Blue Planet Show visits Jimmy Lewis in his Workshop in Haiku, Maui
Aloha friends, it's Robert Stehlik. Thanks so much for tuning in to the Blue Planet Show. Today's show is extra special. I got to meet with Jimmy Lewis. Derek and Lucas and I visited his workshop in Haiku in Maui, where he showed us his whole workshop, gave us a full tour, showed us his house as well. He even gave us t shirts and signed them.
So that was a super fun trip and I highly recommend watching this one on YouTube. I'll post it as a podcast as well if you're doing other things. But the visuals are great. He shows us the full tour of his factory, his dust collection system, how to shape a board from basically hot cutting it with a hot wire cutting the blanks, installing inserts, foil tracks, his philosophy on shaping and how he was inspired by sea planes when he developed some of the earliest foil boards. He showed us a hydrodynamic plate mount that he developed for the air chair and then how to get sharp edges when you're glassing, how to shape a twisted V tail. So he's not holding back, sharing whatever he knows. So cool of Jimmy to give us all the details. And at the end of the interview, I'll also make some special announcements about the Molokai race, and a couple other things. Stay tuned to the very end. Thanks so much for watching, and without further ado, here is Jimmy Lewis: