New material for surfboard bottom

[sickpig]

Read this article and immediately thought how that could/would work on the bottom of surfboard or snowboard - potential endless possibilities - love to hear the forums thoughts?

This is the link to the article
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-30915266

[Bobby Dazzler]

that would make a faster board, right? i spend enough of my time as it is having to do cutbacks just to make sure i don't outrun the wave. this would just make it worse.

[sickpig]

Would it benefit big wave surfing or tow-in? if there's increased speed, due to less resistance then could you reduce volume? would this also make make boards more manoeuvrable generally, also requiring less paddle power?

[Bobby Dazzler]

good point. anything that encourages tow-in surfing and also allows piss-weak paddlers to catch more waves has to be good for surfing.

[chrisb]

The Yanks will probably be coating their next Americas Cup entrant with it too.

[ctd]

The Chinese might use it on their swimmers

[The Mighty Sunbird]

and on their costumes

[swvic]

Disappointed with the angle of the droppings. Vertical onto horizontal I'd like to see

Directional stability for surfboards, yachts, etc. might be a difficult proposition. Fins can only do so much. With such a hydrophobic surface, the fin (or fin cluster) might amount to the pivot point with everything else being out of any real control. Of course I don't really have any fcuken idea. Thoughts of a physicist would be good. daryl?