Board builders - any thoughts on the idea?
viable?

Bombora Astro toy

This idea has been in testing for a while.

Shifu said..
Have to hit the mute button on his vids and play my own music. Jebus !

Cmon Shifu?? Hes called Rob Rock for a reason. Guess hes an old school Metal Rock kinda guy.
But he does build lots of cool things n explores many different unorthodox avenues.

I guess some boats have a planing plank and it's kind of like a water ski once it's up and going. It's not as wide as the jp experimental foil board so should go quicker on the fin. Would it be faster than a board of the same overall width?I wonder if a manufacturer would make one?

How about it in reverse , a tunnel down the middle like a hydroplane ?
Would have to be twin fin so as to not cavitate a middle fin.
Has anyone tried this ?

All he says is super great super lightweight super super .... but no real critique.

When I saw the OP I did wonder about how that added centre strip would make it want to roll to the side - same as vee does.... but only initially as there would be an easy roll for say half, then the roll stops as rail touches. An interesting feel I bet.

So I was interested to see it applied to a SUP but again- its all just a stockist showing us his new stuff that's all super lightweight and super progressive bah blah. The one with massive rounded vee just looks like the belly bottoms used on longboards long ago.... so I'd be interested to hear from those who've actually used them?
I can see much reduced lift so very applicable to foil SUP's (easy touchdowns) but not really usable as a normal board?

Bombora

Sparky said..

Bombora

Isn't this functionly just a very granular V concept? And the the "strange" board an even more extreme, binary version.