Another Aussie Cutting-Edge Board of the Future...?

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 1:41 pm

OMG! That thing must win some kind of award for being the stick you would be most embarrassed to be seen with!

JohnS · Post by **JohnS** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:05 pm

Didn't Chayne win one or more contests at big Sunset riding boards like that

I need to dig into the crates of old VHS videos that I used to record back in the 80's of the surf contests on TV.

Remember that, when they had surf contests on ABCs wide world of sports

It was cool

maxb · Post by **maxb** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:42 pm

yes ,and don't forget riding a little wave at a bay called waimea on the same

RMcKnee · Post by **RMcKnee** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 3:42 pm

And he had the best taste in wetsuits, by far.
For all you tontos de goma who think black is the new pink, well ... read 'em and weep!!!

Cheyne was/is a true character who always travelled his own path, just like Geoff McCoy, his shaper. He now runs a surf school here on the Goldie and travels the world hunting big waves.

Surfers Journal did a nice profile on him a few years ago that's worth a read for historical info plus entertainment value. I'll always love him, not for his big cojones, nor his freakish talent, but for his individuality and his loyalty to his mates.

Vintagesurfboard.net wrote:My favorite piece of Laser Zap history is in Scott Dittrich's movie : Follow the Sun from 1980. It include includes Cheyne Horan on a 5 ft 6'' Lazor Zap at 15 to 20ft Waimea Bay.

Check this out for even more weirdness
http://www.vintagesurfboard.net/mccoy.html

eqKneelo · Post by **eqKneelo** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 4:55 pm

I loved this guy.
Always pulled for him against MR.
Ironic, seeing as how MR was just riding a narrow Kneeboard.
Anyway, one of the greats.

eqKneelo · Post by **eqKneelo** » Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:03 pm

Actually... Cheyne owes me about $300 and the 200 surfing hours I've spent through the years buying "keel" fins and trying to get them to work!

Swear to god, I've got everyone ever made... and it's solely because of him.

BTW, anyone wants to borrows the latest FCS Red Tip, be my guest.

quadfin · Post by **quadfin** » Sat Aug 15, 2009 11:51 am

Lazer Zap inspired album_showpage.php?pic_id=21810

Has some drive issues not completely related to outline. Dropped in a center plug to try more fin options.

RMcKnee · Post by **RMcKnee** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:10 am

Geoff may be "overclaiming", but on his website he calls the Lazer Zap the forerunner of the modern shortboard, claiming it to stem from 1973. Where I surfed at that time, one saw no Lazer Zaps, but plenty of McCoy single and twin fins, with progressively more tail area as the years went by. Most boards of that time (70s) were tapered from a wide point well forward of centre, as I remember it. Some of 'em sure looked fast ... The movement of the wide point in the planshape to aft of centre definitely was a turning point in modern shortboard design.

Interesting that the old dongas from the longboard era often were wider aft.

KenM · Post by **KenM** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:32 am

Wasn't the narrower nose/wider tail an element that was essential in the success of Simon's thruster?

KenM · Post by **KenM** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 3:23 pm

CaptKneemo wrote:i hate that other folks surf.

See if ya can't convince a few million of 'em to quit would ya. I'd be eternally grateful.

maxb · Post by **maxb** » Sun Aug 16, 2009 5:32 pm

ken, if anyone can pull that off, i'll build him a shrine
max

RMcKnee · Post by **RMcKnee** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:08 am

This thread needs a backsplice real bad.

Simon Anderson's talked various places about how he came up with the thruster, but for me his best development lately has been his quad fin set for Futures.

An often overlooked fact is that GG has been banging on about the unnecessary "swing weight" of the pointed nose on the modern surfboard since ... well ... about 1970 I believe. Sure wasn't much nose on old Velo ...

I still reckon McTavish and that North NSW/Sydney/Goldie crew had a fair old contribution to shortboard evolution that still doesn't get the credit it ought.

See link below.

Fossil Man · Post by **Fossil Man** » Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:59 pm

Speaking of multi-colored wetsuits and boxes of 80's vhs surf videos anybody out there got a copy of an Aussie surf movie called " Water Slaughter", no Chayne in it, but tons of kneeboarding with a not half bad soundtrack ( ok it's a bit 80's-ish ) I used to have a second generation copy of it and lost track of it.

Bob · Post by **Bob** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:06 am

I remember "Water Slaughter". I think I still have a copy.

I think the kneeriders were Simon and quite a bit of footage of Neil Luke at Aussie Pipe.

Did I get those names right?

KenM · Post by **KenM** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:09 am

Oh my God is Peter Schroff still at it. I love that guy. Check out the Circa 80's model, Lazor Zap outline with quad fins.

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