hits off, adrenaline was talking to me about the use of more enviromentally friendly materials in shaping instead of your standard chemical filled materials. But, as with all things this comes at an extra cost...
The materials adrenaline suggested are Homeblown Foam Blanks, heres a paragraph about them quoted from the homeblown website:
In the UK Homeblown are making blanks out of 'less' harmful chemicals. They use MDI (methylene di-phenyl di-isocyanate) rather than TDI (toluene di-isocyanate). It's still nasty, but not as nasty as the normal blank. They claim that their cell size is the same as the best of their competitors (meaning it will not soak up extra resin that makes them heavy), they are 10% lighter and 10-25% stronger than any blank they have had the opportunity to test. MDI is more expensive than TDI, but Homeblown blanks are about the same price as their competitors, making less profit for Homeblown.
Along with that, Adrenaline is chasing up the costs of Hemp Cloth instead of your standard fibreglass cloth.
One company who makes enviromentally friendly surfboards is called motherocean but they start at around £380+ whereas your standard surfboards made of polyurethane foam, polyester resins and fibreglass cloth start around £240+ so I thought I would start a quick poll to get the rest of your viewpoints on it...would you fork out that much extra to make a difference to the enviroment? or would you stick with the standard materials?
