Hi guys first post but have been looking for a long time and usually find what I am after, but have a more specific project in mind and would appreciate some input from the mid length riders out there. I am super keen to build a board like the Ryan Lovelace v.bowl, it looks like it would be perfect for the right hand point breaks I ride regularly. I usually ride a traditional log on the smaller to medium days and regular type short board when it gets a bit bigger, but enjoy the more relaxed feel these days (getting old/shoulders worn out). Any rocker, outline,thickness, bottom contours, would be awesome.
Never ridden an original, and the finer points might be infinitely dissectable, but if you combine the above features in a thoughtful way, glide should come easy.
I’ve made my own iteration and it’s fun. Needs tweaking, but definitely fun.
Was more interested in weather anyone had made one and how it performed, nose and tail width, and thickness. I had read his website and seen a few videos of him surfing and talking about it, just trying to get as much detail as I can about the board before I start shaping!
Check that one out. I wouldn’t call it a direct clone, but VBowls and other mid piggish shapes were my inspiration. The bottom on mine follows his outline above pretty closely, but whereas goes into a V, I found unnecessary since I had a healthy tail kick due to the flipped blank. I kept the tail flat. With the the hips/tail flip combo it is very maneuverable, albeit from a pivoty kinda vibe. A bit stiffer from mid board, but the outline curve helps enough. All in all a fun time, but there is definitely room for tweaking.
huge fan of mid-lengths…hulls are pretty point specific…more of a swiss army knife , really like this 7’7 x 13 x 21.5 x 14 x 2 7/8 RP mid-length, single to double, rocker 5.5" N, 2.5" T, center beef foiled out to medium rails…plentydrive, loosy goosy, does it all except in the smallest or largest…Reefs, beachbreak, points, whatever.
And a huge fan of the Allman Bros, played on that V-clip. From the 'Eat A Peach" album, so titled because the lband leader, Duane Allman, was killed by a peach truck while cruising on his harley…guitar riffs from Duane and Dickie Betts were southwest electric blues as good as it gets…along with Stevie Ray of course…
Go to the last page, I have a shot of the completed board there and it should be viewable… The first few images don’t really pertain to the Vbowl thing. Much more true pig ideas. But pictures can only help you so much. If youre going for somehting similar, outline is easy, just look at the hundreds of vbowl shots online. What youre going to have a hard time with (atleast I do) is grasping the rocker, bottom, foil etc. Lots of pics of those online as well, but hard numbers are non existant. Of the ones I’ve seen in person, if you go flat nose to slight belly to slight vee before the fin and then flat out the tail, that should get you in the ballpark. Rocker is arguably way more important, and Lovelace’s apex seems to hit behind center. I’m not there yet where I can confidently hit such a “funky” measurement… Rail shape would prob work 60/40 all the way till the last tail end of the third, where it should go hard down for release…
After looking through tons of threads spanning the last few years on Vbowls, the basic gist that can get you close without hard numbers or a board to reference would be a midlength egg type of thing. Add your own interpretations and ingredients. But I would pay extra attention to rocker and foil first, then bottom then rails and finally outline to tie it all together.
I have only ridden it three times so it’s early days. It definitely feels different with the apex of the rocker between my feet. Very easy to kick turn as you would imagine but will also stall very easily if you lean back at all. I haven’t had it out in anything over stomach high waves so hard to know how it will perform with some juice.
I made a 7’6 hybrid that I use in waist high to DOH+ point surf (any surf really), and it surfs so well that it has effectively replaced my shortboard and gun. Dims are 16 x 21.25 x 14.5 x 2 5/8, WP +2.5. Glass is 4x4 deck and 4oz bottom so it is real light and fast.
That looks like a fine board. With the fin box you have many options for maintaining control if it find itself in waves where it starts getting sketchy.
Try a 7’2" x21.5" Egg shape, wide point forward a little, rounded squash tail, pinched rails, convex bottom, slight domed deck, full nose, relatively flatter rocker… thin pinched
throughout…not too long raked glass on single fin board.
hey got a 7 2 minard single earlier this year. ezy ryder, surfs off the tail and has lots of rocker and was recomended to be fitted with a non flex fin. i’d recomend trying a more modern "off the tail’ and rockered version of a mid lenth single fin as well as trying the traditional flat rockered hang fiving mid lenghs,
