Evolution how it works
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Evolution how it works
Leave the board in wet beach sand for a month, and the fins grow out
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Re: Evolution how it works
Looks like you have a fellow traveller when it comes to the parallel fins. Have you ridden it yet?
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Re: Evolution how it works
Hilarious. If you leave 2 in the sand, you might just end up with 3, or at least eggs.
Very vaguely reminds me of obscure board I briefly had in mid '90's. I was molded from almost literally "bomb proof" automobile bumper foam and had chine rails, molded "fins" like on your original posted above (though closer to 1/2 way between midline and rails), and very slightly dished deck. Problem was it had plenty of volume and then some, for a 300 pound Samoan. And I weigh about 125 lbs. It was so dense I could not cut or sand it to thin it, at least not with hand tools. Some sort of free hand hotwire would have possibly saved the day. I never could handle the volume enough in water to get any sort of feel for how it rode.
Very vaguely reminds me of obscure board I briefly had in mid '90's. I was molded from almost literally "bomb proof" automobile bumper foam and had chine rails, molded "fins" like on your original posted above (though closer to 1/2 way between midline and rails), and very slightly dished deck. Problem was it had plenty of volume and then some, for a 300 pound Samoan. And I weigh about 125 lbs. It was so dense I could not cut or sand it to thin it, at least not with hand tools. Some sort of free hand hotwire would have possibly saved the day. I never could handle the volume enough in water to get any sort of feel for how it rode.
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Re: Evolution how it works
Looking forward to this test
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Re: Evolution how it works
i'm guessing your going to have to move very far back on the board to get over the fins and make them the turn pivot point loosing speed and plane.
What was your design idea of the fins so far back?
What was your design idea of the fins so far back?
http://www.sdfsurfboards.co.uk/ built my paipo!
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Re: Evolution how it works
Strangely it needs me to move far forward when riding on steep faces, not one of my better boards still better than a sponge board
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Re: Evolution how it works
Would you consider making the fins smaller?
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Re: Evolution how it works
They were smaller it was 2 weeks work to make them larger I wish I could change between the two on the test day
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Re: Evolution how it works
So what's next?
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Re: Evolution how it works
YES BUT NO
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