Ask Carroll

[crabmeat thompson]

watch this egg pass through this bottle!

[PeepeelaPew]

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[crabmeat thompson]

it was my first introduction to physics, and it was love at first sight.

although i'm more into guerrilla physics.

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[marauding mullet]

watch this egg pass through this bottle!

LOL why is it so?

[ctd]

I'm not allergic to latex.

Who's the fashionable cat with the crappy chocolate?

50% of people with a latex allergy are also allergic to bananas. The products have similar biological makes ups.

So, Nick, since this is your thread and you are thinking about boards a lot: what do you think about (if anything) the 'gemini' surfboard

(yes, the nose of the board is at the top of the photo). As a sailor I know that double hulls are very fast but they need to be set wide apart so are hard to turn. No idea if the principal follows through to boards

gemini01_th.jpg

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[Davros]

"Watch it, watch it"

[alakaboo]

I'm not allergic to bananas either. Or any of the other latex fruits.
I ate too many bananas and am now intolerant.

[rmb]

Gday Nick was just reading about some uproar regarding a video clip posted on the Inertia website of some waves in Kauai. As a lifelong surf writer where do you draw the line on what to publish and what remains untold in the media? What do you make of the Kauai Locals stance on such matters?

I can see their point of view but what is fair for them should be for everyone and surf report/forecasting websites probably play a role in attracting unwanted crowds on occasions but what do you do it's the way things have evolved.

[rmb]

Gday Nick was just reading about some uproar regarding a video clip posted on the Inertia website of some waves in Kauai. As a lifelong surf writer where do you draw the line on what to publish and what remains untold in the media? What do you make of the Kauai Locals stance on such matters?

I can see their point of view but what is fair for them should be for everyone and surf report/forecasting websites probably play a role in attracting unwanted crowds on occasions but what do you do it's the way things have evolved.

As a side note beach grit, stab and the inertia are probably three of the dullest surf related websites.

[crabmeat thompson]

I ate too many bananas and am now intolerant.

banana impotence, we call that.

[alakaboo]

Man, that sounds better than the snip.
Wonder how many I need to eat?

[Davros]

58, but you have to do it within 2 hours otherwise it doesn't take. Let us know how you go.

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[Nick Carroll]

So, Nick, since this is your thread and you are thinking about boards a lot: what do you think about (if anything) the 'gemini' surfboard

(yes, the nose of the board is at the top of the photo). As a sailor I know that double hulls are very fast but they need to be set wide apart so are hard to turn. No idea if the principal follows through to boards

gemini01_th.jpg

Umm it's hard to think much about a board just from looking at a picture. Specially a picture from just one angle

Just looking at it though, seems as if the main effect would be to straighten up the nose outline and clutter up the entry a bit.

Surfboards and sailing boats are very different craft - double hulls are fast because they reduce wetted area while increasing the effective length of the craft, right? That's not such a great recipe in surfboard design. As you point out, such a craft is harder to turn.

I dunno but again, just looking at it, seems way too complicated. What's wrong with a board that it's trying to fix?

[Nick Carroll]

Gday Nick was just reading about some uproar regarding a video clip posted on the Inertia website of some waves in Kauai. As a lifelong surf writer where do you draw the line on what to publish and what remains untold in the media? What do you make of the Kauai Locals stance on such matters?

I can see their point of view but what is fair for them should be for everyone and surf report/forecasting websites probably play a role in attracting unwanted crowds on occasions but what do you do it's the way things have evolved.

Ha ha well first I would say that the number of "Kauai Boys" replying in those comments would be minimal and they kinda want to watch out themselves, using the Alexanders' and Kai Garcia's names to sound all tough etc. They best hope Kai and Kala etc don't find out who THEY are. It takes a special kind of tard to talk all "I'm coming to get you! I am! I've just got to figure out where you live!" under a pseudonym on the Internet.

In my experience the long time surfers on Kauai are pretty cool people and while one or two spots are kinda off limits to casual visitors on some days, nobody flips out at an OK surfer showing up and being cool him/herself. But it's not the Gold Coast either and you could wander that island for a while and never find most of the good spots.

As a surf writer I've had a range of experiences around the issue, I've had the most success with it when I've been guided by my own surfer's sense of what's appropriate. Like if I am visiting a spot or surf zone at someone else's invitation and it's kind of unknown, and the person is concerned about publicity etc, then I respect that in reportage etc. But I also want to inform the reader and explain a place, give a story context etc, so most of the time I just do that, and don't get too tangled up in all the secret spot bullshit. Because, like really, most of the time it is bullshit. I'm interested in that bullshit because it's so human, but I've only got so much patience for it.

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Nick, forgetting the whole 'but-kooks-buy-them' complication, what do you think of the Hypto Krypto as a wave riding vehicle?