RE: RC Surfer
John,
Thanks for the encouragement.
This afternoon I totally stripped and cleaned the board.
Put a new deck seal in as the old one was looking a bit thin.
Eventually knocked the seized coupler off the motor with some pliers and a hammer, lol.
Put a new coupler and shaft in.
I didn't have any grommets or fibreglass on hand so I covered over the water ports on the bottom with some marine grade Sikaflek.
May be ok for a temporal fix, I hope.
It was off shore today and very hot, I did get a few nice clean waves @ "Point Moore" for a couple of hours this morning.
I knew something was up because the board was not handling as well as usual.
That's when I found it had a ton of water in the hull.
Anyway, it is ready for a run in the morning.
Offshores and 2 foot or so, low tide at 7:30am.
Cananzi,
As you can see from Seb's comments.
Every time you change something, something else needs attention to rebalance the entire rig.
If you find a good balance, stick with it for a while.
Even my NiMh boards do some great airs, rolls and yes even double rolls or 360 twists etc.
But all that extra power Seb has is taking it to another dimension.
He is obviously still refining his new balance.
That is probably why he asked me about the Dudes weight.
I hope he doesn't get a strengthened Dude on that spaceship of his.
Seb,
Move over Roverand let Jimi take over.
Sea ya guys.
JIMI
(Geraldton W. A.)