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Joined: 23 Jul 2008
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Location: Seattle, Wa
Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:43 pm
Post subject: Video - Longboards can still be exciting.
Longboards can still be exciting - at least to me !!
I've been sailing longboards for over 30 years, bought my first one in '81 (yes, I was a kid
I've been sailing shortboards since '84... that was my first trip to the Gorge, when I learned how to waterstart. I have several shortboards that I like.
But I still like longboards. The raceboards (Equipe, MegaCat, Lightning, Bamba) between '90 & '95 were I think the best all around hi-performance design and build quality, of them all.
Here's a video from a blustery day in Seattle, last May. I'm pretty familiar with sailing raceboards in different winds... but this sail was brand new to me at the time. I had it rigged for low-end power, but the wind ended up being stronger than I expected, so I was way over-powered. Anyway, although I don't seem-to-be way OP'd in this... believe me, I was
Lastly, it's a shame they can't make similar quality boards these days. This '93 F2 Lightning raceboard is all original and doesn't have any cracks or dents in it. It has been sailed for 30 years, from light winds to pounding chop, saltwater and freshwater.... with sails from 3M to 11M... by people of all different sizes (I'm 200, ok, 205 now)... it's been bumped into rocks and parking lots, tons of times... and loaded on and off roof racks on several different cars... and bumped around in many different garages. It's original shape is intact, there are no soft-spots, the adjustable mast-track works like new, as does the big carbon centerboard. It has the original CB gaskets, which are perfect (why can't the new raceboards, just copy the gaskets that Mistral, Bic, Fanatic and F2 used in '93). The original fin and finbox are like new, except the fin has gouges and nicks.
This board (249L and 12'4") weighs 30# stripped and 38# with straps, fin, centerboard, etc. like you see it here. Same weight as in '93, it hasn't taken on any water.
This board is worth $3000 to me... cause that's what it would cost to replace it with a new raceboard from Starboard or Exocet. The problem is, although those boards are very cool... and would "usually beat this one" in a race... WILL either of them still be sailable 30 years from now?
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 8:38 pm
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definitely looks like fun, especially considering it is about 15F outside right now. That looks like a nice low wind combo. What sail is that? I loved my twincam 9.5M last year with my longboard but my board is a lower performance version which is at least similarly indestructible and old.
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:28 pm
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rangerider wrote:
definitely looks like fun, especially considering it is about 15F outside right now. That looks like a nice low wind combo. What sail is that? I loved my twincam 9.5M last year with my longboard but my board is a lower performance version which is at least similarly indestructible and old.
I'd just purchased that "used sail" a week before this session. It's a Sailworks 10.5M Retro.
I put a bunch of "info labels" on the video, using Youtube's video editor, and in one of them, I say what sail and board I'm using.
Anyway, I've learned from Youtube, that you can only see those labels if people watch it on a computer. If you watch it on a smart ph. you don't see those labels... I don't know why.
It looks way better on a computer anyway
And, that 2 cam 9.5 you have will probably be a very decent sail for a longboard. If it's a newer design, like this 2003 Retro I'm using... they'll tell you to downhaul it like crazy. And that's fine for planing shortboards... but for longboards, you want power. And that means, a tighter leech, not a loose leech. So experiment with moderate downhaul and outhaul, to see if you get more power in light winds. And sure, if it's WINDY, than downhaul that thing so you can control it.
The day from this vid... I had much more wind than expected. And I would've done much better with a lot more downhaul (or a smaller sail, would've been the best). Of course, with lots more downhaul, I wouldn't have the power to move my 205 lbs and this raceboard in winds under 10 knots... like I do when it's rigged fuller.
Greg -
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Posted: Tue Mar 19, 2013 9:49 pm
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My 9.5 is amazingly stable in gusts - I was just blown away with how controllable it was compared to my other sails. You didn't appear to be fighting the sail at all in the video but 10.5 is a big sail.
if it's windy I use smaller sails, I pretty much leave the 9.5 rigged for low wind but have sailed it in some gusty conditions. I would like to have a performance longboard / raceboard at some time. I am planning to get a windsup this summer to teach others to windsurf and also do some SUPing with on no wind days - I hope it is fun to sail with the 9.5 when I can't get the XCite-ride 145L planing.
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 4:18 am
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Brilliant Greg. Some of us echo all you say about what we have lost in terms of construction, durability, and sheer allround usability in board design since those peak years, now so long ago. My Ace-Tec Bamba, despite all the knocks it has taken over 20+ years, will probably outlast me. (And the mast track won't be allowed to pull out ever again!)
