Discussing Roy's surfboard designs.

I have a friend in Galveston who is an artist who has built five wooden boards now. The first one was with his teenage son for a school project and it was soooo awesome he built 4 more different size and shape boards. They are completely functional, inside is hollow airplane wing type support. He added a removable thumb screw on the back of the deck to relieve the pressure so if it is out in the sun so they will not split but put the screw back in so it is water tight when used.

I bought two of them from him over the past year and placed in my house as works of art. They are beautiful and everyone is amazed at these when they see them. He spent hundreds of hours on these things and I paid him $1000 for one and $800 for the other.

He got the plans from some builder in Cali, paid for the stuff, talked to him over the phone several times and off he went. We surfed the first board he made just to make sure it actually worked. Well, it works, kinda.....by some way different standard. Things are made as light as possible and they are still tanks that will take your head off. Once up they hold a wave much differently than anything else you've every surfed but it wasn't fun AT ALL!

Point is if you want art, pay for art. If you want to surf pay for the latest and greatest proven technology like any other sport. You don't see football players wearing leather helmets any more...do you.

More than happy with my 2 wall hangers and they even mean more to me since they were built (not shaped) by a friend. $1800 well spent in my opinion but that's where it stops.

I'll snap a couple pics of the tonight and post so we can see what ole Roy thinks about them!

 

i'm roy stuart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

yeah roy!!!!!!!!!!! lol. Im laughing my arse off at this!

 

HAHAHA, Yeah you're right, if he could get a picture of that i'd say it's 100% original, as for him being full of sh*t, i'd say he is either way. Love the helmet, must be something he's been wearing since childhood.

 

Check out Wefi surfboards. A guy in vancouver is making some high performance boards out there with modern designs.

 

Nice. Very nice.

 

Wealthy and stupid would describe anyone that would pay $500k+ for one of your boards. You are ripping them off. The only people buying this board would be idiots that just like it because it is expensive and other people don't have it. Wealthy people in general are not stupid, but your customers (if you have any) are.

 

I think it's time for a BENCH OFF!

 

OK.

Please back this up.

Please tell me why you "have such a large advantage over the other boards and the ride feels so much more liberating."

Terms like "feel" are completely subjective. Please tell me what advantages your boards provide and what design aspects of your board provide theses advantages.

 

Are these Roy Stuart models?

 

I totally respect your equanimity and logic and don't really understand why people are name-calling and demanding pictures. For me, though, a 70 pound board isn't going to work. I spend my time riding waves (and mountains) in places that aren't easily accessible so my equipment has to work on the approach (or uphill) AND in the waves (or downhill). Strapping a 70 pound board on my pack and hiking 15 miles over mountains and down boulder-strewn cliffs to get to a break is like skinning up mountains on super-fat skis: the ride in (or down) MIGHT be more enjoyable, but the ride is only half of the experience for me; getting to the ride is the other, equally important, half. I need a balance between performance in both arenas and in both directions. So while I'm sure there's a place for your boards, it's not in the backcountry.

 

....It's ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!