Surfing Waves

Just a few waves on the old 11'9" and a few glimpses of the endless OLO sanding summer. Go to "movie theatre" and click Sunshine Day to check it out

BTW all our new video clips are free for a while. . . .we were getting so many requests for the old ones that I was spending nearly all day emailing them to people. . . hence the buy on CD option. Also they are higher resolution that way.

Just for you Phil, I am pointing out that during the first ride in this clip a speed of well over 20 mph is reached. This is a conservative estimate, but keep in mind that an Olympic sprinter can go well over 20 mph, and that 20 mph on a bicycle is relatively slow. I suggest that if you want to enter the game of discussing surfing speed, that you would do well to first discard all your anger and personal animosity and start to work things out diligently, as a student with an open mind (as I try to do). This might have surprising and enlightening results!

You say that I am just a troll who only posts to wind people up. You are mistaken

so was there any other point to that last post other than to wind phil up?

proably not but ive given up argueing with him have much better things to do with my time

Roy, on your website theres a page with all he videos on and one of the little tumbnails is of a fin with coloured flowers in it, how did you get them there?

surferdude_scarborough wrote:

You say that I am just a troll who only posts to wind people up. You are mistaken

so was there any other point to that last post other than to wind phil up?

That comes into the "Ask a stupid question get a stupid answer category"

Phil gave you a stupid answer already.

babyboarder89 wrote:Roy, on your website theres a page with all he videos on and one of the little tumbnails is of a fin with coloured flowers in it, how did you get them there?

That effect is achieved using cloth in the middle of the fin panel and is a fairly well known technique. Just about any cloth you like can be used: cotton, polyester, silk, or rayon. The cloth must be washed in warm soapy water to get rid of any finishing compounds which might stop resin from penetrating. Also the cloth shouldn't be painted . . often Hawaiian prints and the like have some paint in the pattern, (usually white) and resin won't penetrate this.
If you lay up your own fibreglass fin panels then just include the cloth in the middle of the panel. I don't usually work with fibreglass and don't lay up glass panels myself so I ordered the panel from Chris Carr of Mount Maunganui. The fin you are looking at is really massive and is 18mm thick, so it is made of two standard 9mm clear panels epoxied together with the cloth sandwiched in between. Foiling a 13 inch deep 18mm thick glass fin is a major mission but the result is pretty and it is incredibly strong. Usually our fins are laminated timber (Otherwise known as marine plywood)


Here's the rather fuzzy picture of the partially foiled panel complete with pencil marks:

so its a piece of materil inside a fibreglass sandwhich?

You got it, it's a flower and fibreglass sandwich!

i could use some 50 second rides right now...

Me too. . .stuck with a sore throat and miles of board work to do.