Shaper's Torque. Red Ceglow with a CAD shaping machine at home. Kneeboarding the personal way.

Red has always had some left-field, 'mad scientist' projects. He backs it up with exciting products and outcomes. Maybe that's why his university students called him Doc Red!
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Doc Red Kneeboards. 'Chief scraper and Machine maintainer'
www.stumpsurf....
Red was a Durban local in the 1980s and was one of the dominant competitors in the Kneeboarding boom in South Africa during that time. A contemporary of Gigs Celliers, Sean Noone, Stephen Cruickshank, Lawrence Atkinson, etc.
Red then moved to Australian where he was an university lecturer.
He's excelled in contests over the decades, at club, national and world title level. His 8.5 score for one wave in difficult windy 6' waves at Aramoana during the early rounds of the 2020 World Champs proved to me how strong and relevant his surfing still is.
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What are trying to achieve with your shapes?
Many years ago I spent a lot of time watching surfing and kneeboarding in slow motion. The one thing that stood out to me was how most boards, even when ridden by really great surfers, would "fight" the direction that the surfer was trying to go. I also noticed that the boards on rail would often weave up and down, which I interpreted as a design issue, rather than a surfer one. This is particularly obvious in bottom turns. You'll see this often as a two part bottom turn, or a delayed reaction to surfer effort.
I was working at the time on placement of three key variables: rocker low point, outline wide point, and profile thickest point. I was also looking at how foiling in fin tips acted when the board was on rail, and studying aerofoil dynamics.
I grew to believe that placement of wide point forward of the rocker low point was one of the design choices that was trading off as a board that had inherent direction that needed to be counteracted.
Normally the rocker low point coincides with the thickest part of the profile. Now, you can see how having the widest part of the outline, say two inches ahead of centre or rocker low point (thickest part of the profile) will create a situation where the interaction of the board with the wave is like the dinosaurs in the Monty Python, Anne Elk sketch:, "Thin at one end, thick in the middle, and thin at the other end". Now that's not an aerodynamically functional model.
I coincided rocker low point and widest point, as opposed to the inch or two difference in most kneeboards around. But the key difference has been because I've adjusted the thickness so that the rail acts like a foil and pulls the board through the water. I've done this by pulling the thickest part of the rail forward. Now any shaper will tell you how difficult it is to make the rails thicker at a different place to where the profile (thickness at centre) is.
Andrew Stump, 'The Professor'
(Stumpsurf.com) helped me enormously in figuring out how to achieve the rail foiling I wanted without having lumps and bumps in the design, but it took a few 'goes'.
The result I think has been a design that goes bottom-to-top seamlessly. There's no transition from one to the other. No need to correct wobbles though the bottom turn to aim high again. This model rounded pin surfs 2' to 8', slop or barrels, but some of that has to do with the rocker, outline and rail profile; other areas where I've been trying to approach thinking a little differently. Maybe more about that some other time.
Thanks to Troy Wells for the channel graphics. ...

[@ash66clarke]

True craftsman would love ride one of those boards

[@MC_Mookie]

Love your work 🤙🇦🇺

[@Jameswoodgo]

Old red is the man

[@kneeboardtorque5971]

His always had thought provoking, interesting, controversial and sometimes mad as a hatter ideas. Got to love him.