Been riding so many different boards lately and in the impact zone when you pull your board back , some boards are always right way up and others are always rolled over.Which means you have to flip the board over to get back on costing you valuable seconds to get through the next wave.

Is it tail shape or plug placement , there was no consistancy some boards just tend to pop right way up. Some boards would toom stone and come back right way up others just rolled over on the first tug of the leg rope.

Made me think that maybe a raised glass roving instead of a plug would help keep the board right way up.........?

Rob

The Evil Twin would always come up 95% of the time wrong way up
My new PSH 8-11 is around 50-50
My 3 year old faithful Ron House 9-10 is 90% right way up .......?

Daneli said...

I seem to have different results with both surfboards and SUP's if I cock my leg up close to my body during the wipeout, just as the pressure on my leggie starts to subside, I straighten my leg releasing the pressure on the board. Sometimes it seems to come up right way up. Sounds weird doesn't it.

Yeah I here you on that , could make a difference and looking at my own photos the Ron has it's plug way foreward compared to the other two.

have you considered rocker and specificly tail rocker....CG came back right way up 90% of the time...new LSD is always upside down and as you pull it back it just wants to submerine...CG is swallow tail and LSD is square tail

husq2100 said...

have you considered rocker and specificly tail rocker....CG came back right way up 90% of the time...new LSD is always upside down and as you pull it back it just wants to submerine...CG is swallow tail and LSD is square tail

Rocker might be on the money but the Ron , PSH and DC all weren't that much different.

I don't like boards with too much junk in the trunk so my tails are pretty thin , I reckon it's coming down to plug placement from the tail , push it foreword a couple of inches to make it toom stone more to hold it deck up , pull the plug point back and it rolls.....? your Chris Garrets have been glassed by Dale so the plug points would be he same as my DC , so the swallow tail adds some weight to the quandary.

After this mornings effort - definately "on top of me"

In the old old days we had a hole in the fin and attatched legrope to that.
before that we used NUTHIN.
so stop your whingin at least its upside down and not heading towards the
beach on its own. lol.

I've had a few boards now and they always land the wrong way up, except for the time the tail of the board landed on my head and the little side fin scalped me and I needed 9 stitches.

Hey Piros

It seems to me flat rockered boards tend to stay deck up (PSH10' & 9'2) and boards with more rocker (Laguna Bay, JL Mano & Naish 8'10) seem to go deck down and teabagging and I thought rocker was the issue. I haven't looked at leash plug position closely, but I still think rocker may be a factor.

Of couse if a hell set is coming then no question the board will be bum up

Bill

piros you rule. i thought i had to much time on my side but you eat me. as i try to sleep at night i think of some crazy stuff but mate you just take it to another level. and if your board is upside down it is its very own survival stance......i think before i sleep