transitional V-bottom stubby by Hansen

Myke doyle model
The Derringer
Nat Young at the end of 1967:
“…We started off in the power school of surfing with rounds, which was developed by McTavish, and then I found out later on that V bottoms could be more sensitive so we worked on them, and the board I took back for the sixty-six, sixty-seven Makaha Surfing Championship had a V in it, and that was over a year and a half ago.”
Farrelly Midget,a Surf International Interview on the progress and development of the modern surfboard:
“The problem has always been if you make a shorter board how do you get it to do everything a long
board does.
I think most of the good surfers now realize it’s not one dimension of a surfboard that guarantees
that it works.
As we get a little bit more sophisticated with design we are looking towards displacement volume to
give us a true measurement of a surfboard.
While we have gone down in length we have come up in a few other things.
The design is so radical that we do need a basic thickness of at least three inches.
The introduction of the V bottom means more defined planing areas, more positive areas on the
bottom of the board.
Rail shape has changed from a pointed, critical, radical rail to a softer, rounder, more oval rail.
The general rocker of a surfboard has been altered.
The nose is kicked radically while the tail flows away in a soft line.
So you have got the V, the more defined planing areas, nose rocker, and the change in rail shape, but
I think most significant and obvious change is in outline.
We have almost got a very basic old fashioned outline: big, wide, square tail, parallel rails and a blunt
nose.
You wouldn’t say that the boards of today are beautiful at all.”
All text from http://www.surfresearch.com.au.