Ho Ho Ho Hoyte Designs Holiday Hundred

We at Hoyte Designs value our customers and are showing our appreciation by giving back this holiday season.

This Holiday Hundred is for customers who have purchased boards from us during 2010 - 2011.

This hundred dollar holiday gift is redeemable from December 1st through March 31st. *

Here are our regular prices. Take off a $100 and you do the math:)

Fins not included.

$525 Poly

$560 Epoxy Resin, Poly Blank

$590 Epoxy Resin, EPS Blank

$650 Resin-X, EPS Blank

Fin systems included.

FCS, Future, Lokbox

Glass-on prices will be discussed seperately.

New Customer? Buy one at regular price before December 31st and save a $100 on your second board before March 31st.

Contact us by e-mail at hoytedesigns@yahoo.com

or phone 805-485-0700.

Merry Christmas and looking forward to the New Year!

*This deal does not apply to team riders or wholesalers.

** Sales Tax where applicable

*** Does not include shipping.

Hoyte's Hot Grom on the East Coast

Luke Hansen.

This 13 year old grom is not just blowing the tops off Florida's mush burgers, but blowing the minds of such companies as Hurley and Hoyte Surf Designs:)

Here he is barrelled in Florida.

But most certainly not to be tucked away for too much longer... I can hear the cameras clicking.

Luke was the only East Coaster to make it to the finals at Nationals at Lower Trestles this year.

Congratulations Luke!

FYI: Luke is powered not just by the force, but by a 5'0 Hoyte Designed JV Grom Series Thruster.

SurferMag Forum Hoyte Jet Tail finished for Oscar

The link below is a post we placed on SurferMag Design Forum showing the finished board from the previous post.

The Hoyte Designs Jet Tail Twynzer!!

Check it out!

http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2178286&an=0&page=0#Post2178286

Happy Wednesday.

'Jet Tail' Hoyte Twynzer

Russell feels the Need...

The Need for Speed.

As a result of that need .... the 4C3H Jet Tail Twynzer was created.

For Oscar.

Here's Oscar checking out another jet tail in the glassing room at UFO 

(Hoyte Designs)

see

 http://www.undergroundfiberglassops.blogspot.com/





Oscar is quickly becoming a staple around the glassing ship.

(sorry, UFO pun)  

We first met Oscar about three months ago when he contacted us about doing some glassing work for him.

He's from mainland Mexico and makes routine trips down there with used boards in hand for the locals.

We are waiting to get some pictures of him surfing his local breaks in his home town.

Meanwhile...

a super-custom 6'10 x 22" x 3"

is being shaped for him.

Pretty sleek for a big board!!

FYI: Game 6 of the World Series. Go Rangers!!

Rangers (3) vs Cardinals (2)

Don't call me between 6 and 9pm tonight:)

Happy Wednesday.

Adriano de Souza wins Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2011

 

Hoyte Designs congratulates Adriano de Souza on his win in the Rip Curl Pro in Portugal today,

beating Kelly Slater in the Finals with close scores.

Adriano de Souza (BRA) 15.67 def. Kelly Slater (USA) 14.73

World class beach break. Epic surf. Packed beach. And a sunset final.

What more could we the spectators ask for?

(albeit live stream:)

Kelly and Taj met again in the semis with Kelly scoring a perfect 10 on a backside barrel advancing him to the finals.

Adriano beat Bede Durbidge to secure his final spot.

And eventually, the win!

Congratulations to all surfers and we are looking forward to seeing you all in November at Ocean Beach, San Francisco.

SurferMag Design Forum - Hoyte Designs

Hoyte Designs has been featured in the SurferMag Design Forum more than ever this week.

Up to 4 different threads running at the same time.

Each thread is featuring the Twynzer model that everyone is fired up about.

Needless to say, we are stoked and honored.

When clients are happy, we are happy.

See link below.

http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/postlist.php?Cat=0&Board=UBB4

 This particular Twyzer is a 5'10 x 19 3/4 x 2 3/8 poly for a client who decided to order a smaller board instead. 

 

If interested in a Twynzer and you can't wait for a custom to be shaped, we are selling this board from the factory.
(Update:  SOLD. Immediately:)

 

Contact us if interested. 

 

Happy Fall everyone.

Still sunny and warm here in Cali!

Hoyte, WasSUP?

This is not your average SUP.

Russell has been building this stand-up for many months.

(See previous post USS VanBergen) and  has finally completed it.

At 12'  x  30"  x  4 1/2 " this touring, flatwater SUP is designed for speed, stability and, if you want, multiple person use:)

Construction:

EPS Core

Epoxy Resin

Paint:

State of the art Urethane and clear coat with UV protectors for high strength and ultimate protection from the elements.

100% Hoyte

Designed, Shaped, Glassed, Painted and Sanded by Russell of Hoyte Designs

Hoyte Designs representing at Haiti Fundraiser

 On Friday night, we had the amazing privilege of being part of a fundraiser (silent and live auction) that our friends Jez and Lynzi Blacker put together to raise funds to rebuild a hospital in Haiti.

see

http://u2uworld.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3J9zKikX_Y

We donated two longboards both with resin artwork with 100% of the proceeds going to the non-profit.

Set in the Santa Ynez valley, Central California.

Tables set in a mowed pasture strung with lights.

A dance floor and live rock band.

Incredible food and drink.

...and to top it off.

 A lightening storm that moved around the valley all night.

Surreal and gorgeous!

We are so proud of our friends who did an amazing job putting this together and who are still doing incredible work for Haiti.

... and for the family that won the auction on both boards.... enjoy!!



Hoyte Designs Twynzer for Orlo

This was a fun, but challenging board!

Let me explain...

Blank: EPS = open celled foam which needs to be sealed and then sanded back before the glassing to prevent blowing air.

 

Now add a concave, curve channel which, even on 'clears', is hard to get even and bubble-less.

If seen up close, one can see a near flawless cut lap on the deck from the bottom lamination.

No pinline required here.

The challenging part was keeping the tint even over a porous surface and to tape of the lams without pulling foam beads out.

Final product = near perfection.

Orlo is stoked! :)



Hoyte Designs Channel-Bottomed Twynzer

Russell Hoyte of Hoyte Designs:

This is EPS. Resin-X.

I shaped this for my friend Dave who sent us these pictures.

The title says it all.

Four Fins. Four Channels. Four Dave.

Sorry. For Dave.

Nice lawn.

Have a happy August.

Hoyte Designs Longboard Winner

Russell Hoyte of Hoyte Designs presented the winning longboard to Bryan Lamb and his wife over the weekend.

We held a contest back in March, in order to come up with the name for a model Russell had shaped.

They named it The Mullet and we liked it!

Very appropriate.

Business up front, Party in the back!

The front 2/3 of this board is Old School 50/50 rails with a concave bottom.

The back 1/3 is totally New School, double-winged swallow tail, single concave to double concave vee with the convertable fin set-up.

The board is for Bryan's wife and as you can see she is a petite lady.

So ... this particular board is The Mini-Mullet!:)

Congratulations to you both!

We are going to do this again, so check back on the blog and take part in the opportunity to win a free board!

Happy Summer everyone!

(unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere...then Happy Winter and we hope the winter swells are treating you right!)



Mini Symster for Steve

Russell Hoyte of Hoyte Designs: Mini Symster

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5'7"  x  22 1/2  x  2 7/8

Resin Art

Ink Pinstripe

Rail Color Sequence

Hoyte Twynzer

Hoyte Designs Twynzer Review

Below is a thorough review posted yesterday on Surfermag Design Forum for Russell Hoyte of Hoyte Designs Twynzer.

Big Thanks to HT who posted this!!

The link to this post is here if you wish to see photos.

http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2044173&an=0&page=0#Post2044173

BOARD REVIEW – RHD TWYNZER



BOARD DIMS: 6’1” x 19” x 2 3/8”


BOARD CONSTRUCTION: PU/PE 4x4x4 with a 4oz. patch.

FINS/CONFIGURATION: Glass-on Marlin 101 Bamboo Fins in a Twinzer set-up

OUTLINE-ROCKER-BOTTOM: RHD Spitfire type of outline and rocker (no bump in the outline, however) – moderate entry rocker, low rocker through the middle, increased tail-kick rocker from the fins out the back. The board has a moderate single concave under the front foot, increasing single concave depth towards the fins, to slight double in the single between the fins to just behind the fins, which then transitions into hard, converging channels in vee panels in the last 5 inches – the apex of the the roll/vee along/down the stringer is slightly higher than the rails in the last 4-5 inches.


RIDER: 5’10.5” x 175 lbs.


EXPERIENCE: 40 years old, 35 years riding waves, 28 years stand-up surfing


BACKGROUND: In 1992-93 I lived on Oahu, and having been a HUGE fan of both Martin Potter and twin fins, I went to the Blue Hawaii factory and had a long conversation with Glen Minami, with the intention of ending up with a Twinzer similar to Potter’s board from the late 80’s, early 90’s. Mission accomplished, I rode a 6’2” x 18 1/2” x 2 3/8” Minami Twinzer all over Oahu, and brought it back to SoCal with me when I moved back from Oahu after a year-long stint on the island. The Minami Twinzer was absolutely magic for me, and allowed me to surf with a lot of freedom, speed, and looseness I found lacking in thrusters. The Minami broke in half in small, grinding beachbreak left barrels in the spring of ’93 in south swell on the backside of Faria/Pitas. I’ve always wanted another Twinzer, so I finally pulled the trigger, asked Russell Hoyte to shape one for me.


SESSIONS: 6 sessions so far, all in a mix of regional and local NW/WNW swells. Yesterday morning offered up some good regional 12 second offshore thumping HH barrels, and the evening before I scored good wedging 11 second wedging/rebounding HH hollow draining and super fast righthand reef/rocky point waves. Last night was groomed regional windswell waves, and two days ago I caught some really fun beachbreak windswell wedgers in the early afternoon with some waves in the 5’ range. I’m really looking forward to surfing the board in some southern-hemi groundswell for further experimentation, and will update the review after the next round of southern hemi swell.


THE RIDE: Wow! Unbelievable! Just unbelievable. How often does a board go absolutely perfectly from the very first wave? This board felt perfect under my feet on the very first wave I caught, a 3’ left in semi-junky conditions at a really good and protected beachbreak with diffracto waves from canyons, breakwalls, and jetties. The board picked-up the wave effortlessly, gained instant purchase and projected across a high line on the face across a long fast walling-up section – the board was up and maching after one pump, and it carried speed as effortlessly as it picked-up the wave. It hit the section with perfect accuracy, transitioned the hit into a long double-clutch floater, landed out ahead of the lip, and projected off the bottom without losing a beat into a small and open 2’ clean face on the inside, and ripped up the inside of the small rampy inside end-section. First wave on a new board with funky design, and I surfed it as well as I can surf a wave!


Similar to the Minami, the board is a breeze to surf frontside, and offers up a completely different backside experience – the board allows you to hold a line for distance, break the line instantly for vertical schwacks off sections, the tail throws out of the lip, all the way around, and comes back underneath you easily. The board just stays under you, in uncanny fashion.


The board has a very unique balance of speed, drive, and looseness – more drive, control and stability than it should have for its speed and looseness. It has a great ability to get traction and purchase on the face, hold a line, but still maintains an ability to throw it up in the lip instantly, throw it around and break lines at will, all while maintaining high speed and flow. It’s more or less a perfect balance and combination of the ride characteristics of a twin, twin/trailer, thruster, and quad. It rolls between turns better than quads (less shifty), is more vertical and pivoty, does rounder turns, but has similar built-in speed and high-line capabilities of a quad. It is faster and freer than thrusters, but has nearly the same level of control and stability. There is no doubt that it is better than quads in steep, barreling waves. (disclaimer: I’ve ridden three quads, owned a HP 6’2” x 19” x 2 3/8” mayhem/…lost SD4 a couple years ago – similar in shape and design to the Twynzer, and is what I base my comparison upon).


I struggled a lot with my SD4 quad in barrels – really “hit-or-miss” experiences. The Twynzer rides barrels insanely well – much better lines, faster, doesn’t ride up the face in the tube, doesn’t get hung up high when trying to slip in under the lip, and is looser and easier to adjust the line in the barrel in comparison to the quads I’ve ridden. In comparison to thrusters of the same type of outline, rocker, the Twynzer is better (read; better than a Flyer). In comparison to rockered-out deep single concave thrusters, the Twynzer has similar ability to slip in, make it out, but it has a completely different type of feeling in the barrel. I would take the 6’1” Twynzer in steep barreling 6’ waves over any board other than my 6’4” deep single rockered out concave thruster. The Twynzer has much more drive and purchase than a twin-fin, but similar freedom on steep faces, in the lip. It also does 360’s like a twin-fin, probably better because you can get further through the arc before breaking it and sliding around – more ability to power the board strongly.


In terms of “power surfing” capabilities, it falls somewhere short of a thruster, but not by much, not much at all. I like the lines, freedom on the face, much more than quads – I can drop deeper, later, and at more critical angles than I can on quads, and can also pull up into barrels infinitely more easily, whether off the bottom or right on takeoff, in the hook, and can hold a better line in the barrel, faster and freer, and with really good drive.


