hp 5'4" fish. rocker question

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Hey, I see people with retro fish twin keeled fish in the 6ft plus range on here, those things are like manta rays. What I am looking for is information on something more like black fin tuna. Small agile, fast. Living on the east coast, I am dealing with less than ideal conditions 345 days out of the year. Even though I love classic longboarding, I don’t want to degrade that art by riding mine when it is sectiony and crappy, and when it is like that, I don’t want to make an ass of myself, hoping around like I am being attacked by bees on my thruster.I have a fish I shaped, 5’4" 19 1/4" 2 7/16" 13 1/4" nose, 15 1/4" tail, single to double concave(stripped down a bonzer for the blank) and I have 3’(maybe closer to 2 7/8") nose rocker and 1 7/8" tail rocker. this thing looks flat as typical east coast july. Do I have enough rocker to be able to throw this thing around or am I going to feel this tracking like a bullet train?

I am going to be finning this with 5 boxes, so I can set it up as a quad, a twin, or a twin finner

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you will be sweet, you can get away with less rocker on shorter equipment…you will work out how to ride it and adapt soon enough…go for it…

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http://www2.swaylocks.com/forums/help-me-build-better-fish

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You’ll be good…

I think a big key to making short, flat boards for small surf loose is fin placement. Too far forward for your style, and it’s just too squirrely. Too far back, and you start to feel the added width and lack of rocker.

You’re idea of multiple (or better yet, adjustable) fin options is a big plus. And I don’t think your rocker specs describe a board that’s too flat.

The other thing that I consider is rail shape. You don’t want to go too thin, or too round. A full, angular down rail maintains some volume, but the lowered, slightly thinner apex keeps it from being too corky on the turns.

Got any pics to share?!

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no pics quite yet, I am using pro-box fins. so I have a lot of adjustability. I have the rails and everything pretty finely tuned, and I am going to look at a Lost… quad for fin placement(check out 5’5" 19 1/4" redux pretty cool little things)