With regard to back foot in straps on old racing boards, that is one area where my 'modern' Kona 1 (now quite old itself) really does score. Admittedly, it's more an all round funboard than an out and out racer, but with tweaked fin and straps to match my weight and size (180 lbs and 6'3") it is extremely comfortable planing in them. The board may even have that old durability built in? (So far, so good.)
I only wish the best version of the Phantom could be built with all that expertise and first class materials from those halcyon days of old. I'd buy one tomorrow, regardless of cost!
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 10:33 am
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rangerider - Yeah, I'm like you... when it's windy I use smaller sails (and boards) too. The day of "this video"... I didn't expect this much wind. And I was very excited to try out the big used Retro I just got. I've had an Aerotech 11 M Jumbo race sail for a long time, which is the best, for light winds... that I always use for light wind racing. But I wanted to try this newer designed 10.5 Retro in slightly higher stuff. It's not as powerful as the 11M in very light winds... but I knew it would handle 10-20 stuff better.
Anyway, in the 15-25 mph winds I had... the big Retro was very backwinded whenever it was above 20 (we had a few short gusts to 30 that evening). So, to keep the sail from crashing down onto me (when it got backwinded) I had to push away hard with the front hand. Yeah, the Retro could've used more downhaul... then it wouldn't have backwinded as much. But then, I'd lose low wind power.
Oh well... it all worked out... and became a cool little adventure.
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 11:46 am
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Greg, your video, music, comments, and editing brought us along with you without even having to drive and rig. I sold my last longboard decades ago, and you brought back memories, all of them good, of the whole genre. One biggie is the ease with with one can slog a longboard back as long as there's one knot left in the wind.
Example, in case you want to try it: try getting some air even on perfectly flat water when barely planing simply by lifting the entire windward rail so the wind can get under it as you then suck both feet up under you.
Another inefficient but fun cruising stunt with all them feetstraps on them boards is, on a board like my Equipe with two or three in-line back straps on the centerline: put your two feet in the two rearmost straps, even though they're designed for back foots only. The nose comes up, so the planing threshold increases, but in the puffs there's little more than fin in the water. It's probably not the fastest path from A to B, but it is something different, usually welcome on flat water.
Mike \m/
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 6:15 pm
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Well, to each his own......
I'm about your vintage (64 long years), started on shortboards in '83, owned Equipes, Lightnings, Cats, Christman's, and Seatrend long boards.
Looks boring, going in a straight line for 10 miles.
And build quality, are you kidding me? Every finbox, every mastrack, every gasket, some footstrap plugs, most daggerboard wells, FAIL, within one season. Not to mention split seams, delamed decks, ......
I was 145 lbs mostly in those days. I guess I"m just to strong and big for those euro trash boards to hold up.
And amongst the BayArea raceboard crew, we all were constantly working on the underbuilt overhyped long boards.
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:38 pm
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wow dude, you must be super hardcore.
my old equipe is 20 yrs old, still going fine.
(although, the seams on my megacat are finally starting to come apart.
and its only 19years old.)
greg..awesome video!..nothing like being powered with 12' of board under your feet.!
just a different kind of ride.
i like longboards.
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Posted: Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:50 pm
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Every single sailor who raced on longboards constantly worked on their boards, all the things I said, and I'm sure, + some more.
EuroTrash boards are for sailing on weekends, in light breezes, and to look cool atop your car.
And all of us had multiple shortboards, wave, bump, and slalom, to complement the occasional use in a raceboard course race.
Doubt most of us even sailed our raceboards more than 50 days a year, as time is needed to use the other boards, and sailing an Equipe at ebb tide CrissyFields in 24-35 mph winds are just not the smartest ideas ever thought of.
The longboards were pretty good for sailing at Berkeley, and even there, everyone needed to tuttle the fin box's, replaces the gaskets, fix the tracks that broke every two weeks, replace inserts, fix delams and split rails constantly after the 2 month honeymoon period.
God help the big boyz like BradDuffy (245 lbs.), FerrisHamilton (235), or DaveLeahrs (245). They broke boards during practice before the first heat.
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- Nature Nut /JJ Loch said...
Great post. Our community lost soldiers in Viet Nam. One minute they were at a high school dance and the next minute they were gone.
