How do you guys think about total fin area when it’s twin plus trailer? I feel like for thrusters (or quads) everyone goes by small, medium, large based on your weight and that pretty much works.
But the variation on twins is pretty big. That panda set, despite the small trailer is more fin than the t1. And the chippa Wilson set is way more fin than the panda set? Do you base the size of the side fins off your weight, and then adjust the trailer size on preferred feel on the sliding scale of twin to thruster?
That's a good question, and it would be cool to have a scale from thruster to twin feel, or vice versa. I pretty much only ride twins now, but have tried a few different twinny plus trailer sets. I just kinda figured that if there were five boxes, like my super buzz and pug, that I'd need a substantial amount of fin area to match that of a quad or thruster. I was hoping to get the user friendly free speed of the twin, along with some control/pivot with trailer, and on that count that Chippa set delivered for me. On my pug, it just seemed natural, especially with that boards outline, the superbuzz surprised me though. I thought maybe there was to much going in the end of the tail (width, concaves, rocker, etc) to make a twin plus trailer work on that model. So for me that set was great in boards, that were designed as thrusters or quads, but I didn't really like them as a pure twin, in a 2win I like a more raked out fin like Tyler Warren, or the Alkali Erickson's. Oddly enough I didn't like the Tyler Warren set with the trailer in my pug or superbuzz, maybe it was the rake?