Jump a plane to West Oz today and bring a board with you for Camel. Conditions looking good. That might provide you with some good advertising to get the ball rolling.

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SandS said..

Roy , this is a serious question . how can you justify asking $27000 for a f/glass surfboard ?


and $1000000 for a timber surfboard ? Is it a massive typo too many zeros ?


cost breakdown ? labour, material , profit margin ?

Still no answer to this pretty straight forward question

The justification is that it pleases me to list the boards at such a price... that's a straight answer, not a joke.

Fair enough I'll pay that

You must put a fair premium on your time and have a very high opinon of your own self worth

I personally don't feel that any surfboard is worth much even if they have a intrinsic historical value

Surfing is one of the great joys in my life and the stoke I get from seeing someone surf well on one of my boards is enough for me (provided the materials are covered and there is enough left over for some beers)

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Cuttlefish said..
This thread seems to be better received than over in the USA...
forum.surfer.com/index.php

wow im only on page four and im laughing.....thanks for the link cf

roy communism is calling you,do not resist

I read page 1 then realised thread goes for 19 pages.
Started to sweat.
Please fill me in.

Scotty any truth to the rumour you hire talking books from the blind foundation

I didn't know they were available.
Certainly an option.
I'm not sure if it's a lack of attention span or just simply a lack of time but just can't picture myself sifting through 19 pages. I look at those double page spreads in the paper and cringe (unless I'm sitting on the brasco).

i remember this bloke and chick at work that would fight and argue all day,,but were secretly ****ing each other stupid at nights.

come on Roy and Mac come clean.

I think Roy's fins look interesting but the boards are way too expensive. For me anyway Funny post Cobra

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i remember this bloke and chick at work that would fight and argue all day,,but were secretly ****ing each other stupid at nights.

come on Roy and Mac come clean.

its a love hate relationship Cobra,I love Roy he hates me

I don't hate anyone Macaha.

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I think Roy's fins look interesting but the boards are way too expensive. For me anyway Funny post Cobra

I thought 'Mates rates' was how it worked in your neck of the woods?

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RoyStuart said..
I don't hate anyone Macaha.

I know Roy just replying and adding some humour as bad as it may be

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i remember this bloke and chick at work that would fight and argue all day,,but were secretly ****ing each other stupid at nights.

come on Roy and Mac come clean.

So how long were you farking her for ?

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RoyStuart said..
I don't hate anyone Macaha.

I know Roy just replying and adding some humour as bad as it may be

it was bad

im with ted on this...send a board to camel NOW....a monster swell is about to hit, with one of your team riders right on it and you have a board made already....Do it Roy....or do you not check swell events and just wing it/leave it to others?

Make it happen sport. www.indiegogo.com/projects/surfing-the-ghost

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Make it happen sport. www.indiegogo.com/projects/surfing-the-ghost

thats pathetic and where you lose credibility SPORT.....you are the one who wants to be the legend of big wave surfing,because you are a genius{well so you say} Sp you could have had this done if you wanted it to happen...Now it just smells like a scam or delusions of grandeur ....You did not need much to make this swell event happen except back yourself..... yes im waiting for a witty put down or some other sad response how others should do it....yet this one chance was easy and a given....SO I SAY FRAUD

I posted this earlier this morning on another forum.
"Well use the money to get a board on a plane to WA and have it put it through its paces.
Que an excuse in 5,4,3,2,1...
Look I wouldn't want to be in Camel's shoes anyway because you say you want to fine tune the boards but and its a big...but.. the problem lies in the fact that when surfers have offered constructive criticism of your boards in the past (that I have read) its been turned around as a deficiency of the rider.
How can the designs progress if you're unwilling to take on board (pardon the pun) the feedback of surfers?
This has been a fundamental of the shaper/surfer relationship in furthering design in the modern age rather than simply shaper/shaper.
Finally, at $27,500 USD per board does it really matter what these surfers say about them?
Who'd be ponying up those sort of $'s anyway?
If they like them they could just get them scanned and have someone else make them for sub $1000 USD.
Or any accomplished shaper could eyeball them and shape one very close to what you're doing as well since your fibreglass boards are still in their early stages.
Happens every day in the surfboard building world."
It is so far un-answered but Roy did respond to an offer of $5 USD from Mexico.

