What are the effects of putting keels WAY out on the edge and FAR back?

We’re talking for a wide, short board.  I’m thinking it would make the board be able to hold an edge in steep sections better and be a bit more maneuvarable than if the fins were set in and up more, no?

right back will be drivier, stiffer and less manouverable, moving them forward will reduce this but the trick is to find the happy medium for you and the particular board.....

 

 

 

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It can work if the tail is wide at the end. Put some vee or belly in it so that it will transition to the rail more easily. A Simmons is an extreme end of the spectrum. Check out Fineline Surfboards and how they do their fins.

I asked a shaper why it works to have the fins so far back on wider tailed boards and he said, "Holds all that tail down." But there's no pivot point like on a thruster. I think it also engages the rail in steepness. Peace, C

Scott,

If you want your minisims to be easier to ride, put 'em right on the corners.  If you move them up you will move the center of effort forward.  This will make the board unstable if you put weight on or behind the fins.  You effectively shrink the sweet spot by moving the fins forward.  You can counter-act the problem by cutting a wedge out of the tail but then you'd have a fish instead of the minisims!  Since the board is so short anyway, shrinking the sweet spot is gonna make the board squirrely and unpredictable.  Maybe that's a good thing.  Depends on how you want it to ride.

really depends on planshape and bottom contours I think too, as in any board, mine have more curve androcker than alot so fins are bit different to others but these are such fun boards...very addictive....

bingo LeeV

Your spot on LeeV ...... which is why !!!

displacement / rolled flat'ish type entry, to a blended concave leadind to the control centre, (back foot over finned tail block), makes threading these little critters thru a wave that special feel.

Over rockered, over contoured confuses  the little fella's out of what there meant to do

Cuttlefish's "DMS" prime example of keeping it simple

Huie could probably atest to theory ...... come on Huuuuuuuuuusta give us some more mail

W

My experience in a nutshell.  Move it way back on the tail,  makes it very stiff.  I’ve never surfed a Baugess, though.  Just my own garage jolopies.   I won’t put the fins back there again.  Mine are six inches off the tail, about where I put them on my fishes.  It surfs a bit like a fish, too. Tenover, your board looks awesome.  Mike