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• http://www.tessgerritsen.co.uk/
The blood animation is really cool!
http://www.tessgerritsen.com/index.html - and like the way she uses the homepage just for her pic and a current 'advert'.
• http://www.michaelconnelly.com/
Like this banner too. Very generic for all books.
About me
I'm an Australian crime fiction author trying to break into a competitive field and make an impact. I want readers to be able to come to my site and find out about me, my current news, other book titles, etc. You can find out more about me at:
At the most basic level I need:
- A new banner, maybe with two different versions - a larger one for the homepage and a smaller one for the content pages.
- A new menu system design that can accommodate a larger menu system than the current site design and that can also be added to in the future (by me) using a CMS.
- Mock-ups of the major types of content pages.
- All graphical elements need to be cut up, ready to go for my web programmer – WINNER only. The design should be dark and/or mysterious in some way to tie in with the crime fiction theme. Ideally, "PD Martin" should be written in similar font/s to my book covers. Not all covers are on my website at the moment - please email firstname.lastname@example.com if you'd like to see all of them. Also, different countries are using different fonts, but it would be good to pick up one of them.
To help in the design process, below is a DETAILED breakdown of each page that may have slightly different layouts.
- a homepage - with subscribe area and latest 2-3 news stories/headlines and maybe graphical links to my facebook and crimespace pages
- general content pages
- news & events section/pages (the current system will need to be changed to archive news by year, so the design will need to cover this)
- Each news page should have the ability to include an image (like http://www.pdmartin.com.au/news.asp?id=62
- A blog page
- A subscribe page that uses radio buttons or checkboxes so users decide what they're subscribing to:
1. News & events
2. Blog
3. Other site updates/changes
- A page for all the different book covers (like
http://www.karinslaughter.com/foreign.shtml) although I'll probably just use this basic layout/idea anyway so maybe this could fit under the general content page design(?)
- Photo gallery page(s) with index system to allow for expansion
- A video sub-menu page that display videos - maybe just grabs/still of the video and then click on it to play.
- FAQs page - redesigned to cope with large number currently in there. I'm going to split this section into author questions and reader questions and then archive previous years. Note this section also needs to cater for Post a question and this should be more prominent than current page.
- Scrolling reviews on pages like Michael Robotham's site: http://www.michaelrobotham.com/aus/index.htmNew proposed site structure
- Homepage
- "About" with sub-menu items of PD Martin, Sophie Anderson, My publishers and My blog
- "Books" with sub-menu items of Body Count, The Murderers' Club, Fan Mail, The Killing Hands, Book 5, Meaner than Fiction, Around the globe, Signed copies & bookplates and Buy
- "News & events" with sub-menu items 2008, 2007, 2006 and 2005
- "Media" with sub-menu items Reviews, Interviews, Photo Gallery, Videos, Audio and For the media
- FAQs with sub-menu items of Author and Readers. "Readers" also needs to feature archive system
- Links
- Contact
- html coding
- a design that features my books in the banners (and will therefore date)
- A corporate feel - I'm hoping for something more artistic and 'sinister'!


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In a time where tragedies like the recent events in Newtown are occurring far too frequently, ICON takes it upon himself to dissect our society's misguidance on his new single, 'Find A Way'. The Cali wordsmith stays true to form with an impressive lyrical display, while addressing matters he feels are plaguing us. ICON connects with Slovenian producer, Cazzafura, to provide a soulful bed of music that perfectly complements the message-driven track.
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It's only a month away from the AIDS Walk here in Portland. A few months ago, I wrote a post about my friend Alazar who is an amazing kid trying to raise money for the Cascade AIDS Project. He asked me to send out a reminder that there's still time to donate to the wonderful cause. Here is the interview I did with this amazing kid!
Lisa: Tell me a little bit about yourself Alazar.
Alazar: My name is Alazar Manning and I'm 11 years old. I like all the normal kids' stuff,
from playing basket to riding bikes or my scooter! My favorite subjects in school are math and science. I like it when my Dad and I read together too! My favorite things to read about right now are dragon books.
Lisa: So tell me a little bit about your Cascade AIDS Fundraising efforts.
Alazar: Well it started 4 years ago when a close family friend became infected with HIV. The goal of my first walk was to raise $200 but I ended up raising $800. I was a little discouraged because things didn't turn out like I planned, but my Dad says we don't give up. The next year I had my own team, the A-Team, and my goal was to raise $1,000 but I raised $2,100 and I was the top Youth Fundraiser. And last year, my goal was to raise $9,000 and I raised $9,100 dollars and was the top fundraiser for both youth and adults – – thanks to the generosity of so many people!
