New to the forum… I’ve been riding a 5’10 twin fin fish for about 6 months I’m looking for an extra wide and thick, fuller nose, and rails shortboard about 5’6 maybe a little bigger… I’m thinking like some of the boards ive seen Taj or Ozzie Wright ride any shapes or suggestions?? as i want to get one shaped soon… thanks a lot
You don’t state your size.
Bud I know, former Tavarua boatman, at 180lbs., rides a 5’6" x 22.5 Lis style fish for under arms’s reach overhead.
Could go shorter, but that seems short enough to make late takeoff’s backside easy.
Could go wider, but that’d take some revising of the bottom shape (adding convex’s).
Fin sizing was 5" x 7 semi keel, too small for me backside at 155lbs.
I am 5’8 160 lbs. surfing mainly waist to chest high some head high surf. I have a fish now and I wanted something high performace and snappy to work well on the smaller days possibly learn how to do airs on. What would be a good size?
There’s a pic of Nathan Fletcher doin an air with one of the boards your talking about in the Surfing Magazines 2005 Surfboard Design Issue Feb 2005 on pgs 36-37 on a twin fin square/stubbie tail I lookedto see who makes that type of board but couldnt find any online board with that shape
sean
p.s I’m going to email vans to see who Fletcher’s shaper and if i find out i’ll pm you
Prolly a 5’4" x 21.5 around 2.65 thick with a flat deck. You can lose the swallow tail and gain some float, paddle, and wave catching, with sharper turns, but then need either 6.25" sides, or three 5" tris.
No FCS box system with fins bigger than 5".
Shove the WPoint so it’s barely 2" ahead of center, prolly about 3" back from your fish.
to do airs you need lots of speed…OWs board looks like rocket fish with very little rocker…kind of like a thin 80’s shape…yeah he’s getting air but the guy has a hideous style…yuk!
attached is a pic of my speed board…
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to do airs you need lots of speed...OWs board looks like rocket fish with very little rocker...kind of like a thin 80's shape...yeah he's getting air but the guy has a hideous style...yuk!attached is a pic of my speed board…
what are your boards dimensions, and bottom contours. What blank is the rocker closest too?
6’4x19.75x2.4x6lb EPS sandwich
rocker is just a smoother version of a “R” style blank…
single concave placed just right to minimize pressure drag
Haven’t seen that particular photo, but Nathan Fletcher is riding for Stretch surfboards out of Santa Cruz I believe. He has been surfing a battail quad fin board, that has been shown in alot of mag photos.