On the Neilpryde (www.neilpryde.com) website the first thing you see there is a picture of Kauli Seadi on a wave. The boom in that picture appears to be a bit different to most and has an unusual extension setup.

Does anyone know what it is?

I looked at the Windshack website amongst others and it mentions a boom where the boom end moves down the extension instead of the extension moving. Is that what this is?

Has anyone used one? Is there a real advantage in the stiffness of that design?

You've got bloody good eyes to get any boom detail from that photo.
Is that Kauli or George Michael?

Surely thats just his harness line that you can see.
Its been cut off in the photoshop process, so it looks like two bits of tube.

Long harness lines and outhaul rope dangling. Nothing too different apart from 30+ inch harness lines.

I'm not trying to be disagreeable but I'm pretty sure that's a harness line you're looking at. If it isn't harness line then where is his harness line?

If you follow from where the harness line starts on the boom it is the same length and same curve as on the riders side. The shorter piece at the back is the floppy bit of rope you get when you've tied off your boom and .

They are pointing straight out like tubes in that direction because he is snapping pretty damn hard off the lip.

To have 2 bars going beyond the clew would just drag in the water when you bottom turn and not what you need particularly when you turn as hard as guys like Kauli, Josh and JP.

But at least I wasn't trying to be.

I think as someone said earlier it's just photoshop gone wrong. Look at the weird effects they have added.

CJW said...

I think as someone said earlier it's just photoshop gone wrong. Look at the weird effects they have added.

Nup, not photoshop's fault....just a strange angle, I guess....see second image.

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[edit] Looks a bit like a new type of adjustable boom, where the back of the boom (terminology?) slides inside the boom rails?!? I can only see one harness line too? It's hurting my eyes and my head now!!

maybe it is the outhaul?

Two outhaul ends? thicker than the harness line? Swinging parallel, and not in the same direction as the harness line is swinging? Seems a bit of a dodgy explanation to me!

Whatever it is, it curves nicely in line with the boom arms on both sides of the sail, which could suggest that it was carbon tube that passed right through the boom end.

I think Formula/Jord are onto something with the sliding boom end - it would make a true one piece carbon boom a possibility, should be stiff and strong, but wouldn't fit in the car well, and you'd get the spare tube stuck in the lip or face of the wave..

Still wondering where the other harness line has gone though??

Leech said...

looks like his aged 10 yrs with that grey beard, and been on the pork pies with that double chin...

welcome to the club, kauli

Its a little JP sticker on his sail window.

I think something's not rite here!!! Maybe aliens are photoshopping Kauli!!! Look hard.....NO FIN! Those moves aren't possible with no fin.........



....Maybe, just maybe, he's trying out a new prototype for a jet propelled board!

Kauli & NP.....WE'RE ONTO YOU!!!

Signed.....Seabreeze Conspiracists P/L

ooohhh pc. and stewie, you are spoiling the fun

look...that must be a gps built into his board too! how did i miss that the first time?

Nope its forward scanning passive sonar to protect his fin. He must have been sailing backwards when he broke it. He doesn't seem to need it anyway cos he's so used to that poppy slidy stuff he just turns on his rails. The blokes a genius even if he is gay.