Fixed singles are really great! Thrusters don't work 'better' than fixed singles! Your recording got stuck again. Although those measurements are all good, there are so many variations on the single fin theme which can be ridden in hollow waves that it is really silly to say that such and such a measurement is too big or small. Really wide tailed singles can be fun in hollow waves. Your measurements also don't take the size of the rider into account. This 'Best' measurement stuff is all BS.
First, if you had seen the original post to which I replied, you would have seen JLW's weight (which is actually kinda close to my weight). It is out of context without that, but that is not my fault.
Second, there are people that ride wide-tailed fixed singlefin boards in hollow waves, but only a few shapers making the boards well, and I wouldn't recommend it to a backyard shaper.
Third, working "better" is subjective. Thrusters do generate speed off the bottom turn better than singles, and do hold a bottom turn better, and do allow higher performance (ie: shorter radius turns) with a wider tail (and thus a shorter effective hull length). If you say a fixed single can generate speed, then you have NEVER generated speed on a thruster, plain and simple. It is an enormous difference.
Fourth, I think, based on the previous time JLW asked for dimensions, he is interested in what a fixed single can do. It's really a little tiresome when you query me about the same points in a second thread that you already queried me about before.
Fifth, we had overhead hollow waves last week, and I got slotted like I never have before on a fixed single or a thruster - riding my rotating single. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
