Anyone got any reports on the new Watercooled 11'? Made by Surftech as is the Laird and seems a very reasonable price.
Do you have a pic or a link?
I used to know Kym Thompson (Watercooled shaper and owner)..I've windsurfed and surfed with him and even been to his house at Jan Juc..
He's a very nice guy..He now also shapes for GSI..Southpoint..(the guys that do the Kalama SUP)..but there's no info about a KT SUP on their site...
( http://www.surfindustries.com/products/southpointKThompson.html )
Kym makes really nice long board and used to make pretty good windsurfers many moons ago..so I'm sure he'd make a great SUP.
I'll suss things out with Rich from Strapper..He might know something.
DJ
Looks very nice and fast, are you going to get a deckpad or just use wax? Be a shame to cover the super sleek design. How wide/thin/heavy is it?
I'd like to see a few more SUBs come standard with a carry handle or plugs so you can use the paddle to carry it. Because of their size I find they can be pretty awkward to transport, without some sort of carrying device - especially if there is a bit of wind. I guess you could always get a strap to carry the beast.
Yeah, a fair bit heavier. I reckon around 16kg.
I do love her though, she's ugly and I can treat her like a slut, beat her, throw her on rocks and stuff, and she still loves me. 
I do wonder how long she will put up with me?
Watching steamroller and from what I've heard in the UK forums, I believe the uli surfs surprisingly well. I'd love to hear one day what you pro's think of it.
DJ, you brought back some memories of my youth - surfing was always way too cool for me.
I was never into pulling bucket bongs, mixing Brandavino with sea water, making curtains out of beer can ring pulls for the Sandman or interested in going through a pointless apprenticeship as a grommet learning the ways of the surf and etiquite. I often found the attitude of many cool surfers very twee and narrow. Too bad many of these people now are fat, bald and suffer from depression.
Because of these experiences growing up around other surfers I'm kind of enjoying the fact that their popular surf breaks have become overcrowded with christian goat boarders, body surfers, boogie boarders, wind surfers, stand up paddle boarders, and geeks on inflatables who can't surf.
Hey Oliver...I can't wait till we get some really good days in the surf together.
Today in the end when John and I were tired, cold and packing up it was great to see you still out there having fun in the waves all by yourself trying again and again to catch a good one.
I can see it means a lot to you to learn how to surf and I have no doubt that you will get there..btw..It's not about being cool..It's about the stoke...and you have it my friend...
DJ
I want to learn to surf to out do some of the dancing routines I've seen from greenroom and wendy. I've got a couple of routines in mind. However, so far I've only been able to do "the toyota" - still need a bit of practice though.
...Good one Oliver...I can see you doing the coffin ride...
I remember reading a surfing book when I was a kid and they talked about some guy getting caught by huge whitewater and getting swallowed up...and then suddenly re appearing and coming out of the whitewater...laying flat on the board..on his back..and feet first.
That must have looked so cool.....These big SUP boards would be great for that kind of stuff.
DJ
Ah "The Toyota"
You need to be heading out through the break and use an oncoming wave as a ramp
This allows for maximum boostage
Yeah DJ, I think I'm starting to understand this thread - never made any sense to me when I first read it: www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37634
Never been one to put another mans lady down, but dj gotta agree with you. In solid waves over head high uli has no rail to hold, you would be sliding and drifting all over shop, love olivers attitude though and he does seem keen to give the old girl ago and i like the way he said he can treat her hard and she handles it, if his down my way sometime with the biatch i will give her a solid seeing to for him and see how she handles the big ones
I'm a bit of a wax man at heart. Have deck pad on my latest board which is super functional but I don't think I care that much to whack it onto a new board that doesn't have it.
The hand holes like in the Naish are great. This board is fairly light and thin so doesn't seem to bad to get the fingers around.
