Just watched the Clint Robinson video Rob posted to the Surfski Info Facebook page.
For me it poses the question- How much innovation is left in surf skis? Especially in the elite category. They can't be made much longer or narrower and modern designers must've squeezed just about all they can out of hull shapes.
At the end of the day Dean Gardiner still holds the Molokai record on a slightly modified spec Burton ski which he set around 18 years ago. It must've been an awesome downwind day that day but, in the ensuing 18 years with the advances in skis and the materials used to build skis, I thought it would've been broken by now.
Any way just food for thought.
For me it poses the question- How much innovation is left in surf skis? Especially in the elite category. They can't be made much longer or narrower and modern designers must've squeezed just about all they can out of hull shapes.
At the end of the day Dean Gardiner still holds the Molokai record on a slightly modified spec Burton ski which he set around 18 years ago. It must've been an awesome downwind day that day but, in the ensuing 18 years with the advances in skis and the materials used to build skis, I thought it would've been broken by now.
Any way just food for thought.