So I have to say thank you first, to all the inspiration from the Carl Olsen’s finless and others here on sways and to Derek Hynd; Musica Surfica also has played a big role in this board. Tom Wegener has also spread the fire with riding his Alaia board. Plus countless others…
6’4’’ 23’’ wide and 3’’ thick. Magic 8’’ egg template, without the tail.
Really likes going down the line trimming with nice long bottom turns;
only a few small days under the belt, looking forward to see how she goes in better surf.
Oh and huge thank you to Bob Miller for putting up with my antics and having the patience to shape this for me.
All comments would be very much appreciated, good or bad.
Inspiring. That is creating… How does it work? That makes me want to make one also-, but I think I would do the golf ball dimples on the bottom of the tail. I think that could create enough drag needed to keep the tail from drifting out.
Yeah, since the surfboard building class at the Surfing Heritage Foundation I have been thinking about another way to create drag with-out a fin, and looking at these pictures of the finless board, it makes me think: Dimples on the tail. I do not know the sure thing.
But lets discuss-, is there any previous record of this?
dimples preventing lateral slip? I doubt that. My guess would be it would change lift characteristics in the tail of the board moreso than directional stability. But introducing dimples I guess would create drag, so maybe. Try it and let us know.
Actually, during the 80’s the Willis Bros. incorporated golfball sized dimples thruout the bottom of their boards. Best I can recall their explanation was the dimples disrupted the water flow “sucking” to the bottom of the board and increased board speed…obviously a concept that didn’t get much traction.
