Flextails

The basic principal of the flextails that we produce here at Bushrat has been adapted from a kneeboard design that first saw light in Maroubra Sydney in about 1969.
The men behind that board were/are Peter Berry and Neil Cameron.
After viewing video footage of this board clearly going twice as fast as the other boards in the line-up, and riding one behind a boat, I was sold on the idea of reverse curve.
In manufacture of these boards the tail is set with a curve down in the last seven inches and glassed in a carbon fibre composite. This creates a flexible negative rocker and is the main factor that sets them aside from any other flextail that you may have seen before.

In use, when the board is loaded into a turn, the tail flexes back into a standard rocker; then as you come out of the turn it flexes back into its pre loaded position ready for the next turn. What this does to the board is it enhances the drive, enabling you to go much faster and draw longer, cleaner lines with more power.
The tail works in the same way as George Greenough’s finger fin does, storing energy and releasing it as drive.

We glass these boards in an epoxy vinyl ester resin, not for looks, but for its excellent flex properties and its very high tensile strength.
This resin also works better with the carbon fibre used in the tail and in the rail lap.
The boards definitely work best in good waves, and they want to go fast.

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