Sorry to spoil the dream;).
might surf it in a club comp one day if there is a nice right bank…
Finished the mini simmons thing This arvo…
Get it wet!!
Yew! Did this morning.
So… did you win?
That looks awesome. I havnt seen or had much to do with asymmetric boards or rabbit foot boards but this has blown my mind on the subject. It all makes sense seeing how it rides on the videos. Looks great on the waves. I got to make me one one day. Great job on the boards, hope the rabbit foot rides well for you.
This is the skinnyminisimmons all done and firing
no the festival is in march, the finless is the 10th and 11th.
i got a chance to ride it a few times in up to double over head rights but they were wind effected and it held in and flew really well.
AAAANNNNDDDD the the finless heat for the festival was held in one foot onshore SLOP! and my board that was designed for noosa perfect right handers was not suited to it, needless to say i didn’t make the final;(
The final four days later was heald in perfect 3 foot right handers, oooooo thats gotta hurt…
Anyway i have beed riding a new one i have recently built so i will do a build thread on it soon.
have a great day all
Been riding the heck out of this skinny mini simmons, very cool, and i need to get back out on the rabbits foot soon.
sk8ment, it’s pretty funny that we both made R-foot-inspired boards with the point on the wrong side (for goofy vs reg foot). I say that because the point of the tail point is to provide a rudder on the toe side, and I would guess that you had some findings that were as “serendipitous” as my own: for a regular foot rider, having the point on the “wrong” side allow for some things (e.g. my bud’s 180 kick-flips – not flipping the board, but kicking it 180 degrees) that having the point on the “right” wide would prevent.
Personally, less advanced a rider, I found that the side with the tail point reeeeeeally really pulled hard (created a lot more drag than the shorter side), and this was even more noticeable when bellyriding the board – I feel like those waves where I belly ride the finless boards really reveal much more plainly what’s going on with the board. When bellyriding the 1st finless I made (with the tail point on the heel side of the board for a regfoot rider), I could very much feel the uneven drag side-to-side; it was plain as day. I surf poorly backside, so I think it stood out to me much more bellyriding – even when going right – than when standing. It wasn’t an ambiguous sort of thing – the difference was very, very plain.
One thing that interested me about your board was that you reversed the rail lines relative to the tail point (or it looked to me, after 3 post-surf glasses o’ wine like ya did), i.e. the original R-foot puts the tail point on the same side as the long rail line, with the straighter, longer rail-line on the same side as the tail point. If I understood the pics correctly, this is reversed on your board. I wonder what the effects of that seem to be, when riding the board.
Also, one thing I have noticed with my finless boards – and not just mine, but in watching vids of other finless boards – is that wave size/power is much more critical than with traditional boards. Finless boards that do well in HH and smaller will usually top out around HH+1, if not sooner. “The Beater,” a small foamy that seems/looks to surf very well in weak/small surf without fins, for example, looks to turn to shyte when the waves get HH and bigger.
I was inspired by sk8’s efforts early on in the year and built one…there is a thread somewhere…was a good experience but I put it aside as there were no wavea where I am…However. …I’ve fill coated the deck today and looking at it now again…im looking forward to finishing it off completel…waxing it up…and making an ass of myself !!!..most challenging board ive built to date !!!
Short on time, but will hopefully post more later: timely (the first 13 o 14 minutes) for any one who’s been making and playing around with finless boards, looking at what’s out there as well as puzzling through making one’s own: http://surfsimply.com/podcast/ - #19 “In the Thick of It” podcast.
Not that it matters but I would say your “mini” is all tomo modern planning hull and not a minisimons.
nice that you are working on the finless angle, i ride prone paipos, with huls stolen from simmons/wegener
Have you bumped into wegener to show him the rabbits foot?
I’d never seen a tomo at the time this one was done up, but i had made a 21.5 inch wide mini simmons, and this one was a skinnier version of the same board. But yes it has a planing hull.
It was designed by Grant Newby. He has been doing simmons boards with planing hulls in the nose for quite a while.
Its a sick board though…
And yes i met and chatted with tom at the noosa festival of surfing. He was digging it.