Lung Infection

Mike B., Reid G., and Todd G.'s fresh hotcoats above...Murray's deck below:

Board progress is slow this week due to a kinda hefty lung infection...back in action in a few days hopefully.

Quote of the Day

"It looked like a fucking trashcan that would slice your legs off."

-J.T. on Vampire hull

ID

Hulls - resin hole^

PC boards - new lam^

Murray x2

A whole lot of art in one place...Morgan's photos, showing the detail of Kent's one by one leaf action on Murray; I'm pretty f*ing stoked to be a part of it!

RED

People seem to really like the color blue lately, which is cool, but now my whole glass shop looks like an old New Order song.

And theres even one more blue board inside the shop.

Thats the 5'5 sim for sale, Todd G.'s bali-bound hull, Reid's WRP, and Tucker's SDq (pictured below as well)

Old Guys Hate Me

Recent (actually...not really so recent, just redundant) online spats have turned physical. 

Head old-guy blogger KP, caught in the act.

N1ck's N3wB

Here is nick's 5'5 sim all finished up (5'5 x 23 x 3):

More curve in the last 2 ft of the board than most of the other simmons type discs; because i like it better that way...and a velo-y tail as requested by Nick...it really came together nicely.

A small review/writeup of the first two sessions on the board are at the bottom of this Surfermag.com thread:  

LINK MEEEEE

Also have a blue 5'5 of this same shape for sale at the moment, with lokboxes and glass keels instead of glassons; $550, brand spankin' new...email me at ryan@pointconceptsurf.com for info!

Local Art: Kent Keystone

Kent came out to the shop yesterday and artsied up Murray for me...i'm beyond stoked.

A note on triplanes

Just a quick note for now; i wanted to post up a tiny bit on the history of the triplane bottom...Greenough (go figure) developed and used it as a bottom shape on the kneeboard design that was between Velo, and the Edge Board.

George was looking for something that would go well in less than all time waves, since Velo only really turned on in great waves...The triplane bottom keeps the same rail line as a hulled out bottom, high in the nose and low in the tail.  But having it blend into an edge instead of a round curve gives you a flatter planing area in the middle of the board allowing it to skate (i hesitate to use that word though) a little more and use the less than perfect parts of the wave to your advantage.

I guess its a pretty natural (if you see greenough as the foundation) progression from hulls (velo derivatives) to triplanes, to...whatever's next (edge bottoms?).  we're all looking for the same hull feeling in a different wave situation...

So i guess all I'm saying is that inevitably we're all going to be filming dolphins and riding mats.

Meet Murray

Okay...heres a mindfuck that I finally got to put into foam after a few weeks of brainstorming.

5'10 x secret x 2 1/2" hull for beachbreaks/reefs...essentially.  the basics are; pulled in nose (16.5"), hip on the back foot, a bit flatter deck but still domed, foiled down rails with a lot of bite in the back end.

The bottom is a hull to triplane that fades off at the hip/fins, a single concave starts just ahead of the fins and accelerates out the tail; providing a good squirt off of the back foot for quick direction changes.  What i'm trying to accomplish is an accelerated tail rocker when you want it, and a hull rail line with release and pivot off of the tail plus an easy entry.

The fins are going to be tall flex fins, like chubby L-flex fins, with a tiny bit more base...or kinda stretched out MR style twins.  

I named him Murray.