve taken the family camping at Barney Woods - still about the quietest public redwood grove around. And we’ve got a friend who lives on some land in Albion who we go see occasionally…it would be great to stop by & say hello next time you’re back in town.
I’ve had good luck with photos that I put up into my (free) Imageshack.com page. That site stores them for you (bigger sizes too) and even generates the html you need to cut & paste a link into a post here… but if you don’t get to it before your trip, believe me, we’ll understand.
Hey Soul!
Was that this last sunday?
Hi Dave,
Wish it was that warm, no it was the end of last summer,
Are you still paddling around or just in the shaping bay.
Greeets from Soul
Some Stepchildren I found on http://shop.yumetenpo.jp/…pchild88/index.shtml 8’8" X 22 X 2 5/8
I might sound a bit gay but that Mauve stepchild is gorgeous
