I shaped my first board ,a six o mini from a eight nine blank. I’m at the finishing stage except now I have a very thick tail. My question is will the thickness affect how the board rides in terms of turning or is it just cosmetic. A shaper friend of mine said to block plane the tail area and thin it out … Any other sugestions would be great… Also anyone new to shaping read the rail band thread by b barnfield. It helpedme greatly. Thanks all
Totally depends what you like.
I've had 6'x21" squash tails with almost a 3" thicktail (measured a foot up), and it worked fine. I pulled in the tail from a WPoint 6" ahead of center, V'd the tail bottom 3/8" on each side, and concaved the WPoint forwards. The tail lifted immediately on sensing a swell, so I was paddling downhill from there. Fin was a 13" saber single fin swept, and held in fine up to just overhead.
Need more fin the shorter the rail you plan to surf. Less fin the more rail you plan to engage.
Nowadaze, you can just go quad.