The Future

Interesting to see that one of the big production surfboard manufacturers is offering a limited degree of customization as part of their online board ordering service, the board is still delivered to your local shop for pick up and the extra cost is pretty reasonable.

Obviously surfboard manufacture is a much bigger business than windsurfer manufacture but I would imagine it would be still possible for a brand to offer some customization of their standard shapes albeit at a greater cost and longer waiting times.

The surfboard company has put limitations on their program so you can only modify the nose, tail, max width by 1/2 inch (they recommend a max change of 1/4 inch) and up to 1/16 increase in thickness.You can the view you new design in 3D and compare it to the original. The program is supposed to tweak the other specs to maintain the integrity of the original design.

It would be cool if you could get your favourite waveboard in that slightly smaller or bigger volume or even a freestyle board customized to your own specs.



On the down side I think that there is already so much choice of high quality boards out there already and its just adding complexity to an already difficult decision, there are already well respected shapers that can make what ever shape you want.

However offering greater customization and involvement of the board buyer is definitely going to appeal to some people.

If I was to customise a waveboard I would probably just take a little bit of thickness out of my current board and have basically the same board with a big custom sticker on it to add to the coolness value.

Me at the beach " yea its basically my design, I couldn't find a production board that suited my radical style"

Agree - go custom and you get excatly what you are after!

http://nudeboards.com.au/Nude_Sailboards.html

Thanks mister Haircut! I try to keep fit but do you like the board?

Just a tip - you shouldn't drink and smoke (it stunts your growth)...