Thats exactly the dims of my first, measured 6’8" on the bottom. I ran a slight hull for 24 inches, then dead flat out to the tail corners with a 8 inch wide by 18 inch long concave between the fins. It has a scooped nose that I inserted a stringer in for 36 inches counting on the thickness of the S deck to keep the board in once piece.
Up here, we can’t get away with such small dims as 5’6", our conditions dictate much longer paddles as well as the back and forth in the line up. I don’t have to duck dive mine very often, thats what channels are for
I have a new one shaped thats a bit wider throughout at 24 and 2 inches shorter, I am glassing it tonight.
The afoaf mini, the fins are not on the corners so I would be kind of curious how that works. I place the fins 2 inches up and 1 1/4 inch in, 10 degree toe tops. I also foiled the fins like a wing, bump in the front, thin in the back, 5" tall, 10" bases.
I have read that most of Simmons’ attention was to the bottom and the rails. I know I like mine so much that I started shaping a new one before the old one sold!
My rails are bladed, about a dime size radius, all the way down at the tail with the foil staying there until 24" from the nose where they roll up onto the nose. My first was a slight hull and it had the concave in the tail. Simmons didn’t always put in a concave, he said that the area already had lower pressure and lift. My next one does not have it. The spooned out nose is for the rail to roll up on, I have seen them with flatter spoons and deep spoons, my first was pretty deep onto the S deck.
“He moved a small fin to each outboard
rail at the end and towed them in to 10º. This is because the water is
moving the fastest at these points as it leaves the hull.”
“A very few of his boards had concave
bottoms. Simmons said he did this to get air into them briefly,
reducing the suction. The center of the hull has a low pressure flow
down the center area anyway. He reduced it even more with a concave.
But his concentration was focused on what was happening out on the rail.”
luis, I’m in the same boat so to speak on the rocker numbers. I’ve got 50+ pictures of different mini sims on my computer along with lots of notes. Dimensions vary…
Jeff McCallum Mini-Simmons Model
Length 5’6
Width 22
Thickness 3 1/4
Tail 19
Nose 19 1/2
Joe Bauguess Mini-Simmons Casper
Length 5’8
Width 23
Thickness 3
Tail 19
Nose ?
As for rocker, still up in the air for me too. ??
[img_assist|nid=1041239|title=rocker?|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=640|height=191]But I’m considering scaling down from one of my favorite 6’4" boards which should come out to around 4" nose and just over 1" tail. At least I’ll have a rocker that’s familiar. Still fuzzy about how to factor in the bottom shape.
I´ve seen the speed they achieve and the kind of manouevre they make; I don´t believe that it will be easy for me, because these boards are “small” preventing me to paddle easily and the miss of stability that a longboard has.
This concept is to be ride like this, but as I have a Kneeboard, (6´0" x 22") when i tried to surf with her, was very dificult to catch the waves and in 2 hours I only caught ONE wave standing up and the others were in knee position (with no fins, of course…).
Is it the same kind of board or does she is more “confortable”?
