005

ok,

so the hull-type rails didn't work out as well as hoped. definately loose, but i can't really put my finger on it. it was almost as if i didn't have enough driving rail coming off the bottom and always felt tentative. even leaning hard into roundhouses, it just didn't feel like i was getting much momentum out of the turns. also you could really feel the thinness of the tail. on one turn, i actually caught myself hanging my heel off the side of the tail trying to bury the rail. odd. going to try moving the fin block back to within 4" of the tail this time. going to expand on the single channel, but ditch the bump squash in lieu of a sharp swallow tail. encountered that same strange high speed humming with the quad set up. i've been told that it's to do with the sharpness of the trailing edges of the foil, but i wonder if it isn't also somehow related to the forward placement of the fin group and the turbulence created by the tightness of the fins. weird feeling too when at that certain high speed, humming, the board seemed to lock into a line almost as if it were hydroplaning. didn't do so well in over head high surf, but shoulder to head high the size seemed good. going to take an inch off of 005 though, make it a straight 6'0".

somehow, in imagining the flow of water across the bottom and out the back, the squash always seemed so unresolved. i think water interprets its path with the same misunderstanding and somehow the drive just gets lost. it's interesting to imagine and direct the hydrodynamic course of water across surfaces, and determine how it will then be projected off of those surfaces.