Fastest of the fast?

[stuey c]

     Hi guys, stoked that you all seem intersested. I'll give my thoughts on a couple points you have bought up when I get home from work tonight and yes I am serious about my offer. I'm game and am offering to put up a week and a half of my work for this. No it wont find the ultimate board, for the moment mines as close to that as I can get and yes don't make too many rules or it will become like the Americas Cup. Remember you called me, when I stated my opinions! I think it will be a helluva of a lot of fun, a great exchange of ideas. a bit of friendly intercontinental rivalry and damnit, a great excuse for a bbq and some beers. Have a nice day or night wherever and whenever you are..........Stuey

[Scotty Mac]

Ozzie Ozzie Ozzie, oi oi oi.

[Byronmaui]

    Hi guys, stoked that you all seem intersested. I'll give my thoughts on a couple points you have bought up when I get home from work tonight and yes I am serious about my offer. I'm game and am offering to put up a week and a half of my work for this. No it wont find the ultimate board, for the moment mines as close to that as I can get and yes don't make too many rules or it will become like the Americas Cup. Remember you called me, when I stated my opinions! I think it will be a helluva of a lot of fun, a great exchange of ideas. a bit of friendly intercontinental rivalry and damnit, a great excuse for a bbq and some beers. Have a nice day or night wherever and whenever you are..........Stuey

Stuey
Look forward to your reply tonight. I am glad we have an agreement. Please understand this is not a personal thing or in any way an online fight. I am glad that we are going to test your theory and Ponobill's math. I was never good at math and surely you and ponobill's formula will win . I am just stuck on the motor (rider) part of it.  I promise in return the board will be used and abused by anyone on Maui that wants to give it a ride. I think the board is a wonderful piece of work and believe it is a great board. Actually you could get some nice advertising out of it. I am about having fun and at the end of the day it is all good.
Thank you for being a gentleman and a scholar throughout this and may the best board/athlete win.

Aloha

Byron

[stoneaxe]

The results of the 1st race at Standupzone Downs are in!

superb athlete and physics may have been neck and neck but it seems all-of-us beat them by a nose.

[Scotty Mac]

Maybe the 12 footer could be the new naish glide?

[StandUpPaddleSurf.net]

What do you guys think about opening up the race to others to see how they do on their own boards?  It could be just a "come if you want to join us" kinda thing and will give us all more insight into what's working. 

What about also doing some runs on Oahu?

[Sam Pa'e]

What do you guys think about opening up the race to others to see how they do on their own boards?  It could be just a "come if you want to join us" kinda thing and will give us all more insight into what's working. 

What about also doing some runs on Oahu?

Count me in......I'll show up with my slow ass board.

I would love to participate in this race. Maui or Oahu

Aloha...Sam

[warped]

What do you guys think about opening up the race to others to see how they do on their own boards?  It could be just a "come if you want to join us" kinda thing and will give us all more insight into what's working. 

What about also doing some runs on Oahu?

I think that would be an awesome idea.  Kind of like the idea Admin proposed in the race class thread: all boards welcome, any length, rudder/no rudder, anything goes, may the best man win, just for fun of course.  Follow that up with a bbq & it could serve as sort of a "forum outing" where members, potential members & anybody else interested in sup could get to know each other. Sounds like it'd be a good time & Im sure you'd have a good turnout whether its just on maui or both maui & oahu.

[stoneaxe]

Hehe...the "challenge" hasn't even been ironed out yet. It would be great to have an open race but get the challenge part over with 1st.

[PonoBill]

Okay, if Byron is funding the board I'll fund the barbeque and the beer. I know firsthand that Randy can eat his weight in pig.

[StandUpPaddleSurf.net]

Bill is not joking about how much Rand can eat...it's unreal.

[stuey c]

      Hi guys, it's me again, a little sad but back. I've unfortunatly been hit from all sides even my own country! I've been accused of everything from disrespecting the Hawaiians to this being nothing but a marketing ploy to sell boards. As I said before none of this was ever my intention. My one mistake was probably including Woogie in part of the challenge without confering with him first as he is away at the moment. I don't care about selling boards except to put food in my mouth and to help my sons surfing career. All I wanted to do was tell you guys about a different design of downwind paddleboards I had created and the reasons for their differences, if I came across as arrogant as I've been told, again this was never my intention, I still hold to my opinions,ideas and am every bit as passionate about the Penetrator. For the reasons I've cited I'll be pulling back on THE CHALLENGE. Sorry to those of you who were interested and keen to see it go ahead. Byronmauii, I'll be in touch via private message and would still love to send you the Penetrator 572 at the quoted price, damn cheap as our dollar has fallen even lower. Please test it as you see fit, put it against a 12', another 18' whatever you like, I'm sure you'll come away thinking as I do that it is a trully great design but please do me a favour and let me know what you think (in a private message, please). To the rest of you, once again I meant no disrespect and I'm sorry for causing a rukus........Goodbye and Aloha.......Stuey Campbell
P.S. Sorry PonoBill would have liked to have met you, don't let Randy eat all that pig and make sure Byron gives you a ride on his new craft.

[stoneaxe]

Stuey...for what its worth...I didn't think you came off as arrogant....confident for sure...proud of your design and background, decidely so, with good reason from what I can see. And a passionate belief of your own doesn't mean your'e disrespectful of others. You came across with some strong statements and I'm still questioning what the correct answers are. On a molokai downwinder I still think that Dave K paddling a bathtub smokes Average Joe. On flatwater or no swells physics is physics without the variables thrown in and it becomes a contest at least.

I hope we still get to see/hear what the results might be.....we should still BBQ and drink anyway... ...I was already planning on it....

[Byronmaui]

Stuey

You are a gentleman and a scholar. I was going to say this last night but had to do food shopping with the wife.
As I was shopping I had a thought as I was buying bananas. Stuey is not nutz he is just a passionate guy about his boards and understandibly so since he builds them by hand. This is rarely seen nowadays with many board builders nowadays and I think you are a special breed. After this thought I realized I was bananas for letting my fingers do the thinking. Please understand that your statements were never taken in a hawaiian's suck or being disrespectful towards hawaiian paddlers kind of thing. I was just fixated on you and ponobill's math belief. I still am but that is another story for another day. I will not be buying a board unless that is the board you use in the Molokai and you do not want to take it back. If you leave it I will buy it and test it for you and let people test it. Thank you and please do not lose the fire because once that happens your boards will be just boards and not works of art.

Your friend

Byron

[Admin]

Hi guys,

This has taken a big turn for the better.

Lets have some fun with this.  I say get some of Stuey's boards over here.  One for Bill, one for Byron.  

Stuey, I bet Bill could be convinced to fly you over and put you up.  That way you can paddle with us, make sure we are doing it right, we can all swap gear...and then do it again.  

If you guys see value in having a top pro there, and can get one, I will shut my mouth.  It sure won't hurt.