To parallel the Surfing Industrial Complex and inflate my ego, I have decided to name this tail design the AKA-Stoneburner.
The design above is real and the story true -- no satire, no mock.
I had an idea over 2 years ago. The original design concept was de novo and inspired by the dolphin tail (a marine cetacean).
It started as an all curves design and evolved into an angular (modified) dolphin tail. As such, it had/has nothing to do with the Johnson Stealth or Tomo surfboard tail designs. I never saw either before I created this modified dolphin tail design.
I was too lazy to hand draw a dolphin tail or get out my large aluminum french curve. So I used Photoshop to rotate, flip, re-size and print 2 copies of a Griffin fin template that was posted at Sways awhile back. I taped the printed copies together to create a conceptual dolphin-tail diagram (the black line curves). I put the diagram in a drawer.
After several days of rumination, I took the conceptual dolphin-tail diagram out of the drawer. I decided I did not like the curved shape created by the Griffin fin templates. I decided to use a fin that I own (the red pencil-line curve) to create a modified dolphin-tail curve.
Weeks and months passed. The design evolved into an angular dolphin tail (yellow, pink and blue highlighted lines), the AKA-Stoneburner.
It is all about physics.
Experiment. Do not experiment. It does not affect me.
Let the games begin …
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I wasn’t trying to say it was exactly the same… but its definitely in the same ballpark. I think “Felix” is a great name too, I loved that cartoon when I was a kid!
