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The One

 
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Nels
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Joined: 13 Jan 2004
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:14 pm    Post subject: The One Reply with quote
I came across this in Tom Morey town...was looking into the Wave Skater after scanning a blurb in Surfer's Journal at a bookstore...realized we'd already been over it here or there...saw this...

http://www.tommorey.com/ONE!.htm

Extremely interesting to me, shades of ancient misty memories of the Newport Shoe and other shortboardmindexpansion dreams...
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PaipoJim
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:36 pm    Post subject: Re: The One Reply with quote
Nels wrote:
shades of ancient misty memories of the Newport Shoe and other shortboardmindexpansion dreams...


It won't be news to Rabbit Kekai either. He was a master at shaping and riding *short* skegless Hot Curls before WWII.
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Nels
Dolphin Glider


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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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It won't be news to Rabbit Kekai either. He was a master at shaping and riding *short* skegless Hot Curls before WWII


ah but with knowledge and materials from 50 years in the future...funny... but he would have known right what to do with them way back then if he could have gotten his hands on them...

my mother who surfed in Hawaii for a few years in the early 1930s knew of the foam boards but upon her one and only return to the islands in 1971 expressed a bit of mystification about why nobody had figured out something better than wax for traction on modern boards given that at that point men were walking on the moon...now 35 years later we still use wax for traction and the big "improvement" is some clay base in it...and no man has walked on the moon for over 3 decades.

Perhaps it all means something...
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dksnap



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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 11:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Long time no post... Decided to resurrect this old thread, as I have been riding my 4'6" Tom Morey ONE board prone/paipo-style lately. Anyone else ride one of these?

I can't compare it to a traditional paipo, as I have not ridden one (yet), although I'm in the process of making one out of plywood. But that's for another thread... Very Happy

My only point of comparison is a bodyboard, and the ONE catches waves earlier and glides more due to the increased length and floatation. Less manueverability, but more down the line speed. The board is a little too floaty and doesn't duckdive well (at least for me, at 5'2") but in small clean waves, it's been fun and has a different feel than a bodyboard. It really piques my interest in exploring other prone / kneeriding vehicles.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You might try to get one of these while they are still available. An Area 51 soft top skimboard. This one is about 41" long and 1" thin. Dives easily, but still has enough surface area to fly. I originally got it for my wife, but it's often my board of choice in the Summer when I'm at a crowded spot. I think it was about $70 US.

http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp16/Lamaroos/lodi01.jpg
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is my skim to paipo I just finished 54"x21"x.80" my black bullet cost $95 MIKE 8[/img]
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 5:29 am    Post subject: Post: subject Reply with quote
Mike,

Besides adding fins, what else did you do to transfrom the skim board into a paipo?

Bob
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 10:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Not much just put on some tiki and a clear traction pad. I was going to cut it down, but tried it just the way it was worked good except the rear keeped sliding out, so I made some small fins out of S glass an epoxi and glassed them on. This is the cheepest board I ever made and works real good. MIKE Cool
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kage
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I like your portable shaping stand. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
You can also iron your shorts on too MIKE Cool
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