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Pepe , your back 
Those fins look very shallow and angry .
They look 15 cm deep .
Are you sailing on dry land , a wet football field possibly ? 
It's our turn for summer up here in the norther hemisphere.
Re: boats. I replaced an old fishing boat with a somewhat newer one for fishing on the Columbia. The main requirement was that it had to fit in my garage. So, when it is not blowing, I go out and chase salmon and walleye. (Yes, we do get no-wind days on the Columbia during the summer.)
looks like next winters project has been acquired.
found an 8' steve o'donnell mal shaped in the early 80's at hot buttered. single concave into v.
thought it would be a good roughed up board for byron but it needs a lot of work so wont be getting wet for a while.
Saw someone on the forums a while back putting printed graphics on their boards.... what material do you guys use?
Been through it all Dar so my findings:
You can print on rice paper yourself but its a pain in the arse.
Firstly looking for printable rice paper will mostly get you what cake makers use and its a synthetic icing crap and nothing like actual rice paper that surf guys use (ie goes clear with resin). Cake place ladies will argue to til their blue in the face that its rice paper and it bloody well is not. Its not rice, its not cellulose.
So you can buy the real rice paper but only in massive rolls, not A4 pieces.
So you can try rice paper from the asian supermarket but it is (1) textured so it looks like it used to be 200yrs ago when they made it on woven straw mates of some crap. (2) much thicker.
It works but you have to flatten it for ages under a bit of glass and weights, the edges want to tear so you have to tape it well to a backing sheet to run it through the printer, and after all that you discover it doe not quittttte go clear with resin.
So 2 choices:
(1) Get a surf sticker manufacturer to print your logo on rice paper, its about $100 for as many as you can fit on a A3 sheet.
(2) Order stickers on eBay. I can get a 100mm long sticker for $4. Ask them to not peel the surround off and apply transfer tape (they will be happy) and then you do that when u get it - so instead of a sticker you make a stencil by discarding the letters, and spray it on.
I've chosen the latter. Painted logo = colour choice and durable.
eg:
Fark rice paper unless you make a surfboard every few days.
i've laser cut stickyback a3 sheets from cad and used that as a template to spray paint.
So what are the factories using to do their amazing graphics?
Yeah, I also get stickers and use them as masks but hell its a lot of work to spray a few designs.
RobRock printed a mona lisa on thin paper and stick that on the bottom of his board
Companies use a plastic fantastic crap that makes repairs very very hard as it melts, peels, wont sand etc etc. I've spent days chasing an edge on Cobra graphics just to get paint to blend. Its frustrating.
There are plenty of places now that do full deck surf decals like that and its not too badly priced, $200 for a full deck I think.
Bring back the 1980's bikini girl pics on the bottom!
everyone is just chasing the cheapest method that provides the best outcome.
adding 200 in graphics is a lot of cost. thats adding 30% of the cost of the board.
most of the print people ive spoken to are geared up for large orders and not really interested in one off.
im looking into using graffiti paint with different nozzles.
on a sidrnote. i scored recently. bought 50m of 6oz volan glass, 25m of 4oz glass and a 50" wide roll of carbon fibre cloth for very little money.
Printed thin glass layer :
www.freaksoffashion.com
Based in Germany, so probably not of use to most of you but there must be something like it in Oz.
For graphics...Any printer can print on clear vinyl, It breaths and conforms with heat (if they use the good stuff). This is one Pete Ross did for me a few years back, I designed it in photo shop and he did the rest.
Recovering from having the metalwork pulled out my leg - 6 weeks off the water. Meanwhile, home music studio reno and upgrade...
Winter project #56.
Took the 4hp off my 10footer. Shoe horned a 15hp onto the custom tweaked transom. Lifted 75mm n changed angle.
First pass 21kts. Lifted the Mill another 1cm = 23kts. Bit more tweakin i reckon 25kt+ achievable. Jam that throttle n
0-23kts in 2 boat lengths. Hold onto your hats Gentlemen!! Woooohoooo!!! 
Do the local flathead appreciate that in the shallows ?
Shouldnt you use that extra time getting your lawn looking like your neighbours ?
Flathead? At 23kts i cant see em to ask em. Lawn? What lawn? I only see watersport fun.
