Monday, 22 October 2012

An Interesting Piece of Furniture

                                           Thats an interesting piece of furniture!!
This is how this board was described to me last week as i walked down to the steps to
                                   frenchmans Beach on North Stradbroke Island
This board has come about in an effort to to stop the sideways slide you get on finless craft when
                                              surfing waves with a bit of grunt
                                               
So far i have ridden it in good solid slightly bumpy beach break surf and some fast little sand bottom
                point break peelers over on Straddie and it has been heaps of fun
 I have overcome the directional limitations of asymetrical boards(one board for surfing lefts and another for surfing rights)   by shaping both a concave in both the top and bottom and making my rails symetrical above and below .I am able to do this because like most alaia and other paipo i have no nose or tail lift, no rocker .So that if you are surfing a beach break or at different point breaks you can just flip the board over and there you go. An Asymetrical paipo that goes Left or Right .

            You just have to decide before you take off as its a bit hard to flip it over on the move !