Looks tres bien, your pote should be pretty stoked eh!
When you worked it out of the mal blank, I take it you remove length from the tail end to preserve the rockerline in the nose? Do you think a flatter rockerline than the Mal line would work in slower conditions?
Just to have a look at the rockerline:
Nice looking board so far, keep us posted eh!
And erhm… will it Megalodon themed artwork? That’s a big shark the megalodon…
i’ve heard a bunch of rhetoric about fish having to be sub-six foot, that longer fish don’t work, yadayada. but i rode my mate’s 6’6" twin keel fish (a foot taller than me) not long ago & i had an absolute ball on it. long flowing bottom turns, swooping cutbacks, release when you want it. like riding a fun board, except it was fun!
lob, i reckon your mate’ll love his big fish. i look forward to seeing his artwork.
When you worked it out of the mal blank, I take it you remove length from the tail end to preserve the rockerline in the nose? Do you think a flatter rockerline than the Mal line would work in slower conditions?
Here is how i placed the board, more or less and rapidly done.
That’s a really sweet looking board. I’ve been thinking about a 8-0 fishy thing, but wondered if I couldn’t call it a fish because of the size. Let us know how that thing rides and what kind of waves you are taking it out in.
Lob, I like it! When I was getting materials to make my first boards I also wanted to make a big fish and the blanks guys took me down in size from in the 7’ range down to 6’6" under the argument it wouldn’t work if it was bigger… It worked out but I still have a feeling a larger one will work nicely in slower conditions like we have in northern europe. I am happy to see that you have put a nice one on sways again. I am of the opinion that a lower tail rocker combined with the large surface area in the fish tail should be good to maintain glide and speed on the flats and moving around sections better than a minimal of the same size. My #2 EPS is a low rocker 8’7" single fin minimal which works very well but under the small sacrifice of volume, I needed to maintain a bit more volume than ideal to keep it going in the mush with my 100kgs as a result when the power picks up a bit you really feel it. My 6’6" fish works better than expectedd in these conditions and hence I have again opened up the possibity of a fishybu (fish/mal hybrid) Your dimensions will be interesting as well as your planned keel/fin layout.
Your buddy is a lucky man and I am sure we are all anxiously waiting to see his artwork!! Good stoke and good waves to y’all in la douce france!
Board looks great…i’m 6’1 190, surf once a week and recently transitioned from a 9’0 longboard to a 7’2" Orca fish (twinzer with a small trailer)…it catches dribble nearly as well as the longboard and is much more fun to ride
I’ve built and ridden about 20 fishes the last 3 years. From 6-10 down to a 5-8. Some have ridden better than others of course. The length had little to do with how they surfed. Oldy’s right in my opinion. Rhetoric. I found you can surf them shorter than you think, not shorter is better. I don’t know what the upper limit is on length in terms of the fast skatey feel of the fish. I guess I’ll find out as I age and my physicality deteriorates.
Lob, bueatiful shape as usual. What’s the distance between tips? Mike
lob, are you just using a length of timber with some rough grit paper to do your rails in that pic?, the second one?. Looks like a good way to get consistent rails.
