The first thing I realised was their was just too much volume and it just wasn't foiled out enough. I also thought that I had taken enough off the rails to make them pretty sharp but they weren't sharp enough, I could feel that it just wasn't responsive enough coming off the bottom and on top turns.
I was only able to use it as a twinny as I still haven't got a trailing fin yet and one time I noticed the need for the trailing fin was at Fistral, the two big fins had lots of hold but the back just felt a little twitchy. Interesting to see Dane Reynolds using a 2+1 set up in France...
So here I am with a board which I am happy with but its not really blowing my mind, only one thing for it....build another!!!!! :)
Picked up a blank from TriOcean yesterday and it took me a total of 2.5 hrs this morning to shape another board. Everything just kinda clicked and I've felt that Ive really made progress with my shaping.
Dimensions on this one are 5'10" x 19 1/4" x 2 3/8", the outline is very similar to the 6" but I've corrected everything which I felt needed doing. The foil is now more pronouced, the single concave is a little deeper and Ive also extended the double concaves further back and also shortening the flicked out Vee in the tail. Ohh and the best thing about this new board is the rails, fairly low (60/40) and nice and sharp.
Just laminated the bottom this evening and gonna do the top in the morning ready to install the fin boxes when the arrive on Tuesday.
I'II keep this blog updated on how its going and add some more pics at some point.
