what are the drawbacks to the sidebites? thanks kirk
Just a bit more drag, and the board wont be so lose.
I find them helpful in a steeper hollow face, you can hold a real tight line; where a single can drift.
Also harder to slide out when trying to turn aggressively.
Kirk, I wonder which have been your all time favourite hulls?
Many hull riders have applied a tail bead to their rides. If the function of the bead is a superior design feature, why haven’t GL or any other hull manufacturers made the bead a standard feature on the boards. Maybe KP or Matt could also comment on GL’s thoughts (with his permission) or their own conclusions regarding the aftermarket additions.
Gregs boards have a really good edge on them now. I might add a bead if I ding the tail, thats mostly why we did it.
Ditto on KP’s statement. When I first read about this I thought it was some new thing, but I realized I’ve been applying them for years as I damage my nose or tail. (Common when going sans leash at a point break). When the first ding happens then it gets built up.
So after riding an Alaia for the last month and being completely hooked on the finless feel,
I thought about doing it on one of my hulls. O.K. its fun. Then seeing Mr. Hynd in Musica Surfica
got me spinning (ha ha). Anyway this is want I came up with…
Loss of that twisted fin unloading but, very interesting trim and holding a new line…
i saw brian riding this board today at the secret spot. he was surfing it really well and super creative. clean and smooth. i was impressed! it was a swaylocks morning at the bruce sharpe overlook- i saw pcinsc with his john mellor shaped mind bender. it looked really interested. i hope i get a spin on it soon.
would you care to share any detail about what appears to be box reinforcements in those pictures?
Reset the pin so I could slide the fin further back in the box,
big blob of suncure resin; used my fingers to shape it under and flow away.
Sand into clean form. I did that 2 or 3 times on a hot afternoon.
So I recently sold a 5’10" Weber Easy Rider, in looking at all of these hulls, in comparison it seems like the easy rider was actually an early precursor to the hull. It had a S-deck with down rails, but the rest was somewhat different. It was a great board and floated me pretty well being that it was probably 3.5" thick, kinda wishing i didnt sell it. It only seemed to work on lined up point break type waves, something we dont have a lot of here on the east coast. But when the conditions came together, that board was awesome.
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would you care to share any detail about what appears to be box reinforcements in those pictures?
That are just to wooden plates at both sides of the finbox (+/- same depth)
In the past when windsurferboards were made in PU/poly they did that for reinforcing the fin. In surfing it’s not nessesary but it wont hurt either.
motif – that’s a nice looking board… the mini-skeg is interesting too. The skeg, you saying you cut on old fin down, and then used sun-cure with chopped mat to extend it back. looks like it’s bonded to the board…
Curious too, the board, who made it? ( i can’t see the logo)
Sorry to throw this one in here but it seemed like the right thing to do…
If any of you hullicks can’t make it to a certain garage, head on down to San Clemente and get into the Surfing Heritage Foundation Museum. Although not grouped together, the Hull Holy Trinity is there for all to see and feel. First wrap your hands around the Liddle Smoothie for a reference, then head to the back row and grab any one of the Simmons boards. Feel familiar? Then ambulate over to the Greenough Edge and check out the foil and rocker. Look familiar?
There are a bunch of transition era boards with S-decks (and even some S-Rails!). Well worth the donation. Don’t miss it!
did you get a chance to peek at the S-decks they had up in the rafters?
we got casey drunk and stole his keys…there’s some crazy stuff up there.
diablo- i prefer using bondo too add edge or to shape in more roundness to rail.once i get it tuned in then i’ll run some resin over it to “seal” better.i think dirt is the one that really started the resin bead exaggeration on nose and tail for ding protection…
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diablo- i prefer using bondo too add edge or to shape in more roundness to rail.once i get it tuned in then i’ll run some resin over it to “seal” better.i think dirt is the one that really started the resin bead exaggeration on nose and tail for ding protection…
I going to try “re-shaping” the tail of my stringerless to make it a little wider and rounder by adding resin/fiberglass. Should be fun. Just sand it off if I don’t like it.
Oh yeah, sorry… “Box reinforcements” duh
Hans said it perfectly. B. Miller is a windsurf guy as well.