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Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!
« Reply #30 on: May 27, 2009, 09:54:39 AM »
I windsurf/prone whatever it takes.

I don't see the volume thing as that big......they all float, and the stability is more in the planform.   Ok, so it's one more number......

BUT PLEASE:
   This is the US of A.....
   If you really want numbers, do we have to be all metric?

   I mean I hated when sails went from square feet to square meters.

   Why not put the numbas in gallons!
   
   Better yet, just size'm
         "This board will float One Akebono"         

   Don't let the Euros take this over too! 

   I know, I know....but you gotta admit.....

Ps.....The windsurfing volume numbers are really guesstimates, and often wrong

   

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« Reply #31 on: May 27, 2009, 11:37:43 AM »
BUT PLEASE:
   This is the US of A.....
   If you really want numbers, do we have to be all metric?

Heheheheh,

But wait...yeah, I want metric on this one.  That is until we can make one gallon perfectly float one pound.  It sure was smart of those Euros to let one displaced Liter float one KG.   That way you can figure exactly what it takes to float your metric weight...and even your Yankee weight as long as you have the Units app for your iPhone...which you should  ;D

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« Reply #32 on: May 27, 2009, 02:57:10 PM »
Sorry Outcast, but it has to be metric, that's what the industry has been using for years, and that's what we all are used to by now, we've learned to relate to those numbers.

If it went the other way all of a sudden, I'd be lost,  ???, but on anything else, I prefer standard.
It takes a quiver to do that.

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« Reply #33 on: May 27, 2009, 05:32:11 PM »
Go ahead and give another great american innovation away.....

SO.....going METRIC ?...?
Forget about calling your board a 10'  ....call it a 305

"Guess i'll just bus out my trusty 278...."

Centimeters of course....thats what windsurfing boards are labelleled with.

So what industry, and how much metric....just some?   
 
This is a HISTORIC opportunity.
YOU....this forum is trying to decide an industry standard. ( ...maybe for real!)

First, I don't think you should do it......nobody puts volume on a surfboard. 

BUT......WHY NOT?:
    "This is a 40 Gallon sup....should work for you....take it or leave it."
    or my standard:    "1/4 Akebono"    If you don't know Akebono too bad for you

And it's "a pint a pound, the world around"  conversion is easy....
(8 pounds a gallon....20 Gallons floats 160 lbs.....and you don't have to figure out how many kilograms you weigh.......changes with salinity, just like liters and kgs do)

COME ON....let the Euros have hash, legalized prostitution, really old buildings and TERRIBLE GRAPHICS on their windsurfing boards...!    Please don't do it!

Why do you think windsurfing died off?    Too many people running around wondering if they didn't have enough liters/centimeters/meters.....all the hot chicks left the building!!!!
Bunch a techno nerds left muttering to themselves on the beach, comparing numbers   "what size sail/fin/board is that?"......( i still love to sail despite it all :)

Blane....someone will do it and be richer for it i guess......just Mahalo for my 10'6....all 142.5 liters!
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Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!
« Reply #34 on: May 27, 2009, 05:44:03 PM »
Sorry Outcast, not just the euros, you will have a fight with aussies over this one to. ;D

Metric is here to stay. Having said that, we all still prefer foot and inches on boards.

You blokes in the US should look outside the square and make your money in different colours.  ???
Not sure how you get on with a one dollar bill the same colour as 100 dollar bill ???

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« Reply #35 on: May 27, 2009, 06:21:40 PM »
we use green on all our money to show how environmentally conscious we are.

didn't know we had $100 dollar bills though..my wife told me i could only have 1's and $5's
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« Reply #36 on: May 27, 2009, 09:04:16 PM »
I can't believe anybody would be against listing KNOWN information of a board, especially one that they are trying to sell. Maybe we are not smart enough to use that info correctly.

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« Reply #37 on: May 27, 2009, 09:31:53 PM »
I can understand Blane's and other shapers point in not putting the volume number. It's just redundant after awhile. If all car manufacters put the volume of their tires, weight of their drive shaft, aerodynamic coefficient, etc. of all the cars they make, is all of that going to influence a buyer? That would be so many information to comprehend and factor in it doesn't make sense.
Thier point in shape, width, rocker, etc. plays a lot more factor than volume makes sense. You could have a 10' board, 27" wide and x volume.  If you keep the volume a constant, x, and play with the length and width, say like 15' by 27" wide, definately a thinner board, and floatation is different.

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« Reply #38 on: May 27, 2009, 11:03:16 PM »
Sorry Outcast, not just the euros, you will have a fight with aussies over this one to. ;D

Metric is here to stay. Having said that, we all still prefer foot and inches on boards.

You blokes in the US should look outside the square and make your money in different colours.  ???
Not sure how you get on with a one dollar bill the same colour as 100 dollar bill ???
It is pretty hilarious when you think of it.  We "yanks" told the Brits to beat it but yet we are stuck with their archaic measurement systems.

I think they got the last laugh on us on this one.

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« Reply #39 on: May 27, 2009, 11:08:51 PM »
Sorry Outcast, not just the euros, you will have a fight with aussies over this one to. ;D

Metric is here to stay. Having said that, we all still prefer foot and inches on boards.

You blokes in the US should look outside the square and make your money in different colours.  ???
Not sure how you get on with a one dollar bill the same colour as 100 dollar bill ???
It is pretty hilarious when you think of it.  We "yanks" told the Brits to beat it but yet we are stuck with their archaic measurement systems.

I think they got the last laugh on us on this one.
Not while I can laugh with all my teeth, straight and white.
You ever seen thier teeth there?

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« Reply #40 on: May 28, 2009, 03:34:41 AM »
On a serious note:

   Don't forget to add 1 Gallon (3.7whatever liters/ .08 Akebono) of float at a mimimum for the deck pad .

     
Ps Scotty,
   Starboard graphics ARE the best of the production windsurfing boards, and sup line pretty cool too IMHO.....
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Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!
« Reply #41 on: May 28, 2009, 04:01:42 AM »
For clarification:

   If your board can float this man, it is a 1.0 Akebono
   
   (Alot easier than "liters")
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Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!
« Reply #42 on: May 28, 2009, 07:18:27 AM »
What about one Akebono in a wetsuit?

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« Reply #43 on: May 28, 2009, 07:31:51 AM »
Just the facts Jack.   

Paddle Surf Hawaii
All Arounder Series
9-2   124 liters
9-6   128 liters
10'    137 liters
10-3  142 liters
10-6  147 liters

Wide All Arounder Series
9-6    139 liters
10-6  167 liters
11'     178 liters

Ripper Series
9-3    123 liters
9-6 Wide    136 liters
9-8    130 liters
9-10  133 liters
12' Gun   173 liters


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Re: To Blane and all the shapers out there: Please post volume numbers!
« Reply #44 on: May 28, 2009, 08:11:49 AM »
Thanks.

That is very helpful to me.

 


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