$39500 spent on a fin should make me surf better.


serious I'm buying one Roy.



checks in the mail.

Don't know about Kiwi chicks.

but Aussie wifes would cut your balls off if you come home with a $4000.00 surfboard fin.

come to think about it, i would cut my own balls off

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Don't know about Kiwi chicks.

but Aussie wifes would cut your balls off if you come home with a $4000.00 surfboard fin.

come to think about it, i would cut my own balls off

Personally i get annoyed at having to pay over $130 for a set of three

I said no to the $5.

No doubt Camel's shaper can make one himself after looking at my facebook page, not so much freight then hey... and they can refine it to their heart's content and say that it's based on 40's kookbox toothpicks, that way they don't have to mention me at all.

The fact that no one's doing that probably means that the design isn't really any good at all. ... respected shapers know what's good by now after all... so why waste good foam and resin on a kookbox knockoff which would be a disaster in big surf?

Plus as you say I didn't cut the board in half to make it go better as Rarick recommended, or turn it into a mal as his other suggestions would have entailed... my bad when everyone knows it's about doing what other people say.

At least I put a huge price on them so that everyone has an excuse not to buy, it makes it easy for them... so I'm not all bad.

Oh well half my life wasted... why weren't you there then to help prevent me from heading down the wrong path Pete? Still, better late than never so you have my gratitude.

If anyone wants to try the concept for **s and giggles after I'm done and gone then it's easy as.

I wonder what the most environmentally sound method for disposing of a big quiver of useless boards is? I'd like your advice on that one.

I'm going to cancel my current orders for boards too, best to get a real job and stop ripping people off, then quit surfing so that others can express themselves artistically on waves without suffering my ugliness and wave hogging in the surf.

Cheers in advance.... what was I thinking? The boards are bloody slow anyway, and can't turn.

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RoyStuart said..
Make it happen sport. www.indiegogo.com/projects/surfing-the-ghost

thats pathetic and where you lose credibility SPORT.....you are the one who wants to be the legend of big wave surfing,because you are a genius{well so you say} Sp you could have had this done if you wanted it to happen...Now it just smells like a scam or delusions of grandeur ....You did not need much to make this swell event happen except back yourself..... yes im waiting for a witty put down or some other sad response how others should do it....yet this one chance was easy and a given....SO I SAY FRAUD

Quite right mate, I've just found Jesus and he told me so as well.

I'm going to dob my self in to the attempted fraud office tomorrow.

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Don't know about Kiwi chicks.

but Aussie wifes would cut your balls off if you come home with a $4000.00 surfboard fin.

come to think about it, i would cut my own balls off

Missed a zero there you did, but don't worry it's only a computer rendering so there's no danger of one actually existing.

Anyway Jeff said to me that the tails look too narrow and dangerous, so there's no point in sending one.

Sorry that I didn't keep you in the loop on that one, I'm pretty busy recovering from a three month long illness, so I slipped up.

Last of all I've never liked surfers much, with one or two exceptions. That's why I live in an inland town where there aren't any, and have a shop which is nearly always shut.

When I do get a customer it's always a f&cking drag talking to them, seriously. I'd rather discuss the meaning of life with my pit bull... being a dog she loves me anyway, not knowing or caring that i'm no good.

so your boards are farked...you said they were the best and all other shapers were inferior to your genius.....damn roy get your uneducated team rider and put him in his place....or keep posting vids of you in knee high surf to prove how good they are.

as i said....FRAUD bro.......

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I said no to the $5.

No doubt Camel's shaper can make one himself after looking at my facebook page, not so much freight then hey... and they can refine it to their heart's content and say that it's based on 40's kookbox toothpicks, that way they don't have to mention me at all.

The fact that no one's doing that probably means that the design isn't really any good at all. ... respected shapers know what's good by now after all... so why waste good foam and resin on a kookbox knockoff which would be a disaster in big surf?

Plus as you say I didn't cut the board in half to make it go better as Rarick recommended, or turn it into a mal as his other suggestions would have entailed... my bad when everyone knows it's about doing what other people say.

At least I put a huge price on them so that everyone has an excuse not to buy, it makes it easy for them... so I'm not all bad.

Oh well half my life wasted... why weren't you there then to help prevent me from heading down the wrong path Pete? Still, better late than never so you have my gratitude.

