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Been a while Keith...Probably the most obvious example is holding a high line on a steep face. A finless board can get there, but has difficulty staying there. A properly finned board can get there and stay there. Personal experience and reports from customers support this. I frequently get reports ...

"Regarding the utility of fins..." just depends on where you want to surf on the wave. Finless boards take different lines than finned boards, but either line can be "fun".

The bottom of your board is very similar to how I shape the T-Bellys. What you refer to as "wings" are essentially the sides of what I call "exit concaves". That curved surface presents quite a challenge for mounting fins. The problem is, if the fin-box (or plug) is installed flush with the surface,...

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Nice! What are the dims? What size fins do you plan to run?

My theory is that maybe I had reached the minimal planing speed for the board, but not for the fins somewhat. The other day I was out on my G5 in barely 3ft surf. It was a very clean, dawn patrol session, and I was out because I was eager to try my new Duck Feet fins. There are times when I'm movin...

No...watching your board bounce around on the rocks is horrific.

Rod - After last minute discussion with customer, 3 went to Laguna, CA and 2 went to Oldsmar, FL

Krusher - It's what I recommend for hard surface boards with hard fins.

Here are five G5s that are headed to Florida. This photo shows the scalability of the G5 design. Intended riders range in height from 6'2" to 5'6", and in weight from 230lb to 140lbs. Lengths are 52", 50", 46" and 45".

I hoping it will be more of an enhanced bodysurfing experience, finding bliss in the pocket of that hot curl, as opposed to a cut and slash shred-session. Definitely a pointbreak shape...and I just happen to have one close by.

I read that, too, but I'm not buying the "transformation from displacement to planing hull" either, because other than splitting the tail, the design of the hull remains the same, with belly and up-rails throughout. Flatten the bottom rail-to-rail and change the rail shape to a more 60/40 or down-ra...

Just the bottom tail of Roger Hall''s shape...McTavish has also done a Double Hot Curl

My research has uncovered some "Dual Hot Curl" shapes, which is essentially a finless twin V-tail shape. May be more applicable to a prone board...trying not to get distracted

I'll need to do a "proof of concept" first...but I have five G5s to get shipped to Florida first. Oh, and there will need to be some waves to ride, too...where are the waves?

Here's the tail-view of the Quam/Martin design that inspired it hotcurl.jpeg ..., so not quite as deep as the 8’0 x 15 1/2 x 21 7/8 x 16 1/2 x 2 7/8 original, but at 3" pretty deep by prone board standards. I found that it was virtually impossible to go deeper without putting a major kink in the rai...

Shaper’s tend to be very visually-oriented individuals. We prefer to “see” something rather than read about it; we would rather look at a map than follow written directions. We are quick to see spatial relationships and have good visual memory. When Jeff Quam presented his Hot Curl board as part of ...

I thoroughly enjoyed the "Gathering", and meeting RodnDTube, Dr. Robert and Jeff Quam, while renewing my acquaintance with Pes. I especially enjoyed the lively discussion on Sunday morning. While I was looking forward to actually riding some of the shapes I've only read about over the past 8 yrs, th...

Sat 4:30p....uh, where is everybody ?

Day Use Parking is only allowed until sunset...after that, parking available in the The Extra Vehicle parking lot. located at the end of the main park road near the Del Mar RV camping area. With Pes bringing brats, I'm going to bring some hot dogs and buns, a squeeze bottle of catsup & mustard, roll...

If Kage isn't going, will we lose #46?

Rod (#43)
Kage (#46)
Pez
Nels (possible, if can)
Dr. Robert
Thomas 805-856-8554