moonee
is DT dane thomas ? dan thomson ?
6'10 " ???? yikes that's one giant surfer
gill
great stuff
this thread is ALMOST making me want to build one ...maybe "moonfish" will do one first ?
mind you , the walden i have at 21 1/2 " and nearly 3" thick , and flat rockered , when ridden with the half moon fins i made , will suffice this summer as a larger [6'6"] Simmo-sub[stitute] , i guess ...
This is another recycled board project. This was shaped out of an old 80’s hull that was beat, brown, twisted in the tail and headed for the junk yard. I grabbed it, cut off the tail, stripped the glass off, shaped out whatever twist was left in the blank, plained it down to the good foam, added some single to double concave on the bottom, left the hull nose shape, domed deck and s-rails along with a little added edge in the tail…and boom. Now I’ll just see if I can ride it. I’m 6’4" 200 pounds and the board came out a 5’5"x20"x22"x18-1/4"x2-7/8"
((((Don’t think I’ve ever seen a board with a 20" tail!?!?!?))))
Hey Chip how’s it going.
DT just stands for diamond tail. I did that one in 1lb eps with corecell skins and rails. I’ve ridden it in all sorts of waves from fat 2’ to wedging 4-6’.
Best fin setup I’ve tried was Shaper’s keels with MR TX rears , super drivey for such a wide arsed board.
Make one you won’t regret it because they are heaps of fun !!!
Cheers
Mooneemick
this is the 1st one I ever did, and i still ride it from time to time. And. I still leave the water with a shit eating grin everytime… so much fun.
great thread, and glad to see everyone playing around!
great stuff
can i have a side on shot of the fins please , 'Royal'
it looks like a quad keel setup , yes ? [i LIKE those !!]
billy , THAT would have to be the most radical board in namibia , i reckon !!
moonie hi mate ! it would be great to do a board swap if you ever venture over this way i reckon
maybe i should get some funky fins happening for you to test drive in that board eh ?
cheers
ben
Ben
If I get over your way a board swap will be on for sure.
These are the performance keels that I was using but I had them on loan so back they went.
Any opportunity to test drive fins would be fantastic . One of the downsides to living in such a big country is that everyone is spread out , can’t just pop around the corner and swap boards with fellow swaylockers too often !!
Cheers
Mooneemick
hey chip,
i don’t actually have a side on shot, but can tell you it is the lead fin from a bonzer 5, and Doc Keel template in the rear. Standard overlap. Sounds like a lot of fin, but you don’t notice the lead fin at all - and that was the idea…!
thanks for the encouragement
Hi guys,
I am new on swaylocks and I am a backyard shaper from Italy..
this is my new one: a 7' x 23" x 3" made in eps and epoxy..
I am in love with this board!
Hey Kingu,
Those look like the Donald Takayama halo fins. How do they surf in the that set up?
The cut down has me thinking.
I have a 7’4" X 23" V bottom diamondtail single (pig planshape) that is begging to be turned into a sub 6’ mini sim.
However everyone seems to do concaves.
Being a v-bottom is it worthwhile?
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I haven’t been riding this board and have had it for sale for a while with no takers so it’s a willing patient.
good to see you are game for some chopping, but its so nice, I'd sell it and make the other board...but if ya start chopping, please post pics....
Nice job on the fin “angles” picture #2. I like the 7’ X 23" X 3" demsnsions. If you put your back fins a little futher up in the cluster, maybe an inch AND moved everything up a few inches from the end of the tail you will really loosen up the board. Thats my take, Good job.
I know it is not like most of the soap boards here but here is a picture of mine. Shaped it a few years ago and have had a few since. 5’6" x 21" x 2.25" stringerless EPS Quad. The only good thing to come from a SUP! scrap foam. It was a block with no rocker and like 5" thick, shaped all by hand no computer. Just for fun. Works great and brought one to El Salvador, now i think it is in L.A. somewhere, one of the crew brought it back home. Enjoy and Great work everyone!
Let me steal a photo of my latest attempt from another thread. 6-0 22.5. No concave, but i tried a triplane between the fins. It surfs pretty well. Better than my first 2 tries. Mike
Super inspiring can’t wait to make one!
Hi Ace,
the front fins are a "bonzer runners template" and angled as in a bonzer5 configuration, the back are a "halo template" from Takayama..I am agree with you about the fins position, this was my first prototipe, in the next one I'll try to make a little bit more curvy outline in the last foot of board and move all the fin set up a little bit further..
thank you!
Hi Pico,
yes the back fins are a halo template from takayama..
I can't say really how these kind of fins affect the ride of the board, the board itself is really weird (almost zero tail rocker and pretty much parallel outline) and the front fins are a bonzer runners template..
so, a lot of design elements!
what I can say is that the board is really really fast, turns really well (unexpected to me) and above all is solid and stable also during the faster turns.
saw this board in the flesh at the Italian Fish Fry, and only wish there was time to try it out! Good looking board
here’s another twist on the theme I made a while back. Part wakeboard, part Sim, and a little spice…loadsa fun!
same keel-zer fin set up as the 1st one, just with a c5 lead fin instead, 4 channel inside a rolled concave…5’6"x22"x2 3/4"
6’0 x 21 1/2" x 2 3/4"
