Cool Photo, and smooth style.
The idea with the emergency foil blankets is to pretty much cover all the walls with it, and hope that enough UV reflects around the room to do the job.
Yes rails! It took me a while to get going on this subject. At the moment I’m hooked on the subject. So many conflicting opinions while doing my research.
Again a lot of it depends whats going on with the rocker and contours.
My experience is that harder rails the more grip you get in the wave… upto a point, but they can just let go if you are pushing really hard, and there is not much time for recovery, so they are faster as they are cutting into and displacing water, kind of acting as a fin. Depends on the amount of tuck… Which obviously is the difficult part to get right!
I’m just starting to appreciate that rails can really influence the ‘pivot point’ of a board, by that I mean where the point at which the board turns around. I am assuming that we want the main pivot point around the front fins, If the hard edge from the tail goes too far up, which is possibly something that I have been sleepwalking into this can move the pivot point up too far, and here we can get un-controlable slide from too far up the board as opposed to ‘good’ or ‘controllable’ slide or release from further back.
The thing is hard edges can really throw a hell of a lot of spray, as they are cutting into and displacing water, and like that it sheers off the bottom of the board, plus you have something that will push back at you (as long as you don’t go over the boards limit) while turning???
This area around the front fins is the area that I am most interested in, how far to take that super hard edge to keep control, I think that the general concensus is that it should be around 4 inches in front of the front fins, assuming that the amount of tuck is increasing as well.
As I remember this board had the super hard edge probably between 6-8 inches up from the front fins, so I think a few inches too many.
I thought that I would put a couple more pics up and be hyper critical to try and explain what i am saying,
Pic 1, buckets of spray and power, the board pushing back, and water being released and shot out from under the board
Pic 2, The board planing, probably too much, still releasing a lot of water that possibly could give a skimboard effect and less rail control in bigger surf?
Pic 3, Super Hard edge on rail in-front of the front fins releasing the tail end of the board too early before the turn is 100% complete? And not enough controlled smooth pivot around the front fin area?
Interested to hear your views, and if you agree with most of this or if I’m talking out of my rear end
