and some here thought my boards were a little unusual ? …
sun damage , or a warped shaper ?
(or perhaps one of 'salvy’s descendants shaped it , eh ?)
Extreme vacuum pressure or overshaping? Kinda cool looking though!
looks like an aussie version of this thing…
Probably rides like it too…
see here…
http://s7ondemand1.scene7.com/is/image/Hammacher/72993A?wid=180
Talk about enough sponsers…
Maybe the guy should sign up with Hammacher Schlemmer while he’s at it.
Remember Doc’s USO project?
Must have been fun to glass!
Hey Ben,
You can blame it all on Greg Loehr. Those concaves are all his fault. 
Cheers,
Rio
sllings and arrows of the lesser design committed
shall not deter the truly inquisitive mind
from the path least travailed
adventures in
alternatives
leave the veteran
with tales to share with
the folks left back with the secure
trite hack kneed complacent forms that
no longer stimulate the lust for experiential
k n o w l e d g e
standing on a ledge
overlooking the abyss of truth
not everyone has the courage to leap.
this …an accident ,maybe
a divine intervention?
a close tollerance calculated experiment ?
from any perspective
a success only if tested fully in a range of conditions.
without commitment to adventures like this
there is no progress
only the status of following market trends orchestraed by
wizards behind the curtain
for some Oz has to be well removed geographicly
to be credible
progress can come from a garage in menlo park
or a garden in santa rosa
…ambrose…
turn on a light bulb
or bite into a nectarine
once upon a time there was a guy named Hydro
one of his boards
was last seen screwed
to a wall outside
cathys surfshop at kinipopo
he did concaves like this to ride cannons
a blow to the head from behind by a drunk
beligerant ended his life run with a coma for a number of years
Hydro lives…he didn’t have a laminate fixation
I blew up the image, and it appears to have a real wooden stringer. Also, the Gotcha, The Search, and Rip Curl decals look genuine. There is no evident distortion of the background, so I conclude that it probably isn’t some stupid Photoshop trick (unless someone enjoys an embarassing excess of available time). I’m sorry to say that my guess is that it is exactly what it appears to be, a (more-or-less standard) thruster with the core somehow sucked or melted out. Definitely weird…
-Samaim
yea… but look at the fins… nobody did that intentionally.
I’ve seen that happen to old poly boards that were kept in an attic in Florida. some water was locked in, it degrades the foam properties a bit, it equilibrizes and steams like a sauna, heat and pressure cycles must break it down. I’ve not seen it happen to newer boards, but I had a nomad salvaged from an attic that looked just like this. Not very surfable.
I said a SLIGHT double.
probably left in the car the whole summer…
I know there was some thread about this freaky board here already but I thought I post it again as I saw it “live” hanging in a pub the other day and it is just too strange!
Anyone rode any of these things?
And how about that one?
Yah, what I really want to know is how the nose is hovering above the ground like that… that could be useful.
\r
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yea… but look at the fins… nobody did that intentionally.
I figure the fins skewed as the foam “went away” and the glass deformed. That and the angle of the shot seemed adequate to account for their appearance, though this is all speculation and I could easily be all wet with no waves…
-Samiam
Looks like somebody tried to poly over eps…
riding it would reveal…?
…“the search” is over ?
or
it’s just begun ?
…Personally , I’d like to see a profile view of this board …the deck [wonder how warped THAT is ?] and the rocker.
I’d ride it …
as
a
SINGLE fin ! [good luck getting the fin …‘perpendicular’ …though ?!]
I was just thinking …
'gotcha" , “rip curl” , ‘the search’ stickers on this board …
…could this have been an old board of Brock Little's , I wonder ??
As was mentioned previously …
…the USO board of "Doc Lausch"s … for a comparison [‘uso’ stands for ‘unidentified surfing object’]
And , lest we forget …Gregg Webber , in Australia , also at one stage experimented with finless , DEEEEP concave boards, too [ He DID work at “Hot Buttered Surfboards” once , after all !]
cheers !
ben
I was recently painting a house in Kapaa and I saw a knee board next to the garage. I went to check it out and the deck looked like that Rip Curl board. I thought that the 15 years of sitting in direct sunlight caused the phenomena. My guess is that blue pigment in the Rip Curl board sped up the process.
msm
The first time I saw this board it was on the kneeboarding site and the poster was trying to
make a point about foam from other sources other than clark. The board was supossedly sitting
under his house when this happened??? Maybe a big spyder thought it was a big cockroach?
Hannya