Discussing Roy's surfboard designs.

It was your attitude I was referring to, not your bank balance.

I am honest in my business activities.

That of course, is a matter of individual opinion.

Some people say that it is, some say that it isn't. The highest paid artist in the world at present has many critics who say that his works are not art.

Some artists do, some don't... what's your point exactly?

You appear to be making the argument that having a high asking price precludes one from creating works which one enjoys, and that money is therefore the only motivation.

You are absolutely wrong in both cases.

I've done the hard yards and gone through hardship which I doubt if any of your artist friends would have been prepared to experience in order to continue their art. I'll continue to create boards as long as I can regardless of my financial situation, as I have in the past. If I make millions, I'll rejoice, if not, I'll still rejoice and will continue to design and build boards as I have in past decades.

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'The guy' thinks nothing of the sort.

Board walking is part and parcel of unbalanced surfboard design, it was done initially to overcome poor design and is now celebrated as iconic.

 

Most certainly not.

No one is forced to buy my boards and the boards can be seen in the water and under construction, as can the varying opinions published about them.

Nothing is hidden, it's all up front.

 

I'll keep answering as long as members here are interested enough to keep posting on the thread, and I'm not 'spewing cr%p' I'm answering honestly.

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We'll be going to Raglan tomorrow to slide a few on the 12'9" 'Makaha' so will hopefully have some video footage, I'm keen to let that long flat pintail with tunnel fin loose on some pointbreak walls.

The Makaha is 12'9" by 27" ( I've been making boards that wide for many years before the SUP revival) by only 2 inches thick... she's a flexible blade, weight 24 pounds ( from memory).

 

That's not the case,although it has to be pointed out that lower speeds ( which one sees on flatter sections) always move the stagnation line back behind the leading edge of the wetted surface area more than at higher speeds. This is true of all surfboards.

The longer designs have superb gliding ability and frequently I can ride unbroken swells when the Malibu and SUp crew cannot. Once in steeper sections the boards do very well also.

I have many different longboard designs so it would help if you referred to the specific board rather than 'the board'

I'm happy to get into the specific design features of my boards and what they do but have to point out that I have never said that that my boards are "better than other surfboards that are being produced today"

So you'll have to re frame your question.

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The problem there is that I have never said that.

It's a 'straw man' argument.

 

Quite so, and remember the old adage "no pain no gain".

 

Thank you for the 'zero style' observation... style is a handicap which I have striven to eliminate.

Regarding 'obnoxious' responses: I have been subject to abuse on this thread but have responded politely and calmly... any perceived obnoxious behaviour is simply due to the pain of receiving ideas which your mindset tries to reject rather than due to the content itself... in other words look to yourself.

 

It's the Vulcan mindset.

 

Far from it man Roy abhors totalitarianism in its both 'left' and 'right' forms.

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