Nice!!

DW, get the Wizard to help you out with some background music and a chest or head mount.

PTWoody said...

DavidJohn said...


I'm on my 14' Glide... It's also built for speed..

DJ

If 18 km/h is the bench mark, I guess I have a few boards that are built for speed. And yeah, they're only 14'.

You Melbourne guys are in enclosed waters, DW is surfing open ocean wind swells with larger periods and only 15knots of winds, Totally different Down wind conditions to Port Phillip.

Towny, I agree exactly.
DJ & PT - you might be taking Downwinder a little too seriously... I don't know, emotion is a funny thing in typed text!?

Yes, in Downwinder's video you can tell it is barely 15 knots... in DJ's video is probably honking at about 20-25 knots with 30+ knot gusts. Quite different conditions.

Sorry DJ, but Downwinder would have left you in his wake at Burleigh on that day, SIC F18 v Naish 14 anything! (Flame suit on! )

Downwinder, I'm still convinced that the F-18 is built for speed, and is probably the quickest Downwind board, when it's 15 knots in the open ocean... I wish I had one, and an extra garage!

Simondo said...
Towny, I agree exactly.
DJ & PT - you might be taking Downwinder a little too seriously... I don't know, emotion is a funny thing in typed text!?

Yes, in Downwinder's video you can tell it is barely 15 knots... in DJ's video is probably honking at about 20-25 knots with 30+ knot gusts. Quite different conditions.

Sorry DJ, but Downwinder would have left you in his wake at Burleigh on that day, SIC F18 v Naish 14 anything! (Flame suit on! )

Downwinder, I'm still convinced that the F-18 is built for speed, and is probably the quickest Downwind board, when it's 15 knots in the open ocean... I wish I had one, and an extra garage!

Thanks Simondo You Couldn't Explain It Any Easier

Scotty88 said...
It must be a boardshorts over the wetsuit thing.

Nah DW is from Queensland

Could be the year Scotty I have another two lb's to sneak in both in a few weeks then you never know.12.6 SIC second hand would be my weakness.

Simondo said...

DJ & PT - you might be taking Downwinder a little too seriously...

Au contraire, my friend, I don't know that I've ever taken Downwinder too seriously.

But back on topic, someone else said it best - ALL raceboards are built for speed.

Except the F18. It's not built for anything these days.

thePup said...

Scotty88 said...

62mac said...
Could be the year Scotty I have another two lb's to sneak in both in a few weeks then you never know.12.6 SIC second hand would be my weakness.

SIC bro.
You should try for a Biku sponsor.

He is the BIKU coin scotty hahahaha sponsor himself geez

I know that's why I said it.

^^^
and a good 2c it is too

rahams said...
My 2cents worth
down winding is the same as surfing
There are great waves there are **** waves and everything in between
No matter what board you are on if you get a great wave your stoked
Even if your on a board that's not perfect for that wave or run
You don't give a **** .
There is way to much focus on what board you are riding to get the best or longest runs.
For me a sweet short run on a 10 ' board is as good as if i was on a 14' board
And went 100 times as long.

Very well said rahams, but it pays to have a quiver of Surfboards I like to have a variety off fun

I recon I got close to 2 mins on this run....



Downwinding rocks!

Happy New Year Ozzies

just checked, was 98 seconds!

We have't seen many 14+ boards in SA. I think there is 1 x 15' Starboard and a 17' glide. But the Glide doesn't work so well in our conditions.

Would love to try a 16' though..... one day!

Rob

Thanks for the vid Rob.. I've seen it before but great to see it again.. It looks like you're surfing a standing wave in a river.. Weird.. There's no sensation of moving or of speed.. Why is that?.. and I've been out in those winds heaps but it never looked quite like that.. Must be very off shore wind direction and fairly shallow.. and it looked more like 50-60 knots if not more.. It's weird what the water does in very strong winds and shallow'ish water.. I've seen waist to chest high waves in 30-40 knots get flattened to about a foot high when the wind gusts to around the 60 knot range.. It looks like smoke going across the water.. You would need a very good leash on the board and what ever you do dont let go of your paddle.. Anything like a board or even paddle will not stay on the surface of the water in those winds.

DJ

DJ
It was a very windy day and we set off from a secluded bay with no ocean swell. We were about 800m out when this video started. It is rather shallow and the wind was dead offshore. We were certainly moving, but it's like a conveyor belt. The guts were super strong but the meters only showed an average wind speed of a lot less. There is a large mountain behind us, so the wind flies down and out to see. It obviously produces some strange conditions, but fun ones!
We use the Hooley handmade big wave surf leashes in these conditions. Not worth taking a risk on one of the coil jobs.

Those big boards sound like fun!

Rob