I think that board will be fast in slow conditions - there's lots of surface area. But if it were me (which it isn't) I'd move the fins forward a little, otherwise you're never going to get any leverage on them. 3" forward of the tail block works for the Simms because they have that square tail block that enables their riders to get their rear foot all the way back between their keels.
Just my opinion. If you try it the way you've got it I'll be interested to get your feedback on the result.
Aloha Huck,
Do you ask, because you doubt me? Kivlin was over six feet tall. You can get a measurement of his left leg, and then ''assume'' a true length, based on Kivlin's height. It's then a simple matter to measure the length of the board, and scale it up. A bit inexact, but closer than a wild ass guess.
No, I didn't ask because I doubt you - on the contrary, I'm impressed that you so readily grasp a concept that few here seem to have figured out: using known dimensions in a photo to scale the unknown dimensions.
Long ago I was asking about some dimension or other, and you gave me the sage advice to pay more attention to the curves than the numbers. That little bit of advice set me free from slavish adherence to numbers I was dependent on others for, and allowed me the confidence to build anything I could visualize.
But along with the visualization of curves, I used my illustration and architectural background to do just what you did: analyze photos for solving unknown dimensions using scaling by known dimensions. Knowing a fin base can give you pretty accurate info about its placement in a photo.
You can figure rockers pretty close by knowing a board's thickness, you just figured length by knowing the surfer"'s height.
I have kinda touched on this concept when talking to others here seeking specific numbers, only to be summarily dismissed out of hand as providing useless information.
I had been contemplating starting a thread, trying to explain the concept, when your comment showed up, and I was like wow, he totally grasps the concept, and uses it like second nature. How many people would look at that photo and figure that out?
I just feel like there's much usable information here with real world application that gets overlooked by guys saying can you email me a file, or mail me a template, or give me exact numbers, and when you try to open their eyes they just blow you off cuz it's not the answer they were looking for.
I was really stoked to come across your simple but profound observation!
You humble me with praise. It is just my intuitive solution, to find out what I want to know, or suspect. I also hear you about the ''send me a file'', or give me the numbers crowd.
There's an app for that. Unfortunately these apps are for estimating surface area from a photo rather than length. If you figure out how to do length please let me know.
Example app: image meter
There is also an app with architectural application, i.e. using ceiling height you can estimate room dimensions. A quick search reveals there are a few apps available for scaling measurements off photos.
My intent however is encouraging people to use the computer between their ears, and quit relying so much on pre packaged apps, files, and the like,
What Bill described as an intuitive method of getting ballpark data from a photo is really an analytical approach available to anyone with a brain, eyes, determination, and an inquisitive, analytical mindset.
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