Dave Rastovich interview with carbon fish and quad (vid.)

For fish inspiration… you’ll enjoy this:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1758336155

Thanks Dale- the part of me that likes shiny and new ideas is very into the concept of carbon fibre. Daniel Thompson was riding a CF fish his dad shaped that was awesome, and had carbon fibre cutaway keel/fins- apparently the flex and snap back on the fins was really noticeable. Both those boards are great, and obviously Dick van Straalen and Rasta are really doing some cool stuff fooling around with the fish concept.

That was good Dale. We get a good close look at the boards,too. I wonder if the Taoist symble on the keel fish is Van Straalen’s or a nod to Steve Lis? Mike

Nice clip and info, thanks for posting that.

From the way he handles both boards and swings them around, they are Very light weight. Also the sound when his hand hits them indicates a very light core. If not hollow they are .75 eps core.

Also there is no indication of a center stringer on either board. I’d say both boards he shows have perimeter stringers.

REALLY cool, heaps of stuff to think about there…

great stuff thank dale

i was wondering how stiff they would be?

This I like. I was interested to hear that he prefered the quad with concave to the twin with vee.

Shame we can’t get this sort of input more often, but most premeire league shapers seem to like to keep their innovations to themselves so others can’t copy it, fair anough I suppose.

Thanks for the link Dale…looks like a very fresh and interesting approach…

clever fusion of old and modern concepts. The first board looks like it hauls ass.

Any one know the name of surf film he refers to?

Paul, just a guess…it looks like its built for DTL speed so I dont think there’s a lot of macro board flex going on there (I wouldnt want much either), but there might be some swallow tail and fin flex. Cost of CF is a major deterrant for me - I dont think the benefits outweigh the costs…durability can be achieved in different ways as you know. Interestingly, bamboo is pound for pound stronger than steel…and renewable! In contrast, it takes quite a bit of energy to make CF and huge demand from aircraft makers is raising prices even further. Crazy.

yeah i wanted to say it

but i dig what there doing wrt designs

rooster- the symbol is DVS’ own.

the movie in reference is Under the Sun

by cyrus sutton (Riding Waves)

supposed to be released this summer

i’ve felt up the dvs carbon twin keel that he’s talking about before, but i can’t remember the stringer setup, might be stringerless. either way, you can’t tell thru the carbon. that board is rediculously light, lighter than my 4’10 eps/epoxy, and it was a foot longer at least. run can further elaborate, he’s got the same one.

Thanks for the interesting post. Anybody have any idea as to the widths of those boards?

Anyone know if this movie is out yet, or when it will be?

I’d never noticed this thread before but I do have a DVS carbon fibre flex keel and the width is 52 cm’s. Some have speculated about their speed and they are fiendishly fast.

The fun begins at 3’ and in 5’ sucky, smooth beachbreaks with light winds they are in their element and the keel fins hold and keep on holding…

No fun whens its too windy or choppy and foamy walls can make things sketchy as mine has a huge concave.


Thanks for adding to the discussion.

Yours I take it is the twin fin fish?

Can you give us dimensions 12" from nose and 12 from tail?

How far up from the tips are the fins?

Pictures would be great too!

Thanks

Those boards are just wrapped in carbon fiber, they aren’t hollow or anything right?

Is it EPS and epoxy?

Yeah lets see some pics of that beauty

Took some measurements in inches this time.

Nose width is 13 & 3/4"s.

12"s from butt crack is 17 & 1/2"

12"s from swallow tips is 16"s

From swallow tip to leading edge of fin is 14"s

From swallow tip to trailing edge of fin is 6"s

The cutaway in the fin is 4" from the base of the fin to the trailing edge.

I also a 1 & 1/2" tall glassed in centre fin.

Happy to supply pics but I need to be able to e mail someone the pics and have them post them for me.

The thing I noticed about the Rasta clip is it doesn’t show the deep V shaped concave that I have in through between the fins I have on my board.

Also a good shot of the V on the outside edge of the fins and rails around the swallow tail may give some good ideas to those wishing to extract more from their fish planshape.


they can’t be anything but “very stiff”. just the way I like 'em.

Thanks for all the info.

Would be glad to post photos.

e-mail them to juicesticks@gmail.com

Tripper

dale–thanks for the link, great look at rasta’s rides. cuttlefish–thanks for the insight on your stick, listening to testimony from rasta is kinda out of my realm. he can probably ride the lid off an ice chest and find some good points of performance to note…lol

Here are some shots from Cuttlefish of his DVS carbon fish.