Nagging Kitey Thread Pt3

by **kitesurfer** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:43 pm

Ahh the joys of nagging yourself.

Is the new board ready yet Kitey?
Yes it's all done and here it is ready for collection.

6ft8 x 19 1/2 x 2 1/2. Fat boy flier with lots of volume left in the rails.

KS

by **pault** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:54 pm

Now that is a gorgeous looking board! I recognise the design :wink:

Love the paint and the finish, a very nice board indeed!!

by **joem** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 5:58 pm

thats a niece board

by **Sillysausage** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:31 pm

delish looking board again! but...you robbed my fins!

by **Real Pol** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:38 pm

Get that bloody grass cut!

by **surferdude_scarborough** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:48 pm

does look another good board. truth is in the surfin. let us know kitey

by **RJD** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:49 pm

Kitey IMO you seem to be geting better and better at the finished artilce, thats a stunner, if 4 ft to short..

by **jethrodog** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:54 pm

Looking sweet Kitey.

by **northswell** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 8:59 pm

KS i'm a little bit intrigued at the angle of the fins. I know the general consensus is to get them to point at the nose, it just looks a little severe on this board (might just be the picks)

Have you started to experiment with fins yet.

In your work surely there has to be an oportunity to check the flow etc. I'm intrigued by the quad srt up o n the stretch, again a generalisation is that the rear split the " the surface area of the rear fin of a thruster set up" creating more drive blah de blah. what would interesting is if you could take the technology further, just off on one here but if the front fins in a quad were more flexible and were able to divert the flow of water to the back fins that were harder would that not create a better potential for quicker harder turns??

by **northswell** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:04 pm

Infact forget that it would have to be the opposite way round i think? more flex at the rear.

by **Phil** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:57 pm

nice board now all you need to do is learn to surf :lol:

by **kitesurfer** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:16 am

northswell wrote:KS i'm a little bit intrigued at the angle of the fins. I know the general consensus is to get them to point at the nose, it just looks a little severe on this board (might just be the picks)

It is just the pics as the fins point to their side of the stringer at the nose.

KS

by **Driftingalong** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 5:08 pm

Very Nice! :thumbs:

by **Wisemans** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 6:46 pm

Real Pol wrote:Get that bloody grass cut!

haha

by **Bewilderbeast** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:11 am

Looks sweet mate! :thumbs:

Is that your last Clarkie blank?

by **kitesurfer** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:36 am

Bewilderbeast wrote:Looks sweet mate!

Is that your last Clarkie blank?

Nope my last clark blank is still safely in the shaping shack, awaiting a spray job.

COME ON PAULT WHERE'S MY DESIGN!

*taps fingers impatiently and ponders the merits of a nagging pault thread*

Also may have managed to lay my grubby little mits on another clark blank!
:dj: