“That will never work!” He muttered as his logical, yet untrained mind tried to come to grips with the design. “It’s just going to stall, off the tail” Young Factory Grom observed.
His intuition served him well, for the design relies heavily on one important basic fundamental law of design ‘Give and Take’ to achieve ‘Balance’
Grom was looking of a sketch of a board design. One that I just sketched at my factory kitchen table, after a long day in the dust. I would have had this design in the back of my mind for 2,3 even 4 years but until now I would never have taken seriously let alone made it.
Bugger it! I said to myself with an inner smile, an anxious anticipation and a new found energy …I can make this Work! And Work well, ha ha. I love a challenge.
4 pm, I’m back in the bay. 3 plus hours later it’s shaped from a raw blank, as always.
Straight up stairs, spray white, and with the magic of sun-cure and in house UV cure box my “Extr0vert” Design is ready for FCS fin installation, with a very hot mix.
Beer time relax and then sand the freshest of fresh boards. Done!
Happy but bewildered at the design, it must have been 2 am before I got to sleep.
Named the “Extr0verT”.
As you can see in the pic’s the outline is a standard small wave short board
5’ 8” x 18 1/2” x 2 1/8” squash
Fins standard five fin “quiver breaker” set up, can be surfed as thruster or quad.
Foam foil is also standard.
The whacked out difference is in the rocker-concave combo.
Tip to tail the board has a lot of curve.
For argument sake, Lets call standard rocker convex, simple... so the opposite is a concave rocker, cool!
The ExtrOverT rocker comes in at a slightly high nose entry the middle rocker smooth and consistent, however, once the rocker curve hits the 1/4 mark, up from the tail, being 17” for the 5’ 8”, it kicks drastically, then, the rocker drastically kicks the other way back down forming a concave rocker “opposite rocker”.
With so much going on with the “rail” rocker’s S bend out the tail I wanted to keep the bottom contours as neutral as possible.
I put a concave through from the nose running into a deep concave deepest at 1/4 up from the tail. The stringer line I kept at a radius of 24 feet (smooth consistent curve) Also I used this 24 feet radius curve running into and through the deep double also cutting through 1/4 up from the tail.
The nature of the rail rocker combined with the ‘Ark rocker’ concaves produced a bottom design – slight concave into deep concave into deep double concave into vee with a double in it then into flat out the pod (tail). Shit Hey… Any way.
