Hi all, I have for some time now contemplated making a surfboard that will fit in the boot ( trunk for you US folk ) of my car. The focus is to have a surf in the morning, drive to work and park the car on the street without the board getting ripped off, eg not visable from outside the car. Taking the board home first or taking it into work is not really an option. So my thoughts are either to make a removable nose, taking 2’ from the nose and pining it, or perhaps to take 2’ off the tail and using a rubber pins so that the tail can flex. In this way I can get the board into the car boot/ trunk in two pieces. Has anyone done this before? I have 2 old boards that I intend to use as prototypes but am hesitant to cut them as I am coming up with new ideas all the time. Thanks Andy
http://www.bisect.com/ have you seen this already?
Why dont you just buy a different car for each board you have.
Andy, A friend of mine who is a freak, ( And thats the pot calling the kettle black!) has made several such boards, and travelled through Mexico and Peru on his motorbike with one in a bodyboard bag on his back!!! Unfortunately I cant tell you how to get in touch with him, as he’s an itinerant hippy, but what I know of the production method involves SAWING BRAND NEW BOARDS IN HALF!!! A plastic slotted fixture was then glassed into the cross-section of the board. Angus Honey was his name and the place was Lorne, in Victoria australia. Anyway, I do know that he rode them successfully, and that there has minimal sacrifice in performance, though I reckon you are in for an expensive trip with prototypes!!! The Pope Bisect from the sixties is of course the precedent. http://www.speedneedle.com.au
Lets not forget the affects of leaving a board sitting inside your car all day long. Go self employed, then leave your entire quiver right in your “board room”.
1 measure trunk 2 cut masonite template square , test by inserting in trunk …3 shape “template to estheticly pleaseng shape 4 make board to fit this limit 5 surf it until you make it go if you cant get sombody who can ride it and copy what they do make a better board …by the 5th one they’ll be gettin hot soon you will be called the in the trunk guys and overthrow the reigning local theocracy… if you dont wanna do it yourself send the measurements to me or trancendental morey or stanly P. or any body their ruminations on the topic will be inspired … but that cut in half stuff has a flaw …cutting it in half interupts the flex abig whoppa gooushe will bend- break the kit Besides a new in the trunk board sounds cool just dont get an MGB… that trunk is small…63 plymouth fury now thats a trunk probobly a5’6” albacore with metal flake single fin would blow their sunglasses off their noses …,design advancement starts with a criterion shift this is a good as any criterion last week I finished a 4’6" reshape called LAZERUS for an 8 year old I saw his 19 year old brother riding it last night and it was planing ok he was just overturningit an blowing the glide factor I knew he was gonna ride it when he asked me to make it for the little brother I told the big brother I would make him one in a coupl’a weeks from now ambrose on the brain storm hope this helps encourage you to a higher hight is this designy
If you don’t have a big-assed American car you ought to measure up that boot/trunk…figure out what you want to surf on and make sure you don’t need a “tri-sect”. As others wrote about leaving a board in a car all day, heat can potentially be brutal. You might also want to consider just some specific work-day surf equipment that will certainly fit: paipo, bellyboard, a you-know-what.