Discussing Roy's surfboard designs.

Jeez, I don't know if I can handle that one, gnome.

 

Well, we all know you aren't rolling in cash from board sales. I am sure a successful business owner would have better things to do than argue over opinions on SI.

 

I have always said my issue is with Roy's prices, never tried to hide it. Just because surfing is not for the slum life it is by no means the hobby of the ultra rich except maybe for you if your surfing Marthas Vineyard, maybe take a ride down to NJ or MD or NC beaches and tell me what you see. Kids getting by on any old board they can ride to stay stoked, not selling their parents houses, cars and cashing in 401k's to buy Roy's boards. You keep eating your lobster and buying your yachts.

I love big business, I work for the 6th largest insurance broker in the country 7th largest in the world and am insuring a 92 million dollar high rise right now. I love money. Yes the surf industry like all industries promotes big spending, doesn't mean people can't disagree with the trend. My boards are shaped by a local guy in Wrightsville Beach who tells me the cost of materials and then adds $100-$150 for his time.

You just agreed with Brew that you sell your plans at a normal cost to make your living and use your high priced boards as the hook to get folks interested, same thing I said 3 pages ago. Thank you for proving my point.

Charles you say you mostly come to check the forecast but have 173 posts in less than 2 months. Seems you doing a lot of posting.

Again neither one of you two will come clean with the actual cost of materials to make these boards. Here is the cost sheet from my shaper for my last board:

Blank: $90
Glassing and color: $200
Cost for him shaping it: $125

Total: $415 we have been friends since 1990 so he cuts me a break but you get the picture. Oh and just so you do get the picture I have included it below.


Let's see you guys' cost?

 

Sorry but a review from a Yacht mag is not a valid opinion of the surfing community! That is like Better Homes & Gardens reviewing a Fender Guitar.

 

Damn man I didn't know your boards were in Sky Mall

If SI members opinions of your boards would sentence you to hang would you still advertise them on SI, would you feel safe. Care to take a vote?

Nice article in Home & Style, I bet every surfer subscribes to that. Based on the 800 hours of labor over an average 40 hour week that is an annual salary of a little over $3.6 million a year. I know some of that is materials but compared to a Cardiothoracic Surgeon who save lives daily and makes an average salary in the US of $423,000 seems you think you are worth a lot for making high priced toys.

 

I just pooped... I'll sell it for $1,379,999.00.

 

Holy Poop that was funny!

 

R carter you still seem so troubled about Roy's board pricing.. "Oh he makes more money than a surgeon who saves lives".. boo hoo, take your philanthropy self riceous concerns else where you big wig insurance salesmen. Hey if anything your clients are the types who buy luxury items in their hard cover catalogues who feature Roy's stuff. Double standard ..? I think so. You feed off the untra rich and so does Roy. God bless him.
Carter you love money !!? Save up and buy a Roy board dude ! Or sack up and build one yourself that's if your high rise executive life can allow you the lifestyle to do such things.

 

Self riceous? Is that an Asian thing?

 

You seem to want to single me out when I post coherent arguments and other bash Roy's boards directly. I have stayed civil long enough in this thread so here goes.

Charles you can go back to building doors for the ultra rich, banging the horse in your avatar and being Roy's lap dog and whatever other pathetic crap you do that you call a life. I will continue to enjoy making $125,000+ my wifes $97,000 a year and we will spend our money on luxury items we want just as others may choose to spend theirs on Roy's creation. You obviously can not afford Roy's boards or you would have bought one rather than the plans. None of my clients nor the ultra richies on the private jets or yachts reading about Roy's boards in the "Home & Garden" section are buying them either. Those articles are a way for them to pass the time on flights. I provide my clients service and financial security while Roy makes surf craft for hobbiest. If people want to pay for that more power to them.

Charlie Brown you are a class A douche bag and I hope when you have a heart attack Roy comes to operate on you and the heart surgeon laughs as you lay there dying. Enjoy riding your giant wooden toothpick going straight like surfers did 200 years ago. You talk about the ancient Hawaiians only allowing royalty or in your estimation the equivalent of today's rich to surf. Well lets go back to that then uneducated morons like yourself would not be in the water and instead would be resigned to acting as servants to the royalty. You are so far up Roy's @ss you you can't bare to hear any criticism of him. Why don't you move to NZ and bang the gnome and get it over with since you already have your nose so far up his @ss his balls are resting on your chin! Other wise shut up and go back to playing with your wood.

 

If you get Charles to move his mouth off your stick and above your belt I will oblige.

 

Hey, let's leave the wood out of this. There are regular wood boards out there too.