hey chipper and doc strange that board you’re talking about is fun to surf, there is a lot going on with it that i dont understand fully, but a few observations of it since youre interested…
it has A LOT of roll up front, especially for a narrow nose (relative to a wider nose purer traditional fish outline)
the roll blends into vee/spiral vee thru the fins and out the back
its somewhere around 5-8 x 19 3/8 x 2 3/8 with a concave deck, very pronounced in the last 2 feet. I find this provides helpful feedback of knowing how far back and how close to the rail your backfoot is, but cant consciously feel any ‘flex’ that design aspect may provide
so with this ‘convex’ mentality and generous (for a fish) rocker it doesnt really grovel well, i wouldnt really consider it fast like boards that are flatter/have more concave in general, even with the more traditional wide tail…
i mean you can make it go in tiny stuff but i dont really enjoying pumping all aggro, i have been growing towards just hard fades and rail turns as much as possible and pumping as little as possible…
i consider that ‘convex mentality’ as a interesting way to facilitate control in such a wide tailed twin fin board.
it seems to allow the board to be surfed harder and, in terms of a fish, can be surfed in more critical parts of the wave/oh conditions. In general I am not very fond of super aggresive vees and rolls, and it took me a lot of time to adjust to the board.
in terms of the vertical comment it was in the context of twin keeled fish…it goes vertical (in the right wave such as a bowly left for me about shoulder high) and seems recoverable more easily than other twin keels i have surfed…in my opinion the fins are a huge factor in this, but its only my opinion. It is still challenging to do and requires the right wave/timing like most things.
rails are fairly soft and full midboard and up front, but nose to tail there is a definite tucked edge, even more pronounced than black beauty style, but obviously falling short of greenough edge radicalness. This is an interesting feature in a board with so much roll. The rear two feet of railline is extremely downrailed.
by the way it kneeboards like shit, i guess the outline is just wrong for that discipline (too narrow), but i think a lot of the attributes would work well in a kneeboard for good surf
i dont remember having any really impressive turns/waves on it on the trip personally, and i dont really know or care if there are photos of it, i do recall seeing a few backside at a small little point/reef wave that were ok. Sadly I was already back at work on the days of all the shots on this thread so far. looks like everyone got some fun surf (bastids!)!
Anyway it is good to see everyone had a great time and was relatively respectful to the area and each other, thanks and take care
