Kelly's 5'11

Post by **donniedarko** » Mon Dec 15, 2008 8:35 am

Thoughts?

Also on foiled side fins too. Pretty heavy place and circumstance to be 'trying' stuff.

Really good to see Parko take the crown.

Post by **dUg** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 8:58 am

FCS AM-2's possibly?

Post by **donniedarko** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 12:32 pm

Yes with Glassflex 2.1 rear. Stiff...

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Tue Dec 16, 2008 5:25 pm

No, not am-2s, custom glass K3 templates.

Post by **donniedarko** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:21 am

No honeycomb/hex-core? Hmmmm....

Post by **munch** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:05 am

What ever you do, don't turn off safe search and search for "deep 6" in google images ...

you did didn't you

Post by **ric_vidal** » Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:53 am

munch wrote:you did didn't you

No

Post by **Hano** » Fri Dec 26, 2008 7:07 pm

i luv the theory behind the makeup of this design, fins n all.

was told today that the 'deep six' had a really deep concave too

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:03 am

ah it wasn't that deep. just a clean single concave, falling out flat through the tail. Pretty flattened rocker throughout, slightly modified by the concave along the rail line. It sorta had some characteristics of a towboard. Tell ya what, that one won't ride another wave, it's creased to buggery, I'm blown out it didn't snap in the final.

Post by **bro** » Mon Dec 29, 2008 2:39 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:No, not am-2s, custom glass K3 templates.

Jeez Kelly at least do the marketing boffins a favour and paint them to look like the K3's

and aren't the K3s glass? so why would he need custom glass K3s?

Post by **Nick Carroll** » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:11 am

well if you could get some poor bastard to lay up a bunch of layers of glass and then custom foil you a set of fins with exactly the flex where ya wanted it (these were v flexy in the tip then stiffer in the mid and base, I think ks was trying to gain a bit of feel out of 'em to make up for the board's shortness), then ya would.

Post by **turtle** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:25 pm

Early eighties Bill C made quads with flex in last inch of fin..
with a stepped battial, they really worked for me..

some had flier in nose

these boards could deal with most anything got thrown our way.

mostly i remember how good they felt under foot

Post by **ric_vidal** » Thu Jan 15, 2009 2:17 pm

turtle wrote:mostly i remember how good they felt under foot

As opposed to under your arm, we hope.

Post by **turtle** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:55 pm

^^ i've been fooled by the under arm 'feel' on some previous boards

so these days its 'hows it go'

when i was grom, it all about how it feel under arm & spray

Post by **huie** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 7:32 pm

its all good

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