Ultimately, the bottom line is, the board is a f*ckin’ blast to surf…insanely fun! By far the most fun I’ve had on a new board, off the bat, ever. No doubt about it. I’m going to order another identical to it, just to have as a back-up! I’m not kidding. The board picks-up waves with ridiculous ease, almost on its own, and is really, really effortless to surf...just a great, great board. It is so much fun to ride. It's like a fast, loose skateboard that can stil bomb hills with control.


You are depriving yourself if you don’t at least try this design, sincerely!


This board is better than the original Minami Twinzer I owned – its just insane. Russell went off with the tail – way more channeling and rocker than we discussed, but he put something into it that is unique, and more importantly, WORKS! I wondered if it was too “severe” for a moment, but I think those converging channels just add to projection off the bottom, across the face, and just create insane looseness up in the lip – total freedom with this board.


I can’t, I seriously can’t recommend this board enough. I’m stocked! Thanks, Russell! You said you were going to make it fast, loose, and skatey but with drive. I had faith, and you delivered on all points!


Woooohoooo!!!

Longboard Winner!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner...?

Not hungry?

How about a Longboard?

This was fun and we are definitely going to do it again!

Congratulations to Bryan Lamb who won with the name....

The Mullet 

There were a few entries with the same name, but his came fast, furious....and first:)

This board is definitely "business up front and a party in the back"  !!

We also want to thank Laura Fischer for sending in almost 50 suggestions. For this, we would like to give her a coupon for a $50 ding repair or $100 off her next Hoyte Designs longboard!:)

 

and Andrew Bennet for all of his suggestions.... which won him a Hoyte Designs T-Shirt.

We will contact you soon.

Thank you everyone and stay tuned.....more good things comin' soon!!

Happy Wednesday and keep Japan, Haiti and all those in crisis in your prayers.



Production Shaping

I have been and still am very fortunate to work for major companies as a ghost shaper.

I have been able to spend valuable time with some of the best shapers in the world honing my skills to create quality boards.

 

Production shaping is like marathon training.

It takes months and even years to cross certain hurdles.

For most shapers the first hurdle is 12-13 consistent boards a day.

16-18 boards day after day is quite a feat.

23-25 a day everyday is a marathon.

5 days a week straight for months at a time.

34 boards is my personal best.

Whew!

*sweat*

These pictures are some of what I accomplish in a day.

 

For me, the tricky part is being a production shaper for two or three different companies with different models and sizes.

These three pictures individually represent what I do in a day.

But my first love of shaping is  ......   My own designs!

This is where I get the greatest satisfaction!!

PS: Longboard contest winner will be announced tomorrow!!

Happy Tuesday everyone!

Keep praying for Japan. Our hearts are tender and broken for the people there.

DB and son inc. - Twynn Phynzr

An early Sunday morning meeting at Marina Park, Ventura and ...

...the along awaited Twynn-Phnzer for DB.

 

EPS Resin-X Twin with Trailer

This is Max, DB's son.

A little photo shy at first but holding the new board made him smile:)

Happy Monday everyone!

And Happy March for tomorrow!

Test Pilots Wanted!

Special one month offer for this board model below!

Because of the response we have moved this special to include March too!:)

This is a quick view of the matching logo for the twynzer phynzer.

Sweet outline and bottom concave.

Cardboard fin mock-ups.

No laughing!:)

Now for the special ... and this is no April Fools joke!

Starting April 1st -30th, order one clear polyester

 twynzer phynzer for $415.

or

EPS Epoxy: $490

or

EPS Resin-X: $550

(plus tax if you live in CA)

This is approximately 30% below retail.

For ONE MONTH only!

Details for special:

Full payment up front thru paypal or to Russ. 

Shipping:

$35 in CA

$100 outside CA

Contact Russell at:

hoytedesigns@yahoo.com

or

805-455-8435

Two For Luke - JV Grom Series

Here are two boards for Luke who lives in Florida.

They're headed east as of today!

These are part of the JV ('Junior Varsity') Grom Series.

The board to the left is 5'0"  x  17 1/8  x  2".

The board on the right is 5'1"  x  17  x  2".



Bamboo fin set up.

("Feel the Force, Luke!")

I would like to thank the crew at Diamond Glassing for their hard work and expertise.

Laminator: Raz

Finner and Hot-Coater: Knuckles

Machine Sander: Wade

Hand Sander: Pendo

Enjoy Luke and Happy Monday everyone.

PS: Still a couple of weeks left on the Longboard Contest. Check it out!