12.03.2007

Stringerless Stubbie

Dan Partch just sent over some hand-foiled marine-ply side bites for my newest stringerless project, a 5'9" stubbie 2+1. I've been really stoked lately on sub-6' stubs with spiral vee for navigating around various nugs here in Ocean Beach. Chuck Ames is in the process of making some special 7" volan L-flex fins for Mandala, which should be ready around the time this board's ready to surf...

5'9" stubbo concavo
20.5" x 2.5"
marine-ply side bites
7" volan L-flex






Special thanks to heavy D.Partch for making such beautiful fins. He's the nicest ex-drill sergeant you'll ever meet...
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7 comments:

  1. NunoDecember 4, 2007 at 9:01 AM

    Hey Mani, can you explain in what consists a spiral vee?

    Thanks

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  2. m.caroDecember 4, 2007 at 10:45 AM

    Spiral vee is a double concave through a vee panel. With my concave stubs, I like to have a single concave running into spiral vee. With the single concave under your front foot you can surf it like a shortboard, and the vee in the tail allows the board to set up into cutbacks with a natural feel. The concave through the vee keeps water attached and channeling through the fin cluster. This concave set-up results in a board that allows for maximum rider input...quite the opposite of a hull.

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  3. Paul and HeidiDecember 4, 2007 at 2:37 PM

    Mani-
    Is this concave in the 2 + 1 stubbies you currently have at Mollusk NYC. I am picking up the 5'11" that was sent around the end of oct.

    Thanks

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  4. m.caroDecember 6, 2007 at 10:06 AM

    yeppppppp...

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  5. AnonymousDecember 7, 2007 at 7:31 AM

    Hi Mani, Layman's term pls.. Does it goes zoom....?

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  6. m.caroDecember 7, 2007 at 10:04 AM

    Single concave into a double concave vee:::

    There's vee in that there tail. Single concave under the front foot.
    Double concave under the back foot.

    Goes psssshhhhhhhhh....ka-koww! when you shred it on the breaking combers!

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  7. Rob?royalDecember 13, 2007 at 9:56 AM

    "Goes psssshhhhhhhhh....ka-koww! when you shred it on the breaking combers!"


    lmao...you rock

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