I was listening to the Surf splendor podcast the other day featuring Eden Saul in Oz talking about Mat surfing and board design. He mentioned Greenoughs Edge boards had some inspiration from the Catalina Boatplane. The Catalina boat plane had to take off and land in very short distance runways in the water and had a 2 step hull design which later had an impact on edge board design. Anyone else have more information on the development of edge board design?
@Josh1
I feel I’ve been suckered. Saw the video was 1 hr 15 min long after watching for 7 min. (Misread length to be 15 min at first.)
Would have signed out but Eden is a fairly easy-going personality and I was interested to hear about Greenough and Seaplanes. Watched the whole thing and never heard/saw anything about GG and Seaplanes.
In the future, please post the time in hours:minutes:seconds where the reference you mention is located.
I should just bail on this thread after all of that.
Nonetheless, I designed my Lord Hybrid (link below) never having seen a Greenough Edge. My objective was to create a planing surface with parallel edges to get Lindsay Lord planing hull advantages combined with a more common curved Surfcraft outline/template.
IMO the GG Edge creates more of a Lindsay Lord planing hull when the board is in trim.
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If you haven’t already seen that ….there’s a book too.
I gotta say that the Deep V on the bottom of that plane reminds me of the Deep V boards that the Aussies brought to Sunset and spun out on. Think about it. The bottom design on those planes was designed for easy take off and landing in water. They were not designed to turn or maneuver. So I guess if you were on a lake going in a straight line such a design might work. That design does work on paddle boards in flat water. Just don’t try to turn hard without a paddle.
