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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by PeepeelaPew » Wed Jun 12, 2019 7:58 pm

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Nick Carroll » Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:00 pm

So what happened to him?

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Trev » Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:02 pm

Nick Carroll wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:00 pm
So what happened to him?
Think the chemicals were affecting his health in a big way. Had to give it away.
Some of his customers on here will probably remember the details more clearly.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by channels » Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:54 pm

Yep, Swellnet did a lengthy article on him and the epoxy issues.

I sold my JD, liked it a lot just didn’t get the optimum conditions for it regularly enough.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Beerfan » Thu Jun 13, 2019 7:39 am

I went eps/epoxy with my last board, I knew it was quite different to josh’ tech, but thought I’d try it. It’s great in small stuff but head high plus/faster waves it’s a little bit unstable? The jd is light and paddles like a light weight board but handles faster waves so good, smooth as silk. It’s a shame he didn’t make millions.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Wyre » Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:47 am

Legion wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:07 pm
Yes he developed epoxy sensitivity. Bit hard given his epoxy construction techniques. He would cover himself head to toe in like a cleanroom suit and full head masks etc with taped joins everywhere and still break out in chronic rashes. And as a result gave it away, something he'd spent a couple of decades doing and at least one decade forging a unique path. His construction techniques were a work of art, the amount of effort that went into what he did vs. Firewire or Sunova or anything and I'm yet to feel the twang from pupe that his boards could give.
Wow that is a sad story Leej. If you weren't on the other side of the country I'd definitely get one of your JD's, he sounds like a master craftsman.

It's funny, I picture myself as a musio well into my 80's but you never know what the fcuk might happen. Arthritis could bite hard, or anything really. Best to make the most of now I guess, same as surfing.
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I remember some wheelchair xylophonist getting all macho about how he liked to smash absolutely heaps of Weetbix before a hard day's roofing

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Wyre » Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:51 am

channels wrote:
Wed Jun 12, 2019 9:54 pm
Yep, Swellnet did a lengthy article on him and the epoxy issues.

I sold my JD, liked it a lot just didn’t get the optimum conditions for it regularly enough.
What are the optimum conditions for them?
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I remember some wheelchair xylophonist getting all macho about how he liked to smash absolutely heaps of Weetbix before a hard day's roofing

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by channels » Thu Jun 13, 2019 9:57 am

They were stiff boards, so found that if it was onshore or bumpy, bounced around too much. Offshore or glassy, the boards were epic.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Beerfan » Thu Jun 13, 2019 11:53 am

I never found any of them stiff, even the short fat 5”4”. I think they’re great anytime you get a chance to really put pressure on the rails. The keel fish felt amazing in fast beachies, get it to warp speed and the cutbacks were the best I’ve ever done by far, warp speed into the turn, hyper speed out of the turn.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Trev » Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:35 pm

Not sure if any of you guys would remember Ronny Silcock. Goes back to the very early days of Sydney surfing in the 60s.
He's in hospital on the Gold Coast having had 2 strokes following unrelated surgery a week or so ago.
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I still don't buy the "official" narrative about 9/11. Oh sure, it happened, fcuk yeah. But who and why and how I'm, not convinced it was what we've been told.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Nick Carroll » Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:06 am

Weather patterns for the rest of June look like they were drawn by a drunk. More spring than early winter.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by swvic » Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:53 am

Polebean works for BOM?
marcus wrote:and that vicco dude, whatsisname?

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by steve shearer » Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:01 am

Nick Carroll wrote:
Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:06 am
Weather patterns for the rest of June look like they were drawn by a drunk. More spring than early winter.
So spring-like here.
smells, weather patterns, clouds in the sky; everything.
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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Beanpole » Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:41 am

swvic wrote:
Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:53 am
Polebean works for BOM?
No, I just create the weather.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by alakaboo » Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:54 am

steve shearer wrote:
Fri Jun 14, 2019 8:01 am
Nick Carroll wrote:
Fri Jun 14, 2019 7:06 am
Weather patterns for the rest of June look like they were drawn by a drunk. More spring than early winter.
So spring-like here.
smells, weather patterns, clouds in the sky; everything.
Our mulberry tree is covered in ripe fruit.
Never dropped it's leaves.

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Re: Just general surfing stuff

Post by Nick Carroll » Fri Jun 14, 2019 10:44 am

Some of us might remember the last really epic June/July, in 2007. The way these patterns are evolving is almost the precise opposite of that year.

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