Finless Experiment

I've been thinking about finless surfboards since seeing Derek Hynd at Noosa in February this year. Since then I have acquired an awesome Alaia from Thomas Bexon which is epic, but is hard to paddle. Recently I saw some footage of Derek riding his finless in solid surf in South Africa, which was enough inspiration to get me into action. Below is my first attempt at the finless concept. The board is 5'8 x 19 x 2 with extremely hard rails, and a 8mm concave nose to tail, with a slightly concaved chine in from the rails. The chine idea comes from Ross Head a well respected longboard shaper on the coast, we discussed how the chine releases pressure from the rail when used in the nose area on longboards for nose riding, so hopefully this will work for the finless design as well.

Shaped

Taped ready for cut laps

Finished

Ready to surf!

DW