Which is the name of this Tail ?

General Discussion
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Hi guys, I cant find wich is the name of this kind of tail, if anybody knows the name and the features will be very useful !

this is the link where you can see the board and the tail:

http://www.localalliancesurfboards.com/paginas/tabla_Qlengan.html

Thanks!!!

 

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That’s a ‘‘Felix’’ tail, named because it looks like a cat head.

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Fang-Tail

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a thumb tail with a hangnail

(just kidding)

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Actually, its proper name is “The 3 Surfers In the World Tail”.

Because there’s probably only 3 surfers alive who could actually say that those little zits make one tiny bit of noticeable difference in the boards performance…

Narcisistic affectation - pure and simple…

But…if Kelly rides it…it must work…

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gimmick tail?

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…but it looks cool

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…do not forget the Tomo boards…those are king of the gimmicks

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1st two responses are pretty much what I’d say. Fang Tail and Felix the Cat. But I’m sure someone here thinks it’s a fish.

I always thought the fangs are at the end of channels so they aren’t just little tips. There’s a channel down the middle section of the bottom of the board. I’m not sure if it’s a vee like a double concave or just a single flat section. I think Lost was making those too.

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I would think that the points on this tail “do nothing” in the same way that the wings on any board “do nothing” - thats all this is man, a rounded tail with low-placed wings

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I've seen a couple with channel bottoms - each channel exiting just inside the 'ears.'   Each board had quad fins and looked pretty nice.

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..."Bat Wing"........

???????????

Hard to shape, hard to glass......good stuff for the repair guy.

I'm a repair guy...keep up the good work! 

Stingray

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Bat wing is more of a three-point swallow

I’d say it’s a winged-thumbnail 

 

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Without the points,  Lost calls these “rocket tails” . 

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I shaped a board I was planning on putting a round tail on, and when I got to the end of the process, it looked too wide at the tailblock to me. So I kept the rail line, but winged it down at the bottom, then rounded the the tail. Thought it was a good compromise to keep the width I wanted under the back foot, maintain the longer, straighter rail line, but loosen it up a bit behind the trailing fin. I thought I was being creative… until I brought it out to show the glasser and said, “what do you think? I just came up with this, and I think it will work, and looks cool too.” He said, “a Lost tail?” I’m like, “what?” “Oh yea,” he says… “Lost does a lot of them.”

I just slunked back into the darkness…

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Nothing’s new in surfing NJ…haha

~Brian