This category is specific to wakesurf boards.
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 …
Jan
06
It happens to everyone, a ding or worse in your favorite wakesurfer board. What do you do, toss it an buy a new one? It would be great to be made of money, but if your like most of us, it’s time to repair the old favorite. We’ve covered how to repair a ding. We’ve …
Dec
14
If you’ve been following along we did a test of a super thin composite sandwich wakesurf boards and liked certain aspects of the way it rode. It also had some unwanted flex, so we’re back to the drawing board on that project, but it caused us to pause for a moment. That super thin design is …
Dec
07
So we’ve been harping on a number of wakesurfer issues and if you’ve been following along you’re most likely sick-and-tired of them. One is this concept of push vs fall and the other is how that effects wakesurfer design. We’ve made an argument that MOST, but not all, wakesurf boards are planing as they skim …
Dec
06
We posted up a thread awhile back where we talked about NOT subscribing to the theory that there was a “pushing” force with wakesurfing. We tend to feel that the feeling is “falling” and not being pushed at all, because we are of the opinion that wakesurf boards are planning and therefore are not subjected …
Nov
30
In our last post we talked about super thin and light weight wakesurf boards. You literally can’t find 1/8th wakesurf boards but we demonstrated it can be done. We aren’t advocating the use of such thin boards, only that it can be achieved and we think it past time to investigate thinner and lighter wakesurf …
Nov
29
Have you noticed how much stuff is hyped? It’s the biggest, best, the only one ever. Most of us get to a point where we just expect that. Where the next marketing message will be “whatever” is THE BEST and will make YOU “the best” also. Yeah right! What seems to be common also is …
Nov
12
We’ve been working with Stretch Surfboards to finalize a Quad wakesurfer. Over the last year the FlyBoy twinzer has been the focus of lots of critical acclaim, but at the same time, it is looking like most of the tricks the wakesurf boards are capable of allowing you to do are being handicapped, basically the …
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