Herb & Dale?

Any new progress with the finless surfboard designs? The whole tube thing vs. fins definately peaked my interest. Would hollow tubes through the board work in weak/mushy surf? It seems that you would need a certain amount of water flow through them to work?

Any new progress with the finless surfboard designs? The whole tube thing > vs. fins definately peaked my interest. Would hollow tubes through the > board work in weak/mushy surf? It seems that you would need a certain > amount of water flow through them to work? …Still working on it ,using bi-foam stringerless blanks,and pvc piping.As long as you have forward movement it works(FASTER EVEN), it’s when you hit a flat spot or slowed section in the wave it suffers…I am in the works in changing that problem ,the next one should work better.Herb

Any new progress with the finless surfboard designs? The whole tube thing > vs. fins definately peaked my interest. Would hollow tubes through the > board work in weak/mushy surf? It seems that you would need a certain > amount of water flow through them to work? mike d., My apologies, but I have nothing new to report on that subject… it was mainly a bone that I hoped others would chew on… the purpose in posting my two finless surfboard drawings in Swaylocks “Boards” section under “Diagrams”, was to hopefully provide a focus for discussion and some fresh experimentation. Between my ongoing work with custom surfmats, and my previously successful experiments with finless bodyboards and kneeboards based on the much older “Hot Curl” pedigree, I have absolutely no doubt that a shorter, lighter, slightly flexible finless design for standing surfers is entirely feasible. It`s my realistic opinion that the lack of easily accessable, uncrowded, high quality, longer waves, and currently acceptable standards of wave riding style have more to do with inhibiting such designs as any other factor. To the inquisitive, those old questions of what you want to do, and especially how you want it all to FEEL on a really good wave, still apply more than ever. Dale