HOW TO MAKE THE PERFECT BOARD: July 23th 2010

When building a board there are many elements to considered while choosing a shape. Please read carefully as we help guide you toward a ride that will suit your style.

Outline
This refers to the overall shape of a board looking top down.
1-A rounder outline will carve smoother and cut through chop better
2-A more parallel outline loads up more uniformally giving you a little extra pop. ideal in flatter waters or with wake boots
3-Middle of the road is a blend of the two styles. Excellent for the wake style riders out there.

Rocker
Is the amount of bend in a board looking side on.

1- Flatter boards are faster and plane earlier good for ripping and lighter wind days

2-Mid rocker gives a good all around performance

3-Too much rocker this is known as our clown face board
not the fasted stick on the water but great for powered riding and buttery landings. massive pop!

Concave
A very valuable feature on all duuk boards. It stiffens the board between your feet leaving more flex in the tip and tail where you need it. As well as providiing a little extra lift while planing.

1-Slight used on our light wind boards. Used in junction with flatter rocker to obtain a sweet skim.

2-standard concave will give you an awsome rail to rail grab helping you hold and edge in all conditions

3-deep concave wild amounts of grip and more surfy feeling carves.

Tip and tail
This is an area that is commonly missunderstood. The shape has a conderable effect on the boards performance.

1-The square cut is most common it has good upwind performance and pop.

2-Rounded really loosens up the board making it pretty fun.

3-custom channeling will give a more precise pop directing the water to a managable snap.

The length and width
Width actually plays more of a role than length. As the width will alter the surface area of a board more dramatically. The surface area should some what match the conditions you are riding. For example a bigger board for lighter wind and smallar for high wind.

Length helps with upwind performance giving more of a projected rudder resulting in less leg input. But go to big a it starts to feel big when performing tricks.

Some average sizes are: 38cm x 130cm
41cm x 136cm
45cm X 142cm

In conclusion
All these variables may seem a little overwhelming when deciding, so just give us a shout and we`ll make sure you get what you came for.

Windspeed table for Conversion of Knots, Beaufort, m/s and km/h. (July 24th 2010)

Knots	Bft.	m/s	km/h	Label	Effect on sea
1	0	0 – 0.2	1	Calm	Sea like a mirror
1-3	1	0.3-1.5	1-5	Light Air	Ripples with the appearance of scales are formed, but without foam crests
4-6	2	1.6-3.3	6-11	Light Breeze	Small wavelets, still short, but more pronounced. Crests have a glassy appearance and do not break
7-10	3	3.4-5.4	12-19	Gentle Breeze	Large wavelets. Crests begin to break. Foam of glassy appearance. Perhaps scattered white horses
11-15	4	5.5-7.9	20-28	Moderate Breeze	Small waves, becoming larger; fairly frequent white horses
16-21	5	8.0-10.7	29-38	Fresh Breeze	Moderate waves, taking a more pronounced long form; many white horses are formed. Chance of some spray
22-27	6	10.8-13.8	39-49	strong Breeze	Large waves begin to form; the white foam crests are more extensive everywhere. Probably some spray
28-33	7	13.9-17.1	50-61	Near Gale	Sea heaps up and white foam from breaking waves begins to be blown in streaks along the direction of the wind
34-40	8	17.2-20.7	62-74	Gale	Moderately high waves of greater length; edges of crests begin to break into spindrift. The foam is blown in well-marked streaks along the direction of the wind
41-47	9	20.8-24.4	75-88	Severe Gale	High waves. Dense streaks of foam along the direction of the wind. Crests of waves begin to topple, tumble and roll over. Spray may affect visibility
48-55	10	24.5-28.4	89-102	Storm	Very high waves with long over-hanging crests. The resulting foam, in great patches, is blown in dense white streaks along the direction of the wind. On the whole the surface of the sea takes on a white appearance. The ‘tumbling’ of the sea becomes heavy and shock-like. Visibility affected
56-63	11	28.5-32.6	103-117	Violent Storm	Exceptionally high waves (small and medium-size ships might disappear behind the waves). The sea is completely covered with long white patches of foam flying along the direction of the wind. Everywhere the edges of the wave crests are blown into froth. Visibility affected
64-71	12	32.7-36.9	118-133	Hurricane	The air is filled with foam and spray. Sea completely white with driving spray; visibility very seriously affected