Hi there,
a friend asked me to build him a more user friendly noserider for the choppy and weak beachbreaks we mostly have here. So my idea is to flip the nose and tail 1/4’’ and let the rocker @1 foot as it was. A little bit towards the 3 stage rocker design.
What do you think of the bottom curve? I think it still looks clean and shouldn’t destroy too much of the noseriding capabilities but will me more forgiving with the chop and late takeoffs.
Cheers from germany,
Andi
That was a commonly encountered rocker, circa 1960/61, you’ll do just fine with it.
Another trick I use to make them more friendly, is a template change. Bringing it back to a pin, the nose comes up quicker with smaller movements.
This is quite funny, thougt this would be a quite modern rocker design. (marketing lingo “performance noserider”)
Thank you Bill for your feedback!
That’s exactly what I also wanted to do: widen the nose and give the board a pin tail, like the Donald Takayama Opihi Model http://www.surfboardsbydonaldtakayama.com/surfboards/progressive-longboards/opihi/
had to bring up this again.
Wonder if Bill’s twingle fin setup is suitable for this kind of board (performance noserider) too?
The boards I saw here with Bill’s setup were more funguns or shorter boards…
planned dimension are 9’1 - 19 1/4’’ - 22 1/2’’ - 14 1/4’’
What fin size do you recommend for the twingle setup on this board?
