Tomo MPH

Waterlogged05

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May 14, 2005
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mph mach speed midlength

even though I joke about midlength I wanna get my dad a lost crowd killer or something to get him more enthused. He has a 9'6" robert august tank thing with dick length rail thickness
 

JDJ

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Damn that looks really fun. Mid length thruster Tomo sounds super fun. Really digging the design.
 
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spjones123

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I've owned multiple Tomos and thought they were all fun...but a "big wave paddle board" that is ALSO a "mid-length for small days"? Come on. There's acceptable levels of exaggeration in surf marketing (it paddles like a longboard)...then there's that. One board quiver!! 25ft Sunset to 2ft San O!
 

PRCD

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Based on planning hull theory, it features a long straight rail line with a torpedo nose profile for safety and lowing change of nosedive plus wider tail block for speed. This achieves several benefits. 1. It allows the design to be ridden shorter while maintaining adequate volume, rail line and paddle. 2. Projection and drive through the turns. lowering drag to outrun big sections where a low area pin tail may slow the board down.
But if the outline is too straight, the board won't turn when you set it on rail. In the limit, look at those other Hydrodynamica videos where they're riding boxier planing hulls: the turns suck. Do Tomos really have a "long straight rail line"? They look like they have a similar outline to other HPSBs to me but I'm certainly no shaper.

The gimmick with the Tomos appears to be the channels which increases the finishing costs. Firewire must have some process that brings that cost back down.

Full disclosure: I own two Tomos.
 

rowjimmytour

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I've owned multiple Tomos and thought they were all fun...but a "big wave paddle board" that is ALSO a "mid-length for small days"? Come on. There's acceptable levels of exaggeration in surf marketing (it paddles like a longboard)...then there's that. One board quiver!! 25ft Sunset to 2ft San O!
No wonder beachhouse in SB has Tomos OTR.......
 

ANIMA

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Crazy chit!
It makes sense that a wide tailed fish would outrun a pintail thruster or even a pintail quad.

If you're a big wave surfer you want speed right?