Surfingboard of all Surfingboards

I thought to post information about this project on this main discussion as to give a bit of history about this surfboard. This project was inspired by a guy here on Maui that is a paddleboarder and big wave rider. He approached a local shaper with the idea to build a surfboard that could be paddled long distances and catch huge open ocean swells and ride like a modern gun. After months of planning and trial and error drafting, the plans were finally complete! Construction was easier than anticipated with the plans laid out for us, and three craftsmen working together correcting each others mistakes. Please see the attached file for specs. Traditional olo and modern rail and bottom contours were all considered with the planning of this surfboard. The guy here on Maui is selling this board because he has received numerous citations for unsafe transportation of an oversized load. The length of the board is 37’3" and he drives a Mini Cooper, so you could probably imagine what it looks like strapped to the racks.

http://swaylocks.com/classifieds/page.cgi?g=Detailed/342.html&d=1

Yo, Lingcod, you really need to post this over at Surfermag.com

That’s where the big boards are really discussed… ha ha…

Ah ha - I love this… the real deal, already ready already, and ridden. Half way down the ocean… I won’t even bother going there. I would love to see footage/pictures of it being ridden.

Lingcod,

Just wondering what the toe-in measurements are for that quad setup?

Beautiful template on that board. Thanks for sharing.

Enjoy,

Mike

Here we go again.

I measured the picture and it appears to be a width of

one Imperial Jackboot… no more, no less…

Say, what day is it over the international dateline anyway?

Don’t you just love April???

Sr Pato

Flush the loo again,an iconoclast has floated back up.

My Good friend JC sent me this:

The Holiday

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In Florida, an atheist became incensed over the preparation for

Easter and Passover holidays and decided to contact the local

ACLU about the discrimination inflicted on atheists by the

constant celebrations afforded to Christians and Jews with all

their holidays while the atheists had no holiday to celebrate.

The ACLU jumped on the opportunity to once again pick up the

cause of the godless and assigned their sharpest attorneys to

the case. The case was brought before a wise judge who after

listening to the long, passionate presentation of the ACLU

lawyers, promptly banged his gavel and declared,

“Case dismissed!”

The lead ACLU lawyer immediately stood and objected to the

ruling and said, "Your honor, how can you possibly dismiss this

case? Surely the Christians have Christmas, Easter, and many

other observances. And the Jews–why in addition to Passover

they have Yom Kippur and Hanukkah… and yet my client and all

other atheists have no such holiday!"

The judge leaned forward in his chair and simply said,

"Obviously your client is too confused to know about, or for

that matter, even celebrate the atheists’ holiday!"

The ACLU lawyer pompously said, "We are aware of no such holiday

for atheists, just when might that be, your honor?"

The judge said, "Well it comes every year on exactly the same

date - April 1st!"

The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”

Psalm 14:1, Psalm 53:1

Buddha, buddha, buddha. Don’t you think the preaching bit belongs somewhere else? I’m just an april fool who thinks every day is a holiday. Don’t comment, I’m not worth it.

I measured it too- the board is about 10.5 times as long as it is wide. If the length is 37’3" that would make the board about 42" wide, give or take a few… thats 3.5 feet… pretty wide. I want to see some pictures. -Carl

Buddha, Buddha, Buddha, that was pretty funny.I wish could remember jokes. Mike

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I measured it too- the board is about 10.5 times as long as it is wide. If the length is 37’3" that would make the board about 42" wide, give or take a few… thats 3.5 feet… pretty wide. I want to see some pictures. -Carl

42" wide !!! Requires some wide shoulders to paddle … LOL

two people , lying side by side … “synchronised paddling” …the new “extreme games” sport for this years “x games” [yawn] at huntington.

Bring on the dancing bears , and the bearded ladies . Don’t forget the dancing midgets and disco ball from the shaping bay , either. [Hope ‘pouchman’ stays home though !]

Seen at Surfermag.com . . . .

Aloha, Roy!

I had posted the “surfing board of surfingboards” post. The vessel has

no name but your surfboard inspired the post title. I can assure you

the surfbaord is complete. I resized the image to fit the screen

without considering preserving the aspect ratio, so yes, the surfboard

appears to be extrememly wide in the specs picture. In person the

surfboard looks like a spear.

Truth be told, this surfboard needs a long sloping wave face due to

the minimal nose rocker for such length. We built this with big waves

in mind and too much rocker we felt would compromise performance with

both paddleing and riding. We are talking about 50-70 foot faces and

the surfboard catches waves well before they are beginning to break,

allowing the rider ample time to choose his line and shoot for it!

The largest swell yet far was just over 30 feet face and the board

really starts to shine the larger the wave is. Lots of rail line and

not much curve and a smaller wave, the board is difficult to maneover

and has a mind of it’s own. Once over 20 feet, the board loosens up

and allows the rider more control off the tail which is what we aimed

for.

Well, if you are in the Islands (Maui) you are welcome to come take a

look and try the surfboard for yourself. The gentleman we commissioned

the board for received the labor money back and we ate the cost for

materials.

Mahalo,

Lin

Also seen at surfermag.com. . . . the lack of logic is painful to behold

Aloha Lin,

Thankyou for your message.

It’s interesesting and heartening to hear of yor big board. The frontiers of big wave paddle in surfing, and unbroken swell surfing are only beginning to be explored. Judging by the dimensions of your board and what you are telling me about it, you must have built the most advanced big unbroken swell catching board around!

It would be really nice to see some video of the board in

action.

Presently I am repairing my seventeen footer, which is the largest board I have built so far. Our boards are taking a slightly different tack from yours, in that I am using more rocker (and more width). This means that the boards are very maneuverable, a quality which we decided was worth sacrificing some wave catching ability for. I have been testing our boards at regular beachbreaks, and the biggest waves I have used the 17 foot Star Board in would be around 18 feet (that’s Imperial feet not Hawaiian) I surf the board in beachbreak conditions where hollow sections and flatter sections are all mixed up, and I must say that it does a fantastic job and gets some very long rides, often on unbroken sections. The Star board is also perfectly functional riding hollow little shorebreaks,and taking off late.

I was talkng to Tom Wegener recently. His 16 footers are built using a Philosophy similar to that which created your surfingboard of surfingboards, and his boards are thus on the flatter rocker side of the spectrum.

Some interesting goals for big board riding which I often think about are:

1) Aiming for the longest ride (In time and distance, measured via gps)

2) Aiming for the biggest paddle in wave ( One of the great things about paddle in big boards as opposed to tow in shortboards is that waves can be ridden unbroken and more gently sloping, allowing the game to be safer than tow in and allowing older gentlemen and regular surfers to take up the big wave challenge).

3) High speed surfing. It will be very interesting to discover how fast very long boards can go compared to shorter boards.

4) Big board surfing video. Big surfboard riding is very nice to watch.

Mahalo,

Roy

PS I am always interested to hear of developments!

Why then did Lincod say ‘April fool’ on his post? I await photographs.

“April Fools” is apparently something that an eight year old can understand, but some adult-aged people can’t.

IT IS A JOKE. How hard is that to figure out?

I was taught that one should not laugh at one’s own jokes.

Lincod is a prophet or a prankster?