My newest creation

[Surfdad]

It weighs 3 pounds 3 ounces. Corecell A500 skin and rails, kevlar sandwich layer and zylon external lamination. It's hard to see in the picture, but both the red and blue are metalflake - the red has gold flecks and the blue has silver flecks.

[KonaKing]

Very nice SD. I thought maybe you and the misses had another baby.

[NICKYPOO]

3 pounds, 3 oz?! Neato.

What's the story on the Mopar in the background?

[dogbert]

Very nice SD. I thought maybe you and the misses had another baby.

Looks that way, but he's flying solo

[Surfdad]

You guys are funny. Thanks for the props too!

Hey Nick, do you like that ancient Roadrunner? It's a 69. The numbers indicate that it should be a 383 and an auto tranny, but it has a 400 and the A-833 transmission.

I have a client that sells used cars and he rented out part of his building to a street rod collector/builder. Sadly, the guy passed away leaving his widow something like 30 cars. My favorite was a Vega with a 327 shoe-horned in, and the rear was tubbed for some crazy slicks.

Anyway...I bought the RR from the estate as a father and son project way back when. Then, James discovered girls We work on it a bit now and again, but budgetarily speaking it's less than I'd like.

[KonaKing]

You guys are funny. Thanks for the props too!

Hey Nick, do you like that ancient Roadrunner? It's a 69. The numbers indicate that it should be a 383 and an auto tranny, but it has a 400 and the A-833 transmission.

I have a client that sells used cars and he rented out part of his building to a street rod collector/builder. Sadly, the guy passed away leaving his widow something like 30 cars. My favorite was a Vega with a 327 shoe-horned in, and the rear was tubbed for some crazy slicks.

Anyway...I bought the RR from the estate as a father and son project way back when. Then, James discovered girls We work on it a bit now and again, but budgetarily speaking it's less than I'd like.

Nice I had a vega with a 350 in it in high school. Power glide with a 3000 rpm stall converter. Never could keep a rear end under it

[Surfdad]

That was all the rage back in the day - stuff a V-8 in an 1,800 pound rolling chassis. I'm trying to visualize the frame twist on your Vega, Kona. Coming off the line HARD must have lifted one of the front tires off the ground just from wrapping up.

[KonaKing]

That was all the rage back in the day - stuff a V-8 in an 1,800 pound rolling chassis. I'm trying to visualize the frame twist on your Vega, Kona. Coming off the line HARD must have lifted one of the front tires off the ground just from wrapping up.

ya it didnt last to long. I also would crush the header pipes on speed bumps and drive ways. Got tired of heating and welding them back up. After that I switched to motorcycles much faster and cheaper too.

200+ on a Hyabusa, cut the rev limiter and your on your way everyone is doing now but I did back in 2001

kids these days.

[Surfdad]

Loved the way this board rode. The Corecell makes the board respond well.

[Surfdad]

And a little ollie-oop 3

[tigesinaus]

looks awesome, do the cutouts towards the tail make much difference to how it rides?

[Timmy!]

Man, James makes that look too easy - jumps on a brand new board that dad builds and makes the rest of us look like chumps! LOL! Nice build!

[Surfdad]

Thanks Timmy - yeah, James is quite talented!

Hey tigeinaus, those are referred to as wings, or sometimes they will be called "bumps". You might hear a descrption of a board as "double bump" that would be a board with two wings going back to the tail.

The wings, in theory, shouldn't help a board for behind the boat much. However, what it DOES allow is for a straighter outline around the fin pods. If you look at how I build this board or others, I actually add a piece of foam to the "general" outline to make the wing or bump. What that does is allow the outline to have a more straight section of rail around the fins and therefore more drive. Also, if you look at the small section of the tail just behind the wing, that area TOO is straight again offering more drive.

When we set out to design this board for James, what we wanted more than anything else was "squirt" - rapid acceleration with the least amount of effort AND where more effort generated more acceleration. The tail design is squared at the very back, with a round going forward to avoid catching a corner during surface tricks. We found the currect size of the tail to be the best for James, so the wings became the way to quickly narrow the board from it's wide point down to the "predetermined" size AND give us the straightest rail line around the fins.

[tigesinaus]

Thanks Timmy - yeah, James is quite talented!

Hey tigeinaus, those are referred to as wings, or sometimes they will be called "bumps". You might hear a descrption of a board as "double bump" that would be a board with two wings going back to the tail.

The wings, in theory, shouldn't help a board for behind the boat much. However, what it DOES allow is for a straighter outline around the fin pods. If you look at how I build this board or others, I actually add a piece of foam to the "general" outline to make the wing or bump. What that does is allow the outline to have a more straight section of rail around the fins and therefore more drive. Also, if you look at the small section of the tail just behind the wing, that area TOO is straight again offering more drive.

When we set out to design this board for James, what we wanted more than anything else was "squirt" - rapid acceleration with the least amount of effort AND where more effort generated more acceleration. The tail design is squared at the very back, with a round going forward to avoid catching a corner during surface tricks. We found the currect size of the tail to be the best for James, so the wings became the way to quickly narrow the board from it's wide point down to the "predetermined" size AND give us the straightest rail line around the fins.

thanks for explaining that, i have seen the wings on a fair few surfboards and wondered what their purpose was..