About a month ago I posted here asking this hive mind how to go fast. I got a mixed bag of answers, but one really stood out. It was something like
“A generic board with generic fins will yield??? Talk to your shaper”
So I did. I described my problem of NEVER making the critically fast point break (mostly a low tide prob). The convo went somthing like this “I don’t give a sh% about turning, I just want to go fast” to which he replied “you really don’t want that board, I can make it fast, but only a true Jedi can handle it…” well something like that anyway.
So here it is. My speed demon. My light saber. My fat pig of a board that will get in early and haul ass. 5’8’'. really wide, really thick. fins ON the rails (someone said that too)
Oh and I can’t reply because no tengo points so show me some love.
My Tomo nano with sea shepherd keels and a trailer in the centre box is easily the fastest board I have ridden in years (and I have had a lot of fast boards inc mini-simmons) but can turn at speed as well while in control.
Hey Skywalker, nice looking board. I have one with the big keels, and it is probably one of my favorite all time boards.
I was going to say, I wonder what would happen if you keep the outline of the minisimm, and remove a couple inches in width. I saw the nano and that looks like part of what Tomo did.
Cuttlefish, not to further hijack the thread, How do you compare the nano with a minisimmons, i.e. rocker and all?
Tomo’s designs are real straight along the rail line and usually have relatively wide tail blocks, but they also run really narrow and are foiled out. Whereas Simms pack max volume into short lengths to the point of making them hard to control, Tomo wants you to swim your boards into waves; and he cuts them so small that you can overpower them. In other words, his boards turn in spite of their straight lines and wide tail blocks.