Lisa: Tell me about your blog and why you have it.
Alazar: My blog site is: The A-Team Fund.
I decided last year that I wanted to raise awareness that HIV is spreading almost 8 times faster in the black community than the white community, and it is totally preventable. My motto for the blog is to: Be Smart. Get Tested. Have Safe Behaviors! I found that most adults don't want to talk about HIV, especially with a kid like me, because they think I don't know enough. I have all the facts, but just not all the life experiences yet!
So my blog is a way of communicating with a larger audience about HIV. Last year I had over 4,000 blog hits. And this year so far, I've had over 700 hits and we are still 5 months away from the Walk! This year too, I have had visitors from other countries read my blog, and that's way cool!
Lisa: What are your goals for this year?
Alazar: I have three goals this year… 1) Raise $10,000 2) Continue to raise awareness from my blog that HIV is totally preventable and 3) Raise more money than my friend and the Executive Director of CAP!!
Way to go Alazar! I'm so proud of you. Don't forget that the AIDS walk is on September 23, 2012. Check your local area if you want to walk, too.


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WASHINGTON – Arizona earned a D in a national report Wednesday that graded states on their families' financial security in five broad categories.
The report by the Corporation for Enterprise Development said 45 percent of families in Arizona were "liquid-asset poor" – meaning low savings left them vulnerable to a financial shock like the loss of a job.
It was just one element in the financial asset and income measure in the report, which also looked at education, jobs, health care and home ownership. This is the sixth report, which first came out in 2002.
Being liquid-asset poor "is not a problem that is limited for just a small segment of the poorest Americans," said Jennifer Brooks, director of state and local policy for Corporation for Enterprise Development. "This reaches into the middle class."
In Arizona, Brooks said, 25 percent of people making between $52,000 and $87,000 in Arizona don't have three months of savings, as the recession has forced people to dip into their bank accounts.
The average Arizonan also has $12,038 in credit card debt, $1,300 more than the national rate, according to the report.
"That has consequences not just for what can you do today to make ends meet and to save for emergencies, but also about opportunities to build long-term assets," Brooks said.
Another factor counting against Arizona is the relatively high number of "unbanked" households, or those that do not have a savings or checking account. Arizona's rate of 11.6 percent was the fourth-highest in the nation.
Andrea Whitsett, project manager for Arizona Indicators in the Morrison Institute for Public Policy, said many elements in the report were not surprising. But the high credit card debt and unbanked rates were both interesting, since they touched what "we would think of as higher-earning families."
"It's pretty scary to think that, for even some of our, quote-unquote, more-secure families, employed families, that if suddenly they have a health crisis, they have job loss, that they're suddenly in dire straits," Whitsett said.
Cynthia Zwick, executive director of the Arizona Community Action Association, said Wednesday's report just reaffirmed the problems Arizona has had for several years.
"Unfortunately it's exactly what I expected," Zwick said. "That doesn't mean I'm not disappointed."
For the liquid-asset poor in Arizona, Zwick said security is essential. Not having cash available in case of an emergency can throw families into a financial tailspin.
"Even a small amount of money in savings is important for a family that doesn't make much," Zwick said.
She said two of the biggest problems in Arizona are education – not all kids in the state get schooling that prepares them for college – and fair full-time employment that can sustain a family.
Education was just one of the areas where Arizona did poorly: The state ranked 48th for the percentage of bachelor's degrees among non-whites, and last for student-loan defaults.
The state's overall worst category was in health care where it ranked 45th, dragged down by a high average employee premiums and a high percentage of uninsured low-income children – both 49th nationally. Arizona ranked 39th for the percentage of people without health insurance.
Arizona's highest grade came for housing and homeownership, where it got a B. That grade was boosted by top-12 rankings for the number of non-white homeowners, the low percentage of high-cost mortgages, low-income homeowners and the number of one-parent homes.
In addition to measuring states' woes, the report also calls for policy changes it says will help give families a safety net.
The report gave Arizona credit for instituting a direct-lending program last year for first-time homebuyers.
"Policy sets the rules of the game," Brooks said. "It encourages certain behaviors like homeownership and discourages others like asset limits."
But, she said there were still a lot of areas where the state could help, including encouraging savings and providing tax credits so people can hang on to more money.