I know as of late, this is more of a movie/promotional-event forum, but I have a design question. I am making a shorter board I can knee paddle (8foot, little rocker, soft rails, 4+" thick) and I am desiring fin box advice in terms of distance from the tail of the board:
A) Twin keels
B) 10" single fin box
Board tail looks like this, and is 8-9" wide:
And I got these in the mail today (THANKS LARRY!):
And someday I’m going to get me a set of these for riding the board with twin keels:
I was speaking tongue in cheek regarding a certain thread (honestly one of the funniest I’ve seen on here) involving the future shipment of a certain type of boards from NZ to a certain island chain where they will be tested, and said testing will be filmed, and hopefully someday we will all get a copy, and a t-shirt. Although maybe you are speaking tongue in cheek too…(P.A.L… what is that)? If you were offended, all I can say is that I’m not as dumb as I look…though that might not be saying much.
No worries. Subtle tone doesn’t always come through well in the written form.
If I decide to go tri-fin, I’m convinced that I want to try Blakestah’s setup. But for now, I’ll be happy to be surfing it as a single, or a twin.
Many thanks for your input! 12-15" for the twins!!! Wow, that is a lot further than I was thinking. I guess I was thinking 6-8", based on distance from the tips of swallow tail fishes…but they are usually much shorter, so I could see why further up would make sense. Oh, and I don’t know s$%t, hence the desperate plea for help!
–Ben
EDIT: Holy crap!!! I’m an idiot! That keel diagram should be 8", not 12"! I better change that!