New 2012 Starboard SUP's, interesting new sizes.
http://store.tridentsports.com/starboard/pc/2012-Boards-Starboard-SUP-c201.htm
Interesting price for the 14' touring $9,999 thats got to have some amazing features!
Those new NRG boards will be interesting .. I assume that's Nikki Greg designs.. Also a brushed carbon K15 is a good idea and it will be interesting to see what the BOP boards are like.
DJ
Holly siht did i count right 156 boards? now that must be a importers nightmare when it comes to ordering let alone a shop trying to stock them!!!
Here's an occasional attention lapse.
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Stand-Up-Paddle/SUP/Good-Repairers-on-the-Sunshine-Coast/
I'm with the last poster.
Brian at Inside Edge can fix that easily.
Does tonnes of work on surf lifesaving craft.
Hi,
Lived half my adult life in Thailand.
Ran small group adventure tours throughout its length and breadth as well as many other countries in SouthEast Asia.
Tours were focused on using all kinds of local transport, staying in small guesthouses, homestays, hilltribe villages.
My wife is Lisu hilltribe and we to this day run a stall that uses fabric hand woven by our family memebers (when they have time off from tending crops) to sew into many different things to sell to provide money for us all.http://eumundi.alwaysinteractiveonline.com/_webapp_314894/Ozi-Lisu%20handicrafts
I speak fluent Thai and always hung out with family and Thai friends.
One of my best (Westerner) mates in Thailand used to run one of the big 3's (Billabong, Rip Curl, Quiksilver) factories.
I know the manager from one of the other big 3's factories as well.
Also lived in Phuket for a time and am familiar with Cobra and its original guise.
So the line I hear that the surftech factory in Thailand makes use of slave labour in its operations is true ? That is a very common point that is often used to bag their product. What do you mean about Cobra's original guise? What you are saying is that Thailands social fabric is becoming unravelled by industry ? Do you also think its fair to say that Thailands social fabric has also been damaged by tourism ?
For what its worth I ride Aussie made boards so I'm not out to defend products made overseas and lets face it just about everything is made overseas now.
I just cant help but think that there are a lot of myths floating around about a lot of this. i'm not calling bull**** on your experience in that country but there is a lot of emotive argument about Asian surfcraft.
One thing is not going to change and that is that the imports are here to stay but I believe there will always be a market for local board builders.
It's not slave labour and the Thai workers are paid well by Thai industry standards.
What I'm saying is that they would be happier not finding it necessary to work in these factories far from their homes.
Certainly tourism has had a huge impact and but as I said I was involved in responsible travel.
Even then I still had to reconcile the impact of tourism at this level with the fact that I was able to open peoples eyes to others simpler ways of life.
Back to Starboard's extensive new line up.....
What board is the Frog Crap? .. I heard there is a new one called the Squirt..
DJ
This thread is like Shrek.
Onions have layers.
Ogres have layers.
This thread has layers.
Shrek is green.
I don't know about any yellow crap.
But why is the new PR a trifin? It's supposed to be a board for small wave mush and for years I've read that quads are better for smallish mush to get the speed up. And Svein said in an early video that the PR worked better in all aspects in quad setup. So is this a totally new design?
I guess I'll have to get an old version before they're all gone...
