The board is only 2 and a quarter inches thick and 19 feet long, so is going to be ultra flexible. Previous boards witha similar length to thickness ratio were the 14'9" Makaha at 1.75 inches thick and a 1.75 inch thick 13'9" Dragon board.. . . .thin with round rails which we've been doing since 1995 and which have now become trendy thanks to Rob Machado.
Hello Roy,
ReplyDeleteEverything about this board has seemed quite amazing to me from day one, but reading now that it will be 2.25" thin is incredible--that is one slender "beam"!!!
If I'm not mistaken, you had previously mentioned it was going to be 2.5" thick so, at some point, you must have decided to lower its volume and increase its flexibility, pushing it structurally even further. I take it you'll be laminating some fiberglass cloth under the 8mm thick skins? Even so, my nose knows that's a mean, lean, tight, efficient structure.
I can't wait to see this beauty display its full gliding splendor on the energy of its namesake...
Olo of the Sun!
Regards,
Pablo
PS.: Is it the longest one you've built?
Hi Pablo,
ReplyDeleteThankyou for your encouragement !
Yes this is the longest board we've built so far by two feet. After analysing the thickness to length ratio of previous Olo boards we have made I decided to go for a ratio of around 1/100 in order to get that longbow twang.
The cloth is nylon which we can use as there's no need to sand it because it's inside the board. Glass would do the job too.
Volume wise the board will have around 153 litres, which should be sufficient.
It's a careful balance between length, thickness, width, mass, flex, volume and buoyancy, alchemy of the wave glider. . .
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hi,
ReplyDeleteThis is very beautiful and longest board , and it's a built to take the ratio of length,thickness & width....
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