sorry for the bad photos, board is 7’3 x 22" x 2 1/2. 12 inches from the nose the width is 16 1/2". Wide point back around middle of stance…
Full rails running down to harder edge at the tail. Most belly at the nose than running to flat and slight v in the tail
tiny waves here in Norway at the moment but picking. Up tomorrow and will have better testing conditions as the week goes on…
1 foot messy beach break today and the board takes off more like a shortboard than midlength. Not a fast paddling board for sure. Had a 9 inch gl flex forward in the box… Didn’t have enough drive to come off the top very often though maybe due to wave size… Felt like very little drive so I’ll throw in the greenough 4a tomorrow or move the gl back… When trimming in the middle it was very slip slidey…
anyone have any thoughts on design vs ride or inklings on how it might ride in larger surf? From today it feels like more juice is what the board needs… Wondering whether it will cut back off the top ok or if I messed up…
It’s hard to get the feel of what a board can do in 1 foot messy beach break. Cool blog Dan. An Aussie living in Norway playing American football? Incredible! Mike
You would want a fin with a wider base to it and you would want to turn the board from the tail, not the middle. The GL fins were designed for the California hull designs which run the widepoint (and point of turning) way forward.
Surfresearch.com.au has a catalog of surfboards laid out in chronological order. Look at the templates of the boards from 1966-1968 - lots of designs with the wide point back similar to what you’re doing. The difference is that the pro shapers back then were using more curve in the template forward of the wide point where your’s has more parallel rails until you start rounding it for the nose.
I think this catalogue is a great resource for learning more about the different designs; at least it has been for me. If you look in the Catalog Master Base, each of those boards has a writeup that includes more pictures and goes into a little more detail. You’ll see what kinds of fins they were running on these boards.
will try the greenough I have tomorrow on your advice gdaddy thanks a lot.
in 1 to 2 foot I didn’t get much of a chance to turn off the tail except for coming off the bottom and hitting the top ( with less projection than I’d hoped for). Do you know if the nose wid is too narrow? That’s what’s eliminated the curve…
What’s common with the design is that the noses are usually narrower than the tails, and there’s usually some vee to the tails to get them to go from rail to rail. With that much tail area you need to have your rear foot over the fin and weight it in your turns.
thanks a lot.