crawf said..
Wow... I thought the new toy at 1730 long was going to be a coffee table. Yours is inspirational!!
Lift off takes some work, but when in flight it just wants to stay there...

A really beautiful masterpiece!

150 lt volume or just under. With straps its around 15kg so still heavyish. We figured after the first couple of build attempts it needed additional ribs to prevent flexing of the deck underfoot. Patricularly due to my generous frame... So the matrix compartments within ribs and stringers are about 150 x 50mm. Im messing with trying to reduce weight and expanding matrix core with foam. Maybe for another thread. Azymuths inspiration with the shorter boards live on....

I spotted this one year and a half ago. Hollow as well. I'm not sure how easy is to take off because the bottom is so flat. I think that day was its maiden voyage.

Faff said..

WillyWind said..
I spotted this one year and a half ago. Hollow as well. I'm not sure how easy is to take off because the bottom is so flat. I think that day was its maiden voyage.

"The monolith".

Faff said..

thedoor said..

Faff said..

WillyWind said..
I spotted this one year and a half ago. Hollow as well. I'm not sure how easy is to take off because the bottom is so flat. I think that day was its maiden voyage.

"The monolith".

Yeah, you touch one of these super short boards and start thinking about winging.

Not this kid
Riding a149 cm board
Still haven't convinced myself to sacrifice a day to start winging.
I don't succumb to peer pressure very easy.

That board is a work of art.
I Can Only Imagine how many man-hours are into that.

That is one crazy board and some mad skills to get it going.
I built one last year and tried it a few times in stronger winds. The vid is from the first voyage, I got more comfortable on it but as always its a world of compromises. And IMHO if I can't up haul it easily and its too narrow to get leverage on the rail the trade off for a marginally livelier board is not worth the hassle. For me its about having fun and a little bigger board makes getting going, getting back, bouncing up off chop and recovering in between waves easier and easier = fun.