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"I didn't name it that... Phil did, mostly because it's another craft (if you can call it that) that I pressured him into designing for me. I asked him for it because my experience with another design had left me with the definite feeling that there was more to be gotten from a sailboard than I was getting, such as better handling and more speed. ... At least, Phil and I can say that we weren't in hot pursuit of the Almighty dollar when we entered the field; what we were promoting was the economy and fun of building your own. The savings alone are considerable, a mere two hundred dollars to do it our way against the price range of six hundred to more than a thousand bucks for a store-bought version. At this point, I will have to confess that I wasn't in command on the occasion of the Dynamite Sailboard's trials. I wanted an expert's evaluation, and I wanted to take some photographs of an expert showing what the Sailboard could do. Dick Cadwalader took her out on Lake Chickawau" on a warm afternoon in June 1981, under a bright sky and fluky northwest winds. I had photographer Jeff Julian with me in a June Bug, a dry- pants descendant of the Sailboard. For a while I thought the thing would never take off and go. We were running neck and neck when a gust caught the board, and she left us behind in one big hurry." [Excerpt from Build the New Instant Boats, by Harold, "Dynamite" Payson] |
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