Over the past 18 months with your help, I've built three boards. First was 7'6 funboard, the second, a 9'6 LB, and a 6'2" HPSB. The funboard floats and paddles me just right and works perfectly in the small mushy 2-4' NJ summer waves, but sluggish in clean waves. The 9'6" is my true pride, as it's super fast and turns gracefully. The 6'2", as you warned me, is on the shelf waiting for me get stronger and smarter in the water :)
In hindsight, I realize that I really jumped around between these designs. Although i've learned a lot, I think I'll learn even more by taking a closer look at board number one 7'6 funboard, and making an iteration. Specificallty, decide how to make a copy of it with very small changes so it performs well in clean waves compared to the original. I just "blueprinted the original and attached the PDF here. It's fun to ride in sloppy waves because I can float it over white water and it's easy to to ride. But when i was out riding it this week in glassy 3-4' waves, I realized it turns slow and lacks response, it feels boaty.
For my new build, my plan to make it work in clean waves is:
1. Reduce rail profile thickness a lot
2. Turn the 50/50 rails down to 60/40
3. Extend sharp rail edge at tail up towards middle.
4. Move rocker apex from center back towards tail slightly
5. Add slight flip in nose
7. Reduce tail width and nose width just a bit
7. Reduce length by 3"
8. Current bottom contour is fair amount of belly from nose to mid point, then flat all the way to tail. Change this to slight belly in nose > flat > concave > flat
9. All of this will reduce volume overall, so add 1/2" width to keep it floating me the way I like
I'd apprecite any feedback. Thanks
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