This is kind of rambling out loud with what I have felt surfing very different craft. Feel free to chime in and support or shoot down any ideas posed.
6-10 liddle hull smoothie- You can drop in to a semi-mush stomach high wave, and as long as it has a future to it, and you are frontside with a bit of diagonal/down drive, you put it on a rail halfway down the face, or at the bottom, and (just like the stereotype) it just smoothly sucks evergy from the face gliding or even pushing u down the line pelican style while on the rail as fast as pumping the sh!t out of a thruster but you are just holding that smooth lean! But heel pressure cutbacks (fin at 13.25 trailing edge from tail) feel like my 6-1 ci single when the fin is too far back-- it drives but I wanna feel it tighter (probly lag as the board is new and I am so used to surfing off of fin clusters).
Now Lee. V mentioned something about his multi fin edge, and how you can get hull turns up on it… while still able to cut thruster arcs off the tail/fin cluster.
combine this most recent personal gain of surf feel with Rambled thoughts:
hydrodynamica footage of rasta surfing that fish in aussie point surf
classic velo bottom turns
favorite standup board ever a 6-0 x 19 1/4 x 2 3/16 lost rnf (pretty heavy single to spiral vee) that i had someone duplicate, but they went too flat and the board was dead feeling. (stresses importance of single conc to double conc with some vee out tail/spiral vee)
failed carbon spoon stressing patheticness of clark foam in rails.
1st board experiment failure because of lack of strakes to release before water hits hulled rails.
Nose diving horrible sing conc entry rocker on spoon - shows importance of slight belly/hull in front third
paddle fins rendering toe/cant obsolete if tuned properly (which mine are not)
best feel = mat = closest to water = thin = light
hulls curves get crunched when shrinkin below 6-10 length.
Synthesis = 5-10 x 19.5 x ?? standup spoon swallow tail
end grain balsa rails front half/false tail rear half — thinnest possible for rigid structure only- adjustable float is provide by mat style bladder w/ traction, but still above false tail…
edge based…hull rails frontish half- sing conc -spiral vee inner hull/bottom. rear half is dead flat rocker and separated from rigid (although still extremely thin) deck
canard quad style paddle fin hybridized for no toe- cant - thinnest as structurally possible
carbon/s-glass/weird bad colored industrial epoxy that can be messed with and structurally maximized (basically heat treatable epoxy??)
weight 5-6 lbs ??
result: trim if u want, hull suction link turns/smooth drive if you want, tuned flex hardcore off the tail fincluster bottom top turn combos if u want…
Problem: it would take at least 5 more years to surf individual parent board concepts to generate feel/understanding then 10 years of making it structurally sound then 10 years of fine tuning shape then 10 more of fine tuning flex I would be almost 60 years old!
damn makes u just wanna bodysurf…lol
edit- some words didnt belong, others were missing
