Hey TO, I didn't mean to derail your build thread. Post some more pics of your progress and we'll save physics class discussion for another thread.
Hey Mike - I thought the same thing, start a thread about that, but I certain don’t feel like it’s a “derail” of the thread. It seems of interest to some of us.
John - indeed part of my thought is the compound curves built in with the “step deck” kinda like the “stretch deck channel,” not that he invented it, but he did seem to bring it to more of the masses. The pink stringerless I made, which got @ 4" pancake bubble on the deck, and I poked a hole in it and kept riding, then the glass cracked on a heavy day all the way across the deck through the bubble area, but the crack stopped at the “reverse curve” between the belly and rail…
For fun I’ll say, thats what the groves are for in the last third, and I moved them in from the rail, and kept the deck flat, in part, due to what you’ve written about tail flex and the effect different compound curves has on flex. Part of my thinking was to try to allow some flex in the tail/fin area. Not sure, but I’ll let ya’ll know when I’ve gotten a chance to feel it out myself.
C'mon, C'mon, C'mon TaylorO, make with the pics !
I'm dying to see it.
Have you glassed it yet, I wanna see the fins, are you doing the 2 piece finlet system Ive heard about ??
All in good humour, as yu know, Taylor !
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Ok ok - It’s lammed and “baking…”
I’m working(my job), working at getting our new house ready to move into, mentally preparing to move out of the house we’ve lived in for 5 1/2 years(The longest I’ve lived in any place since I was a little kid.) - which includes the breaking down of my beloved sanctuary, aka “the shed.” So, I’m fitting in the board as I can. I got so stoked over the winter break that I “whipped” out the blank in one night(usually I drag it out for days…) shaped fast, for me, and got it lammed up, so now it can bake, and if things go real unexpectedly, it’ll be ready to finish up. My goal is to have it ridable before I have to take the shed apart(Plus some other little tweaks and fin work.)
Not sure I’ll put MVG’s on it. But I may try on the front fins. I think the power of the MVG is in reducing the negative aspects of a center fin, which is always in opposition to the side fins - I’ve heard MVG’s didn’t have a pronounced effect on side fins on a tri. That being said, I put some MVG’s in front of the front fins on my 11’r, as I want all the help I can get, but I’m not sure I noticed as I hadn’t ridden it much before I put them on.
It’ll be a quad, with “custom” rear fins to start.