Surfing Waves

Hi all, does anyone have a ...Lost Stretch RV? I'm in India, and it's hard to get boards here, so I'm considering having a local shaper try a Lost Stretch RV 6’0" x 21.5" x 2.66" Vol: 37.8L. I can't find more details about the DIMs, and some more measurements would be really helpful.

Does anyone have a Stretch RV they could measure for me? I would be very grateful! We could use:

- Width at 12” from nose
- Width at 12” from tail
- Foil thoughts on how much taper there is from stringer to rail at the thickest point on the board
- Foil thoughts on how much taper there is from center to nose and center to tail on the rail line
- Your thoughts/description of bottom contours - it's a V, but how much stringer spine is there? how deep are the cuts? when does the V come in, how pronounced at the start of the forward fin? does it get more pronounced?

If you have a Stretch RV of any size, I'd love to hear of its DIMs. I could scale mine up or down. Thanks much everyone, Jeremy

Double

If it were me, I would talk to the local shaper about the kind of board I wanted, maybe show some general pics regarding the style, and then I would let him do his thing. if you don't and insist on him copying a model he's not familiar with with a handful of inexact dims from the chat room, it would be the same as walking into a restaurant kitchen with a list of ideas and half recipes and insist the chef follow what he was given and then expect a cohesive meal as the outcome.

Bad idea!

Read this, esp. w-chan's and DTC's comments:
viewtopic.php?t=25304

Big H wrote:If it were me, I would talk to the local shaper about the kind of board I wanted, maybe show some general pics regarding the style, and then I would let him do his thing. if you don't and insist on him copying a model he's not familiar with with a handful of inexact dims from the chat room, it would be the same as walking into a restaurant kitchen with a list of ideas and half recipes and insist the chef follow what he was given and then expect a cohesive meal as the outcome.

Bad idea

I hear ya', I have been toying with the same issues. Rock and hard place over here. He's done V's with bump wings, I just wanted to see if I could figure out as best I could what the stretch RV actually is so I could see if what he's able to come up with is in the same ballpark. It will be his shape in the end regardless. I'm still considering trying to get a ...Lost shaped board after all, I'm really smitten by this board. It'll be a shot in the dark any way I cut it here. I like to support local, but let's see.

Big H wrote:Read this, esp. w-chan's and DTC's comments:
viewtopic.php?t=25304

nice