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Ok, let me disagree with all of the above-

Go with something under 4', wide and thin. Initially, making something out of plywood would be a good move. It's not about floatation, it's about planing ...

For the third year in a row it received the Beach Bummer award:

http://www.healthebay.org/brc/annual/2004/execsumm.asp

"Orange County beaches had a significant reduction in the number of sewage ...

Hell, I need the foam... given a sheet of that, I've got a shop full of tools to whip it on out.

By the way, Nels, I stumbled across your Sustainability page - very good.
( http://vagabondsurf. ...

Sheet foam, man. Run it through a table saw, stick in a glue line to give it some rocker and then attack it with a bandsaw and sur-form the puppie to shape. Coupla barely foiled slabs of fiberglass to ...

Lordy lordy - give it red fins and that's my first board.....

As to the fin system on the El Paipo - http://vagabondsurf.com/PaipoGrabs.html shows the long-box version, I think.

This particular board has a box skeg. The skeg has two screws both for and aft that secure the skeg to the box. I asked Bert to post his comments on the board.

Hi John,

Yeah, that is definitel ...

Finally done (how many hours later?), and my computer isn't harboring anything communicable virus-wise.

Since Doc mentioned opening attachments in e-mail you aren't sure about, I thought I'd put ...

the most amusing was when I received virused email that was purportedly from another of my own email addresses.

Turned out to be an idiot who had both of those addresses in his contact list. And w ...

Golf shoes, I need golf shoes. There's lizards everywhere.

My Samoan attorney will have to be consulted, let me go fire up the Shark.

Had a roomie once, cat called Michael G. Burdoulis ( the G ...

We've got some weird sh*t happening on this group!

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

Yes, thank you I got the pictures. They bounced around a buffer or something for a couple of weeks. Does Todd still call it Big Ass Paipo? B.A.P.? The Bapper? Or something totally new? Is Todd on ...

Up to $500 now, but one of the bidders has a feedback rating of negative two. I've only seen one Greg Noll bellyboard before, and it was a twin fin.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewIte ...

Well, yes and no. The patent also specifies three ( or more) fins, in what could be called a 'conventional thruster' configuration. Further, if John wanted to, he could maybe do something about this p ...

Cripes, put a tide watch on the thing with a little strap stitched on and you'd have the longboard accessory market sewed up. Reminds me of those godawful huge leather watchbands from the '70s.

Think Big Lebowski goes surfing.....

Somebody actually hosts "Big Lebowski" tours out here in Southern California. One of the most cosmic movies, right up there with "PowWow Highway" and "Rancho De ...