Australia - you're standing in it
I’ve still got twin phobia….im trying to get over it but nope….thruster.and quads ok too…..not willing to gamble the $$$ on something I didn’t like years ago….i do realise they are better now…..and see some great surfing on them….but tail fins ….love em as I push hard out of turns.
And the best beer I ever had was Eumundi lager on tap at the Eumundi pub when it first came out during a Noosa mission many years ago.
Now, if I just see a coopers pale ale on tap I’m pretty grateful for the simple things.
Optimist wrote:I’ve still got twin phobia….im trying to get over it but nope….thruster.and quads ok too…..not willing to gamble the $$$ on something I didn’t like years ago….i do realise they are better now…..and see some great surfing on them….but tail fins ….love em as I push hard out of turns.
And the best beer I ever had was Eumundi lager on tap at the Eumundi pub when it first came out during a Noosa mission many years ago.
Now, if I just see a coopers pale ale on tap I’m pretty grateful for the simple things.
Fair comments. When you’ve got quite larger fins in a twinnie their drive power allows for no need of a rear fin, alas, each to their own. I do love quads also. AW
Brother Brutus told me about a new thing he was working on a fair while ago.
He said it was a Swiss Army knife of boards…it could be ridden in all fin combos.
I didn’t listen and now regret not getting one as he is a master of design.
I would guess that the board he was talking about is his new VEECON3
I watched a you tube on it and it looked awesome.
I’ve also seen a clip of the old boy riding one.
I’m good for boards at present but I’ve got my eye on that one.
I like the fact that it comes in all sizes for all ages and wave sizes ….and can ride it as a twin or thruster ..quad …etc etc.
^^ anglesea surf shop had a full size range at Christmas @optimist, check out their Instagram a/c if you’re on it … super sharp rails under the board top to toe
Optimist wrote:Brother Brutus told me about a new thing he was working on a fair while ago.
He said it was a Swiss Army knife of boards…it could be ridden in all fin combos.
I didn’t listen and now regret not getting one as he is a master of design.
I would guess that the board he was talking about is his new VEECON3
I watched a you tube on it and it looked awesome.
I’ve also seen a clip of the old boy riding one.
I’m good for boards at present but I’ve got my eye on that one.
I like the fact that it comes in all sizes for all ages and wave sizes ….and can ride it as a twin or thruster ..quad …etc etc.
Optimist. A lot of boards have that multi set up.
I’m good for boards at present, but always looking for one. AW
Optimist wrote:Brother Brutus told me about a new thing he was working on a fair while ago.
He said it was a Swiss Army knife of boards…it could be ridden in all fin combos.
I didn’t listen and now regret not getting one as he is a master of design.
I would guess that the board he was talking about is his new VEECON3
I watched a you tube on it and it looked awesome.
I’ve also seen a clip of the old boy riding one.
I’m good for boards at present but I’ve got my eye on that one.
I like the fact that it comes in all sizes for all ages and wave sizes ….and can ride it as a twin or thruster ..quad …etc etc.
Might have been the Shiva model also.
Nope it was a flyer model with a swallow he was talking about so it’d be the new veecon3….wasn't that long ago …..the flyer bit scared me as I’m usually a smooth continuous rail guy personally …..but now after watching the video I understand the science of the fluted flyer…
Looks the goods for sure…..his boards are fast…..his signature hard rails keep the water under the board for speed …and the vee bottoms stop the boards rails catching in the turns.
Aren’t MR’s 1980 Twinnies vee bottom, fluted flyers with a hard bottom edge rail nose to tail?
Optimist wrote:Nope it was a flyer model with a swallow he was talking about so it’d be the new veecon3….wasn't that long ago …..the flyer bit scared me as I’m usually a smooth continuous rail guy personally …..but now after watching the video I understand the science of the fluted flyer…
Looks the goods for sure…..his boards are fast…..his signature hard rails keep the water under the board for speed …and the vee bottoms stop the boards rails catching in the turns.
Wasnt that only plugged for Thruster ?
Oddly enough our early Simon thruster has hard edge nose to tail - maybe the MR board had influence??
Rode MC edges a lot in early 2000s, like them for quick whip side to side, they seem to free up the large concave.
Udo, that one certainly is….maybe that’s the latest final outcome he’s happy with, or maybe the standard British production boards are thrusters.
I’m sure you can have a five fin in anything he does as long as he recommends it so……it was about 18 months ago when I spoke to him…
Guy has seen the current veecon 3 rack boards in vicco….i wonder what boxes they have.?
Maybe the flutes is a newer addition idea and do away with need for a 4 fin board due to the extra grip….
Plenty more on there Insta Page Opti ...
garyg1412 wrote:A Salty Dog wrote:As for ripping off the system, fraudulent claims are seen as a national sport, but in reality you are only stealing from other taxpayers.
I think it was an international sport back in the 80's Salty. From memory the Bob Hawke Surf Team played a lot of aggro matches in the J-Bay arena!!
Ha!!!
Would have loved to have played, but I was out injured with a mortgage and two kids!!!
^^ classic @Salty
Pop corn ready to go.....
From the Age today ^^ @Andy-Mac …. She wants to make more moneeeeyyy
Dutton’s dirty deeds done dirt cheap
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has made a private pledge to review a “golden ticket” visa for wealthy investors who commit $5 million to enter Australia, after Labor scrapped the program last year over fears it brought spies and criminals into the country.
Dutton aired his plan at a Liberal Party fundraiser when a migration agent urged him to restore the significant investor visa, a pathway for hundreds of rich migrants over the past decade but a target for criticism over who received fast-track status.
The private remark was revealed when the migration agent, Min Li, posted a video of the event to Chinese social media platform RedNote with a description of the “cosy” drinks with the Liberal leader to help him win the election.
Dutton revealed his thinking when Li asked him in the video to restore the significant investor visa, as donors shared drinks to raise money for the Liberal campaign.
……. it continues
Dutton, who was the senior cabinet minister in charge of migration from 2014 to 2021, praised the significant investor visa while campaigning in Melbourne on Saturday to celebrate Lunar New Year, joining events with the Chinese community in the electorate of Menzies.
Asked by a Nine News reporter if he would restore the visa, he said: “As immigration minister, I brought in a record number of people through different visa programs, and we did it in a responsible way. The significant investment visa provides an opportunity for people to invest capital.”
But the privileged entry program, known as the subclass 188 visa, has been criticised for selling fast entry and doing little for the economy.
One of the people who gained entry, property investor Huang Xiangmo, was later blocked from returning after Australian officials declared him unfit to hold an Australian passport and cancelled his permanent residency.
The visa was also a source of business for failed company iProsperity, which attracted overseas investors but collapsed in 2020 owing $325 million.
The Productivity Commission told the government the visa was “prone to fraud” and only required recipients to spend 40 days a year on average in Australia, which meant it was effectively a non-resident permanent visa.
“Overall, the case for retaining the significant and premium investor visa programs is weak and the government should abolish these visas,” the commission said nine years ago.
Li, who is also known as Sandra Li, told this masthead that investors were going to New Zealand, Canada, Singapore and other countries because they could not get to Australia, which meant Australia did not get the investment.
“If the door is shut, then they go somewhere else,” she said.
While Li said she paid for the dinner at the Liberal function in Sydney, she said she did not make a donation to the party. Political parties can sometimes record payments at events as “other receipts” or as donations when they lodge their financial returns at the Australian Electoral Commission.
The "I can't believe it's not politics" thread.