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bgreen

Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz
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geoffreylevens
Joined: 18 Nov 2009 Posts:
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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from the newsletter: "The use of boogie board rails and the concave on the Tuna has opened up a whole new door for the big boards. "
About 18 months ago, Dale Solomonson put bug in my ear about the possibilities with using boogie board rails on stand-up finless craft when I was talking to him about my garage hacking experiments. In my design process I emailed Tom asking him about some other issue and mentioned the idea in the email. Just sayin'...
Most likely Tom does not even remember the exchange with me but when you least expect it, Dale may be behind the scenes.  |
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bgreen

Joined: 20 Feb 2004 Posts: Location: Qld. Oz
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Geoffrey,
I'd be interested to hear more about your garage hacking.
regards
Bob |
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OG-AZN
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: Location: Norcal
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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Right on. Long live the ply paipo. It would be interesting to see a Wegener shaped plywood board. |
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geoffreylevens
Joined: 18 Nov 2009 Posts:
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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bgreen wrote: | Geoffrey,
I'd be interested to hear more about your garage hacking.
regards
Bob |
Twern't much. Made a stand up finless out of 2 layers home depot foam and one layer plywood (can't remember now, 1/4 inch?). Lammed together in crude rocker press using 2X4's and sand bags. Shaped in boogie rails and some tail concave into the foam. Painted foam w/ acrylic house paint for crude water proofing. Did not work well for me in available tiny, crap beach break but never got the chance to try it in any better surf. Now living in Arizona so ocean time is rare and so far I have just stuck to the reliable Neumatic for the rare go out |
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