just thinking of a possible project…maybe this summer. I’ve never done a stringerless board. I was thinking of 7’4 ish with about 4" nose rocker and 1 1/4" tail rocker. I can’t seem to find a blank with tail rocker that low cause I normally order custom glue ups. any suggestions. A longboard blank could work. any other suggestions? what have you done?
Maybe you can’t find a suitable blank, because it isn’t a good design = )
Stringerless is only going to give you an additional half inch to maybe an inch of tail rocker during a hard turn. At the start of your turn, the rocker you shape is the rocker you got. To flat will be hard to initiate the turn.
Stringerless are often with something else to stiffen it. Coil uses carbon mesh and extra stiff fabric. I use a D cell sandwich on mine. Stringerless and standard glassing should have a little less tail rocker, but not too flat.
Shape your standard nose rocker, and half inch less tail rocker for un-reinforced stringerless.
I’d like to hear input on this from those more experienced. I’ve only experimented with five different stringerless build designs so far.
I guess I should have been more specific…this will be a “displacement hull” type design. no carbon, no stringer. I have built previous stringered designs with very similar numbers and had results that I liked. thanks for the info though
Yes astevens, I find it best to get a blank that’s a little longer and cut off the tail to get less tail rocker. Reducing tail rocker when laminating is another option but I stay away from that because it tends to be a can of worms.
Making a good rocker jig for both the bottom and the deck and is worth the effort because its so easy to mess up the rocker when glassing.