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flpnhndl
Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 87
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:59 pm Post subject: Northshore Maui Boards? |
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I still have a NSM Slalom 280 that I purchased shortly before they stopped making boards. Does anyone know anything about these boards? Construction, designers, etc..? Just curious. Thanks. |
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jingebritsen
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 3371
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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they were certainly great in their day. richard greene still puts out some really assume designs. too bad the company had some mgmt issues. richard was getting the job done back in those dayz, still is today. the grand prix series from naish that i tried in OBX test was one of my favorites. _________________ www.aerotechsails.com
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Do you happen to know the year of that board?
As a Kinetic dealer back around '00 thru '04, those year yellow boards were made in Taiwan by JamesChen.
If it's newer, it's a custom from RichardGreene, as said. |
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flpnhndl
Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 87
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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I got a white one about one year after they stopped making the yellow ones. Was there anything unique about construction? |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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Now that could be tough to pin down.
Kinetic made them thru '03, sending them to NSM dealers. Somewhere around then, I know a few were ordered in white, to obtain the "custom" look. But I don't know how many.
NSM started making their own boards around then, and an overlap period of probably 2 years ensued, where NSM got boards from Kinetic and also had customs built for them.
Your 280, is it a normal slalom or a course slalom? Could you measure it's exact length and width? |
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paulf.
Joined: 21 Mar 1996 Posts: 435
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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since the name came up: i did not know r. greene was doing the naish grand prix. didn;t he have his hand in the fast rockered jp wave boards before they had 2 wave board lines? |
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dllee
Joined: 03 Jul 2009 Posts: 5329 Location: East Bay
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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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SailboardMaui, GEM, VO2Max, JP, what other's? |
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keycocker
Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 3598
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry to say Greene is tired of breathing glass dust and says the speed board he modified for Eric Beale last month is his last job. Just before that he shaped some of the Naish line.
He is in China setting up to expand his line of helicopter parts and bids all boardheads a regretful goodbye. |
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