Just finished shaping my second board.
7’0 with Blending Curves template “ Stubby”
7’0” x 22 x 2 5/8…pu Millennium blank and will glass pretty heavy 6/6 oz on deck and 6 oz on bottom with Greenroom epoxy.
I am light 150 and older 66 and will use it in mostly small short period windswell ….yeah I know I should use a longboard in those conditions but sometimes I enjoy just not dealing with a longboard.
Tempted to just do single fin and for my surfing it should make no big difference but just curious about 2+1 . Doing 2+1 will obviously give me the experience of installing Futures boxes.
Single Fin with a 10.25 box five inches from the tail. Six — seven inch length raked fin. FCS Fusion sidebites @ 15 1/2 — 16”s. For sidebite fins use a set of those single tab 3 or 4” fins that True Ames makes. The single tab and the long box will give you room for adjustment. This setup is fast and loose, but holds well in windblown or glassy conditions. One of the best setups there is for wide tail shapes.
What OSS1 shows is good. As an alternative to the side fins being further up like they normally are, look at what Jim Banks is doing with his latest 2+1 setup. It places the side fins where you would normally put twins and then you can use the board as a single, a single with sidebites, or as a twin fin. You can’t do this if you want the option of riding it as a thruster.
Having the fins out on the rail adds a lot of drive. I just use a 9” Greenough 4A for a single and smaller versions for the 2 + 1. I prefer calling it a 1+ 2 setup.
Thanks again. I will go with the setup you recommend. All my boards have Futures finboxes so I have a few sets of True Ames sidebites for Futures but I see what you mean about being able to move the single tab fcs sidebite forward or back.
Interesting that you say that….I have a 7’ Egg shaped by a local shaper and when I bought it he explained how he had put the rail fin boxes very far back ….I think they’re at about 10” . So I have surfed that board with a small NVS fins trailer in center box and NVS twin fins and it was very nice in small surf.
I tried to copy a similar shape board I have…very simple bottom….very slight convex in first 1’ or so….then pretty much flat all the way to subtle v from just before the fins. Basically a flat bottom
I surf soft weak smaller waves and figured this would be pretty fast.
I like to put a slight concave in the nose, 1/8” or so, then a smooth transition to either flat in the middle or slight belly going into a double concave past the fin. Sometimes I run the concave all the way to the tail, sometimes I flatten it out after the fin. I find that the double concave works better for me than a vee in the tail. The concave up front allows the board to run through flatter spots. I been doing this on my small wave boards for years.
Finished my stubby. My second board ever. 7’0” x22x 2 6/8. Very happy with how it came out. Kept it simple.
It feels heavy though…. I did 2x6 oz on deck and 6oz on bottom. PU blank with Greenroom epoxy. I don’t mind little weight in choppy windswell I mostly surf but wonder why it feels so heavy compared to couple other PU boards I have for example a 7’6” Bruce Fowler PU board.
Wanted to use FCS Fusion boxes for sidebites but couldn’t find any so used Futures.
Fowler used a very experienced glasser. They know how to leave the right amount of resin in the lam to keep it strong but light. It could also be in the finishing, a heavy gloss coat would add weight. It could also be in the blank, I think there are different densities in PU blanks, but I’m not sure, I use EPS.
Looks great! Looking forward to hearing how it goes. I personally don’t mind extra weight as I tend to cruise the face and carve rather than snap turns.
Thanks. Yes probably too much resin used in lamination…. I did a hotcoat using the amount recommended in Greenlight charts for 7’0 board but probably little too much also.
Most likely the glassing schedule on your other boards is not the same. Double six deck isn’t a norm, but is a good idea. Six/four is an “Industry” standard. You are better off with the double six deck for a personal board. It will dent less and last longer. Also a lot of factory boards are very often four ounce bottoms. Take this into consideration and yes there is a weight difference. But There is also a difference in how long your board will last compared to to factory glass jobs.
