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[Rand]

Soooo, I was rapping with Bill Foote last week about shapes, big boards, little boards, guns etc, and it struck me how much thought and experimentation he has put into stand up.  I just checked out a 13 foot by 23.5 (I think) gun he did for Alan Cadiz and talked to RR about an 11 foot design that Bill had worked out for him specifically for longer downwind wave cruises, but with the empahsis being on the wave stops along the way, not the cruising.  Having some alternative things I wanted to check out myself, I asked, and Bill agreed to shape a board for me.  Bill has been into this since Laird offered him one of his boards to check out while he was out of town way back when, and looking at our local breaks (and around his place), he has shaped a ton of these things since then.  Cool to see.  In fact the place is filled with all kinds of wave-riders.  Koa tow in boards, old shool single fin shortboards, sailboards, choke longboards, funboards, etc.  But...back to the point, we inked out an 8'6, 4.5 thick, 27.5 wide, wide point just back, light concave mid to double in the tail, but flat rail to rail (no Vee anywhere), pulled nose squash tail, domed deck, thin as possible (considerning the thickness) rails, that should be way interesting to try.  I will snap off some shots of the blank as it progresses.

[Byronmaui]

Better to have this adiction than to be hooked on crack....jk

Aloha

Byron

[StandUpPaddleSurf.net]

Yeah, this is more expensive.  Just kidding.

[Kaweeka]

So if you see me drive off the SF with the back of my pick up empty . . .  You know what it will be full of when I return 

Let's see I'll take that board for summer, that one for winter, that one for the in and out runs down the coast, that one for the  . . .     Geez you guys really know how to hook people!  And Evan needs a little competition

Must be more innovators per sq ft over there than anyplace else on earth (OK 'cept maybe Wahiawa!)  Maui No Ka Oi!

[footemaui]

MAUI NO KA OI

[Rand]

Completely stoked at how this thing is shaping up.  I would have loved to have had this thing for the little smoothies we had today.

Bill holding foam:

[Byronmaui]

Very nice shape. How many fins will you be running?

Aloha

Byron

[Rand]

Three Futures (thruster setup).  This thing has a good bit of nose kick and a lot of tail rocker, but my rocker photos did not turn out well.  That will need to wait for another day.

[Byronmaui]

From the looks I am guessing more rocker than usual. Good luck.

Aloha

Byron

[Big Island Mike]

He looks like a four year old boy holding up a 6'4" shortboard.

[surfpainter]

If you could ever listen to some of his funny stories involving people like Corky Carrol..Gary Propper and Greg Noll, you would swear you were listening to your 4 year old kid. Aside from that, Bill posesses a generation of board science from shaping short-longboards, sailboards, towboards and stand-up boards. His are not the kind you trade or sell...I call his boards..functional art !

[Rand]

From the looks I am guessing more rocker than usual. Good luck.

It does for sure.  I had requested a good sized "paddle spot" that would remain relatively low rocker, but more than usual tail rocker and even more nose kick.  How he blended that into the smooth lines that are now there, with only 8.5 feet to work with, I have no idea.

Aside from that, Bill posesses a generation of board science from shaping short-longboards, sailboards, towboards and stand-up boards. His are not the kind you trade or sell...I call his boards..functional art !

It is very cool to see this in action.  Templates and tools from the last 30 years come off the walls and lines get drawn, measuremunts taken, all with people in the shaping room, and carrying on a conversation.  I'm watching the hands flying around, and going, wait.. what did you..how...why...ah forget it.

[noworrieshawaii]

Once upon a time I had a really sweet little Foote board too... Bummers, it met its match one really big day at Kahaha few years ago.. Snapped it right in half. 

[footemaui]

Now that brings back memories...

[supguam]

Bill nice pics of the  8'6"board..got any thats completed or tested yet?