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Eight-08: The Full Story, Part 1: Why I Do It
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Tora with her new Eight-08 5’8Well where should I start? As a small kid I always build model sail boats…. no that will be a too long story.
Maybe better to start when I was (almost?) a young adult: 1982 I started to build my own windsurf boards. It developed into a semi-professional custom wave-sailing board building. By the end of 1980th I think I had built around 50 boards. They (sometimes) worked good and usually looked amazing. Back then we built windsurf boards for wave-sailing just like surfboards. We used Clark foam, did nice paint jobs and laminated with E-glass and polyester. The boards became heavy, pretty fragile, but very good looking!
My 8’6 JB-custom wave-sailing board, built by me 1986, for a winter stay on the Canary IslandsThen wave-sailing boards became much more hi-tech. Carbon, epoxy, sandwich etc made them much lighter and much stronger, but also more complicated to build. I made a few of these during the 1990th but mostly I ordered custom boards from the leading professional wind-surf shapers.
Gradually my surf-interest started to compete with my wave-sailing. I have had a surf board for so many years but only used it as a complement to my windsurfing. When there was no wind for longer periods I did surf, but not much and my sole focus was wave-sailing. But this started to change about 5, 6 years ago. I realized that surfing was much to fun to be just a desperate way of getting waves when there was no wind, surfing started to become THE way for me to have fun in waves. I also started to feel an urge to put the planer into some foam again. Another reason for building boards again was that I also started to surf stand-up-paddle boards, when that thing became the no. one hype on Maui and the Hawaiian Islands also around 5, 6, or maybe 7 years ago. Back then the stand-up boards were so big and I realized that they would not fit perfect on my home brake Torö very well. I did order a custom SUP on Maui and brought it with me home. The shape on that Kazuma 9’3 x 27 1/2” was perfect on Maui winter waves in relative no-windy conditions, but was to narrow for me (then) at windy and choppy Torö. The year after I bought home a wider Paddle Surf Hawaii, but I felt that was to corky. So, the idea then became that I should build myself THE perfect Torö stand-up ripper!?
Me on a small clean day at ’Udden’ ToröBut my stand-up interest faded, as my ’prone’ surf interest increased. Stand-up, or SUP, is crazy fun, but for me it was more yet another ignition to my already increasingly burning surf interest. So I have still not shaped me that stand-up Torö ripper…
Shaping and glassing boards is so much more fun if you have a nice place to do it and some proper tools. Before starting to shape, I wanted a shaping bay to do it in. Thus, next step was to build a shed in my back yard. The shed needed to be big enough for a proper shaping bay, as well as have some space for my import and distribution business of Hotsailsmaui windsurf sails and rig-components (another story). I’m so super pleased with my shed, but you have before you can read about how that came about. It will be the content of second part of this story. Check in on my surf notes soon, and you will hear all about my shed, and what happens inside it!
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