If anyone wants to try the concept for **s and giggles after I'm done and gone then it's easy as.

I wonder what the most environmentally sound method for disposing of a big quiver of useless boards is? I'd like your advice on that one.

I'm going to cancel my current orders for boards too, best to get a real job and stop ripping people off, then quit surfing so that others can express themselves artistically on waves without suffering my ugliness and wave hogging in the surf.

Cheers in advance.... what was I thinking? The boards are bloody slow anyway, and can't turn.

wow you should have been a lawyer roy...you have more points than a porcupine but never any evidence to back up your claims

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Anyway Jeff said to me that the tails look too narrow and dangerous, so there's no point in sending one.

Sorry that I didn't keep you in the loop on that one, I'm pretty busy recovering from a three month long illness, so I slipped up.

Last of all I've never liked surfers much, with one or two exceptions. That's why I live in an inland town where there aren't any, and have a shop which is nearly always shut.

When I do get a customer it's always a f&cking drag talking to them, seriously. I'd rather discuss the meaning of life with my pit bull... being a dog she loves me anyway, not knowing or caring that i'm no good.

That's a shame. I was sincere in my suggestion to have you send him one to ride in this upcoming swell.
I thought it would be an opportunity to get some video and see the board in action in the kind of waves it was intended for and then people could see for themselves whether they would like to contribute to your campaign based on what they see. Could have been a huge boost.

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as i said....FRAUD bro.......

If i were in fact a lawyer I would point out that the statement above is false, and that it is also defamatory.

Your argument could lead to the conclusion that in your opinion I am insincere, but certainly not that I am engaging in fraud or attempted fraud.

I suggest that you be more careful in future... these things can come back to bite.

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That's a shame. I was sincere in my suggestion to have you send him one to ride in this upcoming swell.
I thought it would be an opportunity to get some video and see the board in action in the kind of waves it was intended for and then people could see for themselves whether they would like to contribute to your campaign based on what they see. Could have been a huge boost.

You didn't stop to ask if it is in fact possible.

As it happens it isn't.

But then it's not your habit to think that I might have any information at all which you don't have.

Also I don't like you, or trust you... though I wish you no harm.

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chrispy said..

as i said....FRAUD bro.......

If i were in fact a lawyer I would point out that the statement above is false, and that it is also defamatory.

Your argument could lead to the conclusion that in your opinion I am insincere, but certainly not that I am engaging in fraud or attempted fraud.

I suggest that you be more careful in future... these things can come back to bite.

oh please you are making me horny with all that talk..

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RoyStuart said..
Anyway Jeff said to me that the tails look too narrow and dangerous, so there's no point in sending one.

Sorry that I didn't keep you in the loop on that one, I'm pretty busy recovering from a three month long illness, so I slipped up.

Last of all I've never liked surfers much, with one or two exceptions. That's why I live in an inland town where there aren't any, and have a shop which is nearly always shut.

When I do get a customer it's always a f&cking drag talking to them, seriously. I'd rather discuss the meaning of life with my pit bull... being a dog she loves me anyway, not knowing or caring that i'm no good.

That's a shame. I was sincere in my suggestion to have you send him one to ride in this upcoming swell.
I thought it would be an opportunity to get some video and see the board in action in the kind of waves it was intended for and then people could see for themselves whether they would like to contribute to your campaign based on what they see. Could have been a huge boost.

everyone has said that already cf....i cant use fraud...can i say snake oil salesman


roy the man who will go down in history not for his beautifully crafted boards...but his bull**** and excuses

After humorously following this thread for a day or two and not being a regular contributor, I may be slow but surely this is a piss take ? The price of the boards and fins on offer and the unsubstantiated claims of their big wave prowess has been amusing to say the least. Surely though with the much publicised and long anticipated swell about to hit almost all of our western and southern shores this is the golden oppurtunity for someone to put these things through their paces and either put up or shut the f..... up once and for all.

A forking ultimatum, lol frigging squared.

It's logistically impossible to catch the swell mentioned and I've got news for you, I haven't even started ranting yet and it's going to be on video in future as i'm tired of typing to retards, so the stfu request is nixed.

'Unsubstantiated .... blah blah blah' .... for sure, for sure, now go fork yourself you Humpty.