Pics from todays demo day and down-winder.

[DavidJohn]

I knew Aidan from Naish was in town so I stopped off to check out the action at St Kilda before our down-winder today.

It looked like the PT Cruiser was giving the SupBus (van) a jump start.



The Naish boards looked good.. The weather looked awful.. unless you're doing a down-winder.



Nice deck pad on the new 11'4" Nalu.. if you're a hippie.



The new Naish paddles looked very nice.



This is the new 8" next to the new 7".. It's great to see Naish doing smaller blades.



The new RipCurl boards looks pretty good.. The big 11'6" was an old SouthPoint Kalama with RipCurl stickers.



I liked the retro RipCurl sticker.. Reminds me of my days on the RipCurl team.





A lull in the wind and someone decides to demo a 10' Mana.. wearing a hoodie.. Was it cold.. Yeah.



Moments later a 40 knot gust heads down the beach and you can see the dark line coming across the water.. then boards were flying down the beach.



We then headed off on our down-winder and about an hour later stopped off at Green Point so we could all regroup.




One of the windsurfing guys wanted to have a go on a stand up board for the first time and took the Naish 14 for a spin.. and he was hooked.



The wind really kicked to over 40 knots and turned slightly offshore and Paul had to resort to knee paddling to get around the corner.



My Naish 14 and Paul's 12'6" Pin on the roof of Paul's PT Cruiser.

DJ

[SoCalSupper]

love the old school Rip Curl-remember Off Shore DJ?-any day now i expect to see Off Shore-Stubbies-OP-JimmyZ-Hang Ten etc.. getting into SUP!
I am tempted to feather my hair-bust out the knee high striped socks and rock my baby blue OP short cords!-and dont forget the terry-cloth lightning bolt one button collared shirt-Hell Yeah!

[pdxmike]

Thanks--I always enjoy your photos. 

What is the purpose of the indentation in the Naish blade on the right?

[DavidJohn]

love the old school Rip Curl-remember Off Shore DJ?-any day now i expect to see Off Shore-Stubbies-OP-JimmyZ-Hang Ten etc.. getting into SUP!
I am tempted to feather my hair-bust out the knee high striped socks and rock my baby blue OP short cords!-and dont forget the terry-cloth lightning bolt one button collared shirt-Hell Yeah!

Yeah.. The good old days.. 

DJ

[DavidJohn]

Thanks--I always enjoy your photos. 

What is the purpose of the indentation in the Naish blade on the right?

Thanks.. I think the idea of the cut out in the base of the Naish blade is to help reduce the area at the tip making it a softer bite at the start of the stroke.

They say it also works like a dihedral to help stop flutter by making the water flow off the blade through that cutout rather than off each side.

I also think it's a 'look' thing.. 

DJ