I have just finished a 4’8 x 21" x 1 5/8" wakesurfer. It has a flat bottom, 1/2" tail rocker & 2.5" nose rocker (faily flat through the middle). It is set up as a twin fin, with fins 10.5" up, 1.5" off the rails with 1/8" toe in and 4 degrees cant. It also has a wing approximately 8.5" up, after which is comes into the diamond tail. Rails are pretty medium from nose to midsection, having a hard edge for the last 1/3 of the board (but still reasonably full).
Essentially, this was the first board I made without constraints, so was essentially a test board that I could further refine. Surprisingly, it actually performs pretty well with the only real criticism I have being that it almost pearls when stomping down airs and landing front foot heavy. While this is arguably a user problem, I think making a wider nose would make it more user friendly for those learning. To this effect, I was thinking of altering the outline so that it essentially had a squared off nose at 5-6" wide.
The board feels pretty good as far as maneouverability goes (despite its width), and fin placement/set up seems to have the right amount of hold/release. Importantly, the boards seems to be able to recover when you get back on the wake (i.e. equivalent to making it through fat sections), but feels like it lacks drive. I am not sure if this is because I’m used to pumping on surfboards with concave under the front foot and am thinking it would benefit from a small concave?
Please let me know any thoughts. Other ideas I have had have included using a twinzer set up (although despite a heap of reading am not convinced it will provide any real benefits to the application), or a wider tail (but worried this could affect maneouverability).
