Whayves

Round and round we go

For my 450th post, I give you some shots of a very fine surfer on some very fine waves.

Mr.Steve Hadley, getting his green-room on with the Asymmetrichull:

This time w.out the Asym:

Fancy!

Brandon D. Enters the Blogosphere

photo: B.D.

Check out my friend Brand Dipierri's new photo/surf blog.  LOTS of gems in there that are kindof driving me nuts 'cause i missed those days...Brandon scores lots of solo sessions and goes well out of his way to find some really great waves.

He also is in charge of all of my screen printing, lams for boards, shirts, art projects, he' the man!  check it out!

http://bdipierri.blogspot.com/

Some Weekend 'Nugs

Me letting asymmetrichull take me where it may:

photos: Brandon Dipierri

Travers Adler aboard Pinky, gliding down the point a little bit:

Brandon Dipierri on a 6'3 hull/fish (never been able to come up with a good name for them!)...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

there are no words for these framegrabs of Tyler Warren on my flex-spoon (some build pics here).  I'm greatful, antsy, hysterical and humbled:

Check the blog for more about the movie that I'm sh*tting myself to have a board (or two?!?!) in.

All images copyright J.Smart Films '09

Count Duckula, Unveiled

6'8" x 22 3/4" x 2 1/4" bottom halfer hull named Count Duckula.  This design also by K.Ablers, nearly 3 hour shaping execution by me...this is officially, and by far the most difficult and challenging board I have ever shaped.  Nearly flat deck, full hull bottom, the rails are that of a flex spoon; that's to say pretty round on bottom (not the full bladed rails on boards like the hullibut), and the top half is flattened off.

The tail will be a glass flex panel, and is templated off the Gull, wider, trash-can style.  

I will do my best to post more detailed shots of the shape, but its likely that photos may never convey exactly what is going on here, as with most of the shapes I do...best viewed in person, as always.

I don't know what else to say about this shape other than it is a complete mind f*ck and i couldn't shape anything else the rest of the day.

D.Bowls

9'4" x 23" x 3" D.Bowls, designed by Kyle Albers.  Modernized style d-fin template and foil, thinner rails than your old tank, and much more refined, build for fun in small waves and trim at mach 10.

Soon to be added to the official 'models' section of the website!

Why are my hulls so bladed?

Okay, my hulls are necessarily THIN, thickness wise, but they are very bladed on a regular basis, and this is why.

Take a foiled hull (im sorry my mini-model is PERFECT, but it'll illustrate this for me just fine).  Full S-Deck, rolled bottom, 50/50 rails, everything is good times:

The long line across the board depicts the waterline/flow on an average burried bottom turn, the dots are your foot placement more or less, the point at which your force is applied:  

A cross section of that line, the water's path and the shape that it flows around then, is a basic hydrodynamic foil...like your fin's foil.  It creates lift and DRIVE:

When you put your hull on rail, when foiled well and the elements are placed correctly, your board becomes a lift generating foil.  The more prescise your foil is (entry foil is your nose rail, exit foil is the thickness of your tail), the more efficient your board is, the more is effectively displaces water and creates lift...

EFFICIENT SPEED.

The Same Thing We Do Every Night, Pinky....

...TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

6'1 x 21 x 2 5/8 stirngerless EPS stubbins.  This shape has the deepest roots in my design theory/backlog...I've shaped them and variations of them for myself for the past three years and love them as a daily driver in shorter or mushier waves.  Reefs, beachbreaks etc.  Lots of hull elements, lots of mush-busting skills too.

This is the first EPS version I've done, and i the 4th generation of the shape...I'm happy to introduce, Pinky.

Winter shows it's face

Trevor Gordon, Travers Adler and Brandon Smith f*in sh(t up at the c0n.

vid from Momogan Maassen.