It is just over 15 feet so it will comply with WPA racing regulations.

With luck it will be the world’s fastest flatwater board and will allow a learning curve with the training wheels.

I’ll let y’all know in a few weeks

what shapes are they ? & when do you bring them up for public sale ?
Ta Geoff ( mad SB SUPer , home break piha Auckland New Zealand)

This past week, Surfings Ohana said farewell to a very special uncle, Donald Takayama. His skills and talent, both in and out of the water, were marked by flawless craftsmanship and by beautiful, ingenious and delicate execution. But Donald create more than just the most exquisite surfboards. He lived Aloha and gave from the heart in everything he did and he touched more lives than he could have ever imagined. And he touched mine and I am a better person for having known him. This will be his true ongoing legacy. It is a privilege to have shared his special friendship for over 20 years and I will miss him greatly.

To share from “a cousin”, Cori Schumacher,

“Donald. You wondered about your legacy. It is not made of balsa, redwood, or foam. `Anakala – Uncle, your legacy is made up of flesh and bone.”

Mahalo nui loa Konala, A hui hou kakou, Kepano

Here is the stoke technique analysis video from last Wednesday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJHFldDc3dA

And here are the results:
http://racesplitter.com/races/B3F71ABF8

For updates on the weekly time trials, please visit:
http://zenwaterman.blogspot.com/2012/10/weekly-time-trials-in-hawaii-kai-video.html

Have you had the opportunity to compare the bullet14 with the Dennis Pang 14′. Also the boardworks version’s bottom shape is described differently than the hollow Tiger construction. I was wanting to know which board is more user friendly.

Thanks, Keith

The guys at Boardsports in Toronto were really helpful and asked me a ton of questions before recommending it. I weighed around 190 then, and intended to use it almost entirely for cruising and training. We just don’t have many surfable waves near Toronto.

Compared to the beefy boards we now use for lessons at our SUP school, the Amundson is light. And even though it feels fragile by comparison, it’s stood up to the other boards and it’s still in really great condition.

The only thing I can’t comment on is how it surfs, but maybe someone else can add to this review.

I don’t know much about Diana Nyad, but Wikipedia tells us that she departed Bimini Island on August 21, 1979, and landed at Juno Beach, Florida, 27 hours and 30 minutes later. As a matter of fact, she was still in the news last year with her repeated attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida at age 62.

As to Yvon Le Caer whose biography and cycling performances on land and sea I know better, he took off from Cat Cay Island (located 8 miles South of Bimini Island) on July 8, 1981, at 11:45 pm and landed on Dania Beach, Florida, after only 10 hours & 50 minutes at sea. Later on, in September of 1985, Yvon pedaled AquaCycle across the Westernmost English Channel, from Cherbourg (France) to Poole (England), for a distance of 92 miles (148 km) in 16 hours & 42 minutes. His website http://yvonlecaer.com/ and his Facebook page entitled “Pedal Power across Florida Straits & English Channel” offer an impressive chronicle of his sea cycling exploits that earned him a Guinness World Record. Unfortunately, Yvon’s athletic career was cut short in 1986 by a hit-and-run driver while training on Key Biscayne, Florida.

If my intention was primarily to pay tribute to these two super athletes who have left their marks, I also congratulate Bill Whiddon & Thaddeus Foote for their recent successful crossing on stand-up paddle boards.

We ended purchasing an NSP 11′ board which is great for now… next year my husband will take this over and I will get my own… recommendations for that would be great too!

Thanks!