I ran across this article "The Enigma of Simmons" from The Surfer's Journal (1994 Vol.3 #1) that is a very interesting read. With some of the interesting discussions of "Planing Hulls" and "Parallel Profiles", etc., that are in other threads, this article provides interesting history of Bob Simmons contribution to surfboard development. Enjoy! http://hydrodynamica.com/press/1994/tjsvol3no1
Sorry about that. It's fixed now. Beware of the "backslashes" ("\") that the editor sometimes inserts. @hanna: Thanks for the other link.