review of the Ke Nalu (Pono Bill) paddle

[balance_fit]

Up and running in Puerto Rico ! Bongo keeps following my every move too.

[jdmotes]

 Up here in N Florida, Bill...         Paddle on,        JD

[firesurf]

Yep, Ke Nalu site is working  in SW FL.
 Bill,  planning a trip to Maui around the 3rd week of May. Wondering if I can get a paddle from you while we're there?

[PonoBill]

Thanks everyone, Okay, I've switched the nameservers to the new site. The DNS should have propagated on the west coast at least. Still running?

[RainWaves]

 Just got done with my first order a few minutes ago, and all was well.

Can't wait to get one of these back in my hand. I didn't realize what a "club" my 29oz paddle was until I got home last week. I used to love it, but now forever spoiled . Thanks Bill!

[mantaray]

I just tried to order something...chose one item...and a whole bunch of stuff came up in my shopping cart.
Then it came up with someone elses name and shipping info already in the form.

[mantaray]

Yep...it was RainWaves info that was showed.....

[RainWaves]

Yep...it was RainWaves info that was showed.....

 I didn't realize there was issues with the system before I placed my order, only after the fact when I came here. Hopefully that will clear up soon!

[PonoBill]

Crap. And I can't see what it's doing until the DNS propagates to Hawaii.

Rainskates, your order came through fine.

Thanks everyone, we're close to back completely. What a pain. Fortunately our system never takes an credit card info, that's why we use Paypal off the site. But address information is private too.

I think the new hosting company is going to be a lot better than my old one, we were going down a couple times per week. At least these new guys are responsive and helpful.

[mantaray]

Might have been a timing thing.  I was probably in there just as he finished, though I'm sure you don't want that to happen even if that's the case.  I was just back on and the form with shipping info came up blank this time.
There are a couple missing images in the "Products" page (Wiki Downwinder and Maliko Downwinder).

[PonoBill]

The DNS seems to have propagated everywhere in the world except Maui. This is so weird. Nothing to do but wait. I guess I'll get the hell away from the computer and go do a downwind. WOW--a new excuse!! My DNS record hasn't propagated, might as well go play!

Henrik--the "sale" price thing is a feature that wasn't working previously that suddenly decided to work in the new environment. I'll fix it as soon as I gain the least bit of control over this thing. In the meantime, look at the savings!!

I'm glad it didn't go the other way and decide on a 100% discount and make everything free.

Firesurf, unfortunately I have to go back to Hood River in a little over a week. My wife needs to be there to help her family through a medical situation. But Hi Tech here in Maui carries Ke Nalu paddles. See Steve--he'll set you up.

Mantaray--shouldn't have happened, we sometimes have four or five people ordering simultaneously. Without boring everyone, our database back end was not connecting properly. From what I can see in my limited way from here it should be OK now, but I've been surprised before.

[PonoBill]

Finally!! I've been bugging my ISP, they finally admitted that their servers only update DNS every 24 hours. I think it's less often than that. Who set that up? What, are we farmers? (gratuitous 30 Rock reference). Anyway, I'm back in biz.

Once of the first things I did was add a new Total Custom paddle. One of our more enthusiastic customers wants to add a paddle to his collection with a 100Flex shaft and an xTuf blade (no, it's not Tim, though that wouldn't surprise anyone). I didn't see that one coming, but it makes sense. If you do it with components it's expensive, so I created this thing, which lets you choose exactly what you want and pay the usual complete paddle price for the bits. Of course it works for dealers too, with the normal dealer discounts. Kind of cute.

http://www.kenalu.com/products-page/paddle-2/custom-paddle-2/ I'm sure it's going to drive our warehouse manager batty.

Diane had already fixed most of the goofy inconsistencies that popped up after the move. I gave her admin rights and she's starting to flex her geek muscles. It's kind of scary, but we'll see how that goes. She's the kind that pushes a button harder and faster when it doesn't work the first time.

[PonoBill]

Spoke too soon on the custom paddle. The rest of the folks at Ke Nalu want to review it before we release it to the wild. Should just be a day.

[PonoBill]

Okay, Custom Paddle is up and it works just fine--we've already got an order from it before I even re-announced it. I should probably make that the first think people see, though not everyone knows what they want so it might be a little intimidating. I need to do a bunch of work to the site but it's working very well in it's new home. It's a cloud-based service with extensive fail-over capability. Should be much more reliable (it says right here in the brochure).

[JillRide45]

Hi PB, I am very interested in trying out one of your paddles with the 60 flex shaft of the Xtuf shaft.  Can you describe the difference in feel of them...  I have a QB flyweight that I love the flex of the shaft but the blade is too small and has no catch.

Best would be a rep in Dana Point area that has some paddles that I could test out. Any names to contact.

Thanks, Jill