This category is specific to wakesurf boards.
Mar 22
We admit it, we’re obsessed. Obsessed with design, weight, performance. Each incarnation of a wakesurfer is a test in some fashion, we try different fabrics, or foam, sometimes resin. We’ll be honest, the vast majority of the combinations don’t yield a better product, so we don’t persue them, but sometimes we learn somethig, whether it …
Mar 13
Have you ever heard the Flyboy wakesurf board referred to as a skim board or a system beater? Typically such references are made by folks that don’t know any better, or have an agenda. They’ve never shaped a board or probably have never even held a Flyboy. As we’ve mentioned, in the wakesurf community no one …
Mar 05
It’s funny, the James Walker signature model surf style wakesurf board is sometimes referred to as a skimboard, we’re not sure why, but we thought we’d take a minute to show you some of the attributes of a skim style wakesurf board. First, a picture of the new White Lightning skim style wakesurf board from the …
Feb 28
One of the worrisome concerns with wakesurf competitions, is that MOST if not all require some type of airline travel to get to. We use a hard case for most of our traveling, but still there is a risk of losing wakesurf boards or having one damaged in transit. At one of the WWCS’s that …
Feb 18
Ok, so now what? We’ve discovered and proven that there really isn’t any “push” in the propogation of a wave, despite what you read and hear and see too, it sure looks like there should be push from an ocean wave or wake. Also, there is no float in a wakesurfer wakesurf board system and …
Feb 10
As we mentioned in the previous post, the newest Flyboy Wakesurf Boards prototype has some minor changes in the shape, along with some other things. When we are messing with testing materials and construction we don’t send the core out to the CNC machine, but the final finished prototypes are. The CNC machine is great …
Feb 08
We’ve made a few changes on the latest prototype wake surf board and we think we are done on this for the ’12 season. This should give James Walker enough time to settle into it for the current year. As we eluded to in one of the previous posts we’ve made some minor changes to …
Jan 26
Over the years we’ve been critical of wakesurf boards that don’t have tow-in or cant of the fins. Then doing some research we tripped across a Tomo Surfboard. We were fortunate to have seen several of this brands boards at Sacred Craft here in Northern California in Santa Cruz. The Tomo surfboards are unique in …
Jan 10
Over the weekend we had a chance to sit back and think about composite sandwich construction and it’s application to a wakesurf board. It’s interesting that composite sandwich technology developed in airplanes back in WWII and then migrated to ship building in the 50′s about the same time that ocean surfboards started using foam and …
Jan 07
In the last post, the first in this series of repairing a damaged wakesurfer, we showed several cracks and various other damaged areas. After we have identified the visible cracks, dents, dings and UGGGHS we do a hand checks along the rails, nose and tail looking for telltale signs of other damage. Sometimes it may …
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