yeah mate ill take a pic soon
Don’t know the actual measurements but we thought they should line up with the tips of the bat tail. but the real sciphi lined up with the inner ones not the outer ones.
have you tried it as a quad?
i love my quads, but dont have anything like this!
Not yet but I’m keen as…
A few people wanted to know how it goes.
Ride reports so far. But starting with a random thought or two.
Well first thing I wanna say is that I have seen two production slater design sciphi boards in the last week and both have them have had the tail channels but no belly channels. I assume this is due to the practicality of producing thousands of boards in a Thai factory means it’s too hard to get the quality control with the belly channels. Be very interested to see if the ones stu Kennedy is riding at snapper have the belly channels. Also the tail channels in them seem to be more like traditional channels and not the concaves that the ones on the sciphi boards in the original marketing.
In my opinion the belly channels are the engine room of he design. Leaving them off a the board is like going to a Robert Downey Jr party in the mid 90’s and forgetting to take your nose. (See what I did there)
The board
It’s 5’ 6 5/8" 18.5" by 2 3/8"
The file I made up for it was 5’ 8" but I blew over in the wind in my Staffroom and the rounded nose was born. I kept it fairly volumous to help me paddle it and keep it daily forgiving.
It seems to be going extremely good. It has a wider tail and more straight outline through the rear of the board means it can accelerate super quick and the bat tail and the step in of the outline means you can use the extra rocker on the rail (still fairly low) to turn the board at speed. And the reduced central rocker due to the large single concave in the middle (that’s been split up into 4 concaves) allows the board to get up and plane and lift and therefore go fast really easy
It seems to have encouraged me to get low of the bottom and lean into some really centered bottom turns into some good top turns.
In smaller waves the complex bottom concave in the guts seem to not like the hop between sections but if I get some forced upper body rotation and fin drive it allows me to get through sections better and be almost prepared for a carving turn when the section pops up again.
The enemy of this board in smaller stuff is standing still. It just doesn’t plane very well at low speeds. But I have grovellers for that. If the waves are bigger it’s easy to surf standing still but who wants to?
The fact I have not put the complex concaves in the tail is seeming to work well in the weaker waves I have to deal with on the Sunshine Coast. Seems to allow the water to flow out of the belly with easy speed. Seems to let the tail come around nice. I’ve only surfed it as a thruster so far. I’ve got some quad trailers in the car. It I just haven’t put em in yet.
I’ve been surfing it in SLOP and a few good waves and I’m equally as stoked on it. Due to the low rocker there have been a few times I’ve aimed at a smaller steep section coming off the top and bogging as the board releases from the wave surf face but this is due to a lack of technique I needed to commit my upper body over the front knee and flow down through the turn. It I was under rotating and dividing down the line too much. In good waves it has just been super nice.
So many things.
Nice report thanks!
Designing with a goal in mind, making changes on the fly as you build, picturing how it will perform as you work on it, the uncertainty of the first paddle out, the excitement of that first good wave! Man, I love it when a plan comes together - this is the essence of the backyard shaping experience, to me.
Great pic too!
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