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View of the rocker. These boards were all built by starting with a 'fish' blank from US Blanks. Same dims; 6-3 x 29

This board was an earlier concept....same virtual template (but with more of a nose beak...), but with a flatter bottom and the twin fins.

Cuttlefish, Where I'm going with these types of prone surfing devices really requires almost a complete re-thinking of what has perhaps become the 'standard' in bellyboard design. To answer your questions specifically- *How thick? I'm guessing 3", or thereabouts. More like a traditional fish (*...

Spudnut,

I'd love to surf with you guys. Get ahold of me next time you're up, and we'll make it happen.

Too true. U.G, our fathers had indeed learned a few things along the way; the problem was always letting it sink in..... Let's face it, this is a glorious time to be a surfer. In no other time period have so many varied designs and approaches been supported..............and validated. These are trul...

U.G. Yeah, John is a fantastic guy who's into trying all manner of things, I'm lucky to have him so close by to experiment with. I remember that 'Gathering' up at Plaskett that he went to, I was out of town or would have attended (*I was married up on that ridge, and have been camping there for over...

Here's a buddy riding it on a nice snappy little beachbreak day at an uknown location..... the length and width seems to work for all sorts of various sized riders, and is a benefit that seems to translate across the board?

In the end, it's been a fun and challenging trail, working up various design components and trying each to see which would accomplish what I was trying to do? So few guys (let alone shapers...) are into pursuing this particular type of thing, so on many levels it's been a solitary exploration? But i...

In the beginning, I was having boards shaped that were more along the Velo vibe............sticking with boards that I called my '5x2's' (*5-0 x 24" wide). They worked fine, and were a huge performance jump from the small bellyboards that used to inhabit the shorebreaks of our youth?

A buddy of mine shaped it, a John Mellor here locally. Had it glassed by Aaron at Central Coast Fiberglass. Below are a shot of the last two iterations of this same concept. To answer the above, I rarely travel below SB, yes that is Morro Rock, and if I cared about duckdiving, I'd have built a hand ...

Now that I've got the board.................it's all about just finding the appropriate venues.

The Greenough fin really seems to help with projection on the turns.

Rides insane, couldn't be happier.

Went with a super long box to allow a lot of experimentation, but where it's at in this photo really seems to be the best fit?

The board is regular PU foam with standard polyester glassing. I've had this same template now for several boards, and I've found that this particular Greenough single fin really works best. The bottom has a slight single concave in the rear third, and the forward 2/3rds are pretty rolled, much like...

This is my first post with photos so we'll see how this goes.... wanted to post up some photos of my new prone device. Dims are 6-3 x 29" wide. Requires a special blank from US Blanks with spacers on either side of the stringer. I've had a series of custom bellyboards over the last fifteen year...