I guess I'm getting old when I start reposting something like this. anyways, This was a post from Larry Stanley on old school windsurfing page about where the use of the word scoop came from
Here's the scoop on how we came about "scooped" noses on one-design Windsurfers:
In 1975, for the past year or so, we had been whining to anybody who would listen that the boards were so flat it was nigh-impossible to sail in large chop or to drop in on steep waves. Warren Aitken- production manager at Windsurfing International- may have heard some of this talk. He sent us a board he had exposed to heat lamps at the factory (I don't remember why- possibly accidental) which resulted in a turned-up nose. When we Omao-house guys saw it, we were so excited we unwrapped it, did our other standard modifications to the board, and tested it the same day. That evening we got Warren on the phone and asked him to "scoop" all boards in our future shipments. Warren graciously complied and, to his credit, Hoyle let him.
Ken Kleid and I, as Windsurfing Hawaii, still had many boards that were flat, though, and therefore unsellable in Hawaii. A lot of sailors who had earlier-generation boards and had sailed a scooped one were now unsatisfied with them- "ironing boards". Thor and I tried using heat lamps to scoop boards with mixed results: uneven heating, blistered hot spots, near-meltings, and ugly wrinkled noses. We looked for a way to administer heat more evenly and came up with the black trash bag procedure (I remembered that sometime before, I had heated up a baby-pool by laying a black trash bag on the water's surface). Bingo! We got good enough at it that we could apply heat to the bottom of the board instead of the deck, which created a better transition from flat to flipped-up. There are pictures in the Windsurfing Hawaii photo album on my Facebook page of various scoopings and techniques, although I cannot find the classic one of Thor standing on the nose of one with a garden hose as he cools it off to lock in the scoop.
The picture, below, is one of my early boards with plenty scoop. "Two scoops nice". We found that it was difficult to over-scoop them for waves.
Photo by Steve Wilkings- 1975- Kuilima Point, North Shore, Oahu.
