</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by *nstink:
<strong>Christ that thing is ugly...I love it! I was wondering why I couldn't see a stringer. I didn't figure someone got the thing pigmented a suncured brown. That skeg is friggin huge, must be at least a 10".
What was the idea behind the stringerless boards, more flex? Less weight? Experiment?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">There's a guy around here who shapes stringerless boards, among other things. Saw one a couple months ago. I understand he's a big-buck lawyer now and only shapes a few for people he knows. But they're modern shapes, though of course they're different from a contest tri-fin. I asked about it, and was told that flex is the reason to do it on a modern board.
<strong>Christ that thing is ugly...I love it! I was wondering why I couldn't see a stringer. I didn't figure someone got the thing pigmented a suncured brown. That skeg is friggin huge, must be at least a 10".
What was the idea behind the stringerless boards, more flex? Less weight? Experiment?</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">There's a guy around here who shapes stringerless boards, among other things. Saw one a couple months ago. I understand he's a big-buck lawyer now and only shapes a few for people he knows. But they're modern shapes, though of course they're different from a contest tri-fin. I asked about it, and was told that flex is the reason to do it on a modern board.