You "Lift" - Plane on the wide surface of the base of the fin , jus like the surface of the board , you control that "Lift" - planing by reducing area above or behind what you are planing on
Mind Blowing Stuffs right there ;-)
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That "Lift" you feel from your Fins
- Thread starter griffinsurfboard
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Mind Blowing Stuffs right there ;-)
A hell of a lot more coherent than you.
You're a shaper; he's a politician.
It'd have to be Physix vs Vaclav Havel for it to even be close.
Foil planing surfaces, not helmets.
Your method is to reduce the physical amount of surface area "above or behind what you are planing on" correct?
What about maintaining some surface area above or behind what you are planing on and through flex allow the amount of lift to alter? Think aircraft wing's flaps.
Then with that flex turn that drag to control the lift back into drive as the angle of attack alters.
Sorry, but that is the JR. college course.
When doing a floater do you want the surface your planing to fart the energy off thats creating this ?
Controlled Lift - Planing thru everything is that "Magic" Board feel all desire . Hovering across the wave at all times hollow or not .
Not at all.
Your objectivity is impaired because you are a party to the dispute, I assure you others got a lot out of it.
Your objectivity is impaired because you are a party to the dispute, I assure you others got a lot out of it.
My little experiment on an asym set, nothing to lose.
Well the S-wing fins in my 7' fish absolutely deliver what you say in your second sentence so there's more ways to deliver performance from a fin template than just yours.
I believe your fin templates are excellent for the record.
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At the end of Backyards there is a section that pitches out intensely before