So i have an idea? do you want to help?

Yea man this is a great idea! you're lucky you either know how to shape or have money to drop haha. My suggestion is that you go finless.
here's my reason for that haha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECqlbimpaUI&feature=related

 

i always wondered what would happen if i had a board with a lot of nose rocker, and i took a small backward fin and put it under the nose. would that let me spin the board around with ease? like every time i put enough pressure in on the nose? this idea was inspired by me catching waves fins forward so i could do 360s on small days

 

I will be involved as long as I get the board... kidding.

 

Yea! here here Zippy! haha

 

maybe a shorter fatter board?

 

Hmm, I like the double sided fin idea. Maybe something that is completely symmetrical on the nose and the tail. Has the wide point right in the middle and both sides taper into a squash tail with the same rocker and bottom contours. Kind of like a skateboard for the water, something short and wide for messing around on small days doing pop shuvits and little 180s and stuff. More like a trick oriented board.

I have no idea if that would actually work but it sounds fun to me!

 

+ 1...ever do a fin first take of on a longboard? Once those fins catch the board whips right around. def. with smaller fins or some type of different foil on the nose end to make it so you wouldn't need super extreme rocker (not normally found on shorter wider boards anyway) but make the board for more than just doing 180s.

 

Someone developed retractable fins. They never really caught on, or maybe never really worked that well. I don't have a link handy. Can't think of the name right now, but Matt Biolos knows him or worked with him or something. I think he posted about it on is blog.
When the fins are facing the right way they are down just like with any other board, but if they get turned around they would rotate up into the board. Then you have fins on both ends of the board, but only one set would be down or 'activated' at a time.

 

OK...... I like to cut the tail down with a double wing usually and as with most Ive seen the tail is always , including my own, a swallow. Why not a double wing baby squash quad with 4 channels running with the fins on the bottom????? Most swallows have a V or double running out of them so if you channel the squash that would do nicely for water out the back. Thats covers the tail and the bottom concave pretty much so everyone else can figure out the rest

 

chunnel

/fiiiiiiiiler

 

i got a great idea...we could strap that beyondlimits girl to the the top of the deck, so when your paddling out you have something fun to play with...

 

if you are thinking of a double ender, i think round tail round nose, probably not symmetrical, but it could be.

 

If you guys like the idea of having a looser feel without losing all control you can move the fins closer to the center of the board, maybe a foot or two.

Someone else suggested double-ended fins. If you choose that route research into some wakeboard fin designs.

I've always wanted to shape a board that has sort of increasing tailward keel. But I always figured buoyancy/weighting and glassing would be an issue.

 

I say take a 10 ft blank and make a 4' 10 x 3 x 22. No tail rocker 2" nose rocker. 2 half moon fins with a tiny trailer fin placed slightly farther up then the 2 half moons. Performance rails, pin tail, longboard nose.

 

Best idea so far...

 

Although you called out the possiblity of anything really bizarre up front, I can't help but imagine the oddest frankenboard ever while reading these posts and I insist that it have a cup holder.

In all seriousness, the only thing I can think of that's incredibly out of the ordinary would be a SUP with a wavejet. I'm not sure that's surfing but it's different.

By the way, I gave you on honk while passing on Route 18 the other day. It was a supportive honk and not an angry one.
If that was indeed you... you looked perplexed

 

Andrew,
I say you should incorporate sidecut like a snowboard. Especially if you are going the twin tip route. It's been done before with pretty good results (look up Steve O'Hara from Pioneers in NH, not to mention the Meyerhoffer stuff) but its something I think needs much more exploring and could be really interesting on a mini-simmons type board.

See you soon,
Jamie