how to foil high performance quad longboard

Hello all,

 

What rides nice for a hp quad lb as far as foil goes?

Does volume make a big difference anyhow, there is so much of it and planeing already that i doubt it.

Sure, you want some thickness to float and not break the board, but otherwise?

On the website of ... firewire you can see 2 longboards, one with a shortboard foil, one with a different foil, more thickness carrying backwardss

 

Some folks, keola rapoza, steve boehne, add a concave through the tail, not vee with, no singles.

Apparantly helps when you turn hard? I never tried, so does anybody own such a board with that Concaved tail?

 

Main bottom contour designs are concave to vee with double, 2+1, or quads., or flat to vee, w or w/o concaves

Apart from Greg Griffin, who i think only uses flat {convex?] surfaces for lift.

Only parmenter describes a board that resembles Griffins board [i guess], but it is not online, it states st like rails with an edge all along...

 

Also, i have done a little searching of hp longboard, but little pics of hp quad lb's on the web.

Apparently everybody makes em, but no pics, no vids, little description of the contours.

 

What i found [also the 3* & 2+1 included] is:

- http://www.shawnambrose.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/jeefqdz11.jpg the Quadzilla [including vid]

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- OAK foils [quad] http://oakfoils.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-10-12T17:55:00-07:00&max-results=15 

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Some Rusty board

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of course some members of this forum contribute:

Greg Griffin:

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I have made 1, but it broke, had flat bottom till fins, where it had panel vee, 1/8, low rails, with apex @ 0.875 inch, and i believe the distance inwards was 0.75 inch, 2.6 thick 4.8 inches in nose and 2.8 in tail, went great with Mc Kee set-up and the Stilettos fins.

Made a 2nd one, broke it

looking for input for nr3

 

Did a search in archives and read:

Who here is riding a quad longboard?
Any quad longboard fans?
http://forum.surfermag.com/forum/showflat.php?Number=1364962