Want to see a TUNNEL finned longboard in action? (Video)

by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:09 am

Anyone who is wondering about the Tunl and/or the Power Surfboards Tunnel fins should really check this out. If Brent thinks that this board is "towing a bucket" then he could quite possibly have one on his own head!
I hope you enjoy it!

Got to Resolute Salmon tunnel finned longboard speedboard video clip. Tunnel fins rule! wooden surfboards rule! (a poem by Roy Stewart)

Cheers, Roy

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by **jonny** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:26 am

Roy - that is one HELL of a wetsuit mate!

Some serious glide in that board eh? Looks like it coudl trim all the way to England!

$20,000 each? YOWSERS! They make the boards I sell look like a bargain haha!!

Thanks for sharing that with us - you've got me in the right mood already today.

Jonny

by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 7:48 am

Cheers Jonny, She's got plenty of glide alright, and loads of lift . . can be a handful but she's fast!

BTW that's $17 500 (We can't have everyone out there on them after all!) :wink:

by **jonny** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 8:23 am

RoyStewart wrote: BTW that's $17 500 (We can't have everyone out there on them after all!)

QUALITY!!!!

by **Guest** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 9:06 am

Roy,
The carefully crafted & beautifully made fin you illustrate and use on your boards is totally different to the Australian commercial product "Tunl" fin I experimented with last year. To see exactly the product I used go to www.tunlsurf.com.

The product in question was amazingly badly made out of injection moulded plastic, it had rough edges, mismatched joints...you name it. It wasn't even facing straight ahead when fitted to my board. It had the same quality level as a roughly made kids toy.
When fitted to my board there was noticable drag, even when paddling.

You misquote me also about the "why not just tie a bucket to the back of your board and drag that around...it'd be cheaper". That funny comment was made by someone else who's made over 4000 surfboards...I just passed it on to the readers.

I am happy to post you my sample for you to make your own judgements, you'll find it laughable.
Email me your postal address and I'll slip it in a courier bag for you within a day or two.
Also, please don't misquote me or poke cheap shots at my expense.
Thankyou, Brent.

by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:36 am

Anonymous wrote:Roy,
The carefully crafted & beautifully made fin you illustrate and use on your boards is totally different to the Australian commercial product "Tunl" fin I experimented with last year. To see exactly the product I used go to www.tunlsurf.com.

The product in question was amazingly badly made out of injection moulded plastic, it had rough edges, mismatched joints...you name it. It wasn't even facing straight ahead when fitted to my board. It had the same quality level as a roughly made kids toy.
When fitted to my board there was noticable drag, even when paddling.

You misquote me also about the "why not just tie a bucket to the back of your board and drag that around...it'd be cheaper". That funny comment was made by someone else who's made over 4000 surfboards...I just passed it on to the readers.

I am happy to post you my sample for you to make your own judgements, you'll find it laughable.
Email me your postal address and I'll slip it in a courier bag for you within a day or two.
Also, please don't misquote me or poke cheap shots at my expense.
Thankyou, Brent.

No thanks.

by **Roy Stewart** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:41 am

Hey Brent, if my uranium shares keep going up at the present rate I might be scoring that beachfront Omanu house I have my eye on.

In any case we will be surfing the Mount again soon, look out for my new line of "Valley Surfer" T shirts!

The Wairarapa has been pumping!

by **surferdude_scarborough** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:30 am

we all knew hed be back didnt we
hey roy what happened to "do you want to send surfing waves to the recycle bin"?

by **drowningbitbybit** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 11:54 am

RoyStewart wrote:This site gets the black spot . . . .I have banned it.. .some nice members but too much of the old brainless herd mentality for me. Save me the trouble and cancel my membership please. . .then you can go and xxxxx yourselves over having something in common with Swaylock's.

Consider yourself banned from Roy Stewart's computer.

There was this one as well, dont forget... :roll:

by **Roy Stewart** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:46 pm

I found an old surfing waves thread during a routine google search so just thought I would do a quick post or 2.

:lol:

by **libby** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:07 pm

And there we were cyring ourselves to sleep everynight at the thought of being in Roy Stewarts bad books.... :roll:

by **Brent** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:20 am

Not to mention all of us waiting with baited breath for the GPS plots & data proving 27.whatever miles per hour. Full of xxxxx fool.

by **deathfrog** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:37 am

well I don't know about you, but I'm scared my board isn't up enough to scratch... maybe me and my board are just too insignificant and to really be anything I have to buy a tunnel fined power surfboard...all this superority is bad for my self esteem.

by **surf patrol** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 2:39 am

I just can't believe he's back :cry:

by **libby** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:55 am

Aaaaaaah there there surf patrol *hug*

Maybe we should all just agree to ignore him this time; we know better than to get drawn in now and hopefully he'll just get bored and go away......

by **Roy Stewart** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 6:32 am

Actually 27mph isn't that fast most competent surfers have probably gone faster than 27, I am just interested in speed, that's all.

by **CheeZee** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 11:32 am

I am just interested in speed, that's all.

lol.. strange ..i woulda guessed LSD is far more suitable for ya !!!

" WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ROY CAME VISITING " !!!

by **surferdude_scarborough** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 4:07 pm

Maybe we should all just agree to ignore him this time; we know better than to get drawn in now and hopefully he'll just get bored and go away......

ah but libby roy bashing is a tradition on all the nets forums

by **deathfrog** » Thu Aug 11, 2005 8:06 pm

I agree that 27mph isn't fast for the fastest speed you reach, but for an average crusing speed 27 is steep.

I bet kelly was pushing 40 in his bottom turns at supertubes...

by **Roy Stewart** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 6:22 am

[quote] (Cheezeee)
lol.. strange ..i woulda guessed LSD is far more suitable for ya !!!

" WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME ROY CAME VISITING " !!![/quote]

I have never touched the stuff and never will.

Want to see a TUNNEL finned longboard in action? (Video)

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