keep the pictures coming.
They are the best I have seen.
I've been riding a black carbon Moses T38 all year so far and I've yet to have any trouble with this at all. It's just not hard to spot, even in the dark green (and sometimes brownish) water we have here in the river.jumptheshark wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 1:13 pm@ WH Lithuania and anyone else riding an all black set up.
Would love to hear your strategies for keeping visual track of your board.
All surfboards are planing hulls, and hydrofoils are neither planing nor displacement hulls. Calling any surfboard a "displacement hull" because it's not perfectly flat (or slightly concave) on the bottom is laughable.Kamikuza wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 1:58 pmGoing off topic here, but the belly bottom got me interested in reading...
http://www.surfscience.com/topics/surfb ... ment-hulls
Seems like they're saying the OPPOSITE of what we have today for kiting small waves -- which seems to be planing hull with double V front and flat or channels to the rear.
...wonder how deep a belly you could go, to get volume under the front foot but with a narrower width up there...
This is idiotic and clearly demonstrable as false. The "theoretical hull speed" (which is also a grossly oversimplified calculation to the point of being mostly useless, BTW) of my J/70 sailboat is 1.34 * sqrt(22.75) = 6.4 knots. I have sailed this boat at speeds up to about 18 knots. You know what it does when it goes fast? It *planes*. Above about 9 knots of boat speed, a J/70 will come out of the water up onto a plane, just like a surfboard, and despite the fact that the bottom is not perfectly flat.“The faster you go, the more the surfboard actually sucks into the water,” explains Mast. “It holds you in for control, but the downside is the speed limit. If you take a sailboat, for example, and pull it faster than the theoretical hull speed limit of that boat, it will actually submarine."
There's a lot of anecdotal beliefs masquerading as knowledge in that link. It's true that a little bit of knowledge is dangerous.Kamikuza wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 1:58 pmGoing off topic here, but the belly bottom got me interested in reading...
http://www.surfscience.com/topics/surfb ... ment-hulls
Seems like they're saying the OPPOSITE of what we have today for kiting small waves -- which seems to be planing hull with double V front and flat or channels to the rear.
...wonder how deep a belly you could go, to get volume under the front foot but with a narrower width up there...
So where are the sources of knowledge? That was the top hit that actually contained something about "belly bottoms" and not some dodgy photos or diet sites...rynhardt wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 6:34 pmThere's a lot of anecdotal beliefs masquerading as knowledge in that link. It's true that a little bit of knowledge is dangerous.Kamikuza wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2019 1:58 pmGoing off topic here, but the belly bottom got me interested in reading...
http://www.surfscience.com/topics/surfb ... ment-hulls
Seems like they're saying the OPPOSITE of what we have today for kiting small waves -- which seems to be planing hull with double V front and flat or channels to the rear.
...wonder how deep a belly you could go, to get volume under the front foot but with a narrower width up there...
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