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Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2015 10:25 am
by Slowman
He's busy on my board currently! I haven't hassled him too much ...well not at least for the last hour

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 4:51 pm
by Slowman
Check out the Astro! 5'8 x 19.5" x 2.5" goes like the clappers and not only turns on threepence it gets faster!
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Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:21 pm
by alakaboo
Looks like a wakeboard, and i mean that in a good way.
Try some lower profile fins in it. I've got something a bit similar 5'6x20.5" and it is amazing how much you can jam the turns.

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 7:54 pm
by Slowman
alakaboo wrote:Looks like a wakeboard, and i mean that in a good way.
Try some lower profile fins in it. I've got something a bit similar 5'6x20.5" and it is amazing how much you can jam the turns.
Strong enough to be used as a wakeboard or kiteboard I reckon with a layer of innegra on the deck skin. May even do it too! I'm a big boy 90kg and 184cm I need large fins or I don't get the drive I want and get too much drift when I push hard. For small waves I can go down to mediums like K2s but once it is over 3' unless the rails are really sharp my board won't hold its line.

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 10:34 am
by Mr Percival
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Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:06 pm
by pinhead
JD sighted at Winki yesterday.

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Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2015 8:11 pm
by Beerfan
I'm in line right now. I'll post pics when it's done.

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:42 pm
by Drailed
Slowman wrote:Check out the Astro! 5'8 x 19.5" x 2.5" goes like the clappers and not only turns on threepence it gets faster!
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Were you surfing coalcliff this morning sloman>??

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:05 pm
by Slowman
Drailed wrote:
Slowman wrote:Check out the Astro! 5'8 x 19.5" x 2.5" goes like the clappers and not only turns on threepence it gets faster!
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Were you surfing coalcliff this morning sloman>??
Yes probably. I sneak out there in the mornings from time to time. I did this morning anyway!

I found in the meantime that I like it better as a thruster.

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:42 pm
by Drailed
That was a while back now... Nice chatting to you! :)

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 2:29 pm
by Trev
Good to see JD get a run in the current issue of "White Horses"

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2015 9:07 pm
by JET01
Does anyone know if Josh has gone down the bonzer path?
I've seen pics of his channel bottoms so I should imagine shaping some crazy bonzer contours would not be out of the question.

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 3:44 am
by PeepeelaPew
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Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 7:17 am
by Beerfan
I'd love a JD bonzer as well. I think the depth of the concaves might be an issue, as it would thin out the layer of high density foam on the bottom. I'm sure Josh would find a way around it though.

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Shameless pic of my new JD :)

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:19 am
by gcuts
Beerfan wrote: ...
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Shameless pic of my new JD :)
A mini mal with a quad set up? Seems a bit odd to me.

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 11:53 am
by steve shearer
Looks super functional to me. Pointbreak dominator.
How's it go Beery?

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:10 pm
by alakaboo
It is hard to get wood to do big concaves but the rohacell (?) high density foam stuff josh uses would be fine I think. Though Huie said something about not liking really thin cores in compsand construction when I wanted to go to 2" on an eps core.

Re: Josh Dowling Designs

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2015 2:24 pm
by Beerfan
steve shearer wrote:Looks super functional to me. Pointbreak dominator.
How's it go Beery?
One surf in baby food mate, but it's quite refined for a midlength, much more than Im used to. 7'4" x 14 3/4"n x 21" x 14 1/2"t x 2 1/2". First impressions are it needs a bit of push I think, very happy with it so far. Hopefully when the kids are back in school this week I'll get lots of water time on it. Hopefully tomorrow when everyone's sleeping off the hangover too haha

Down the track I'm hoping to take this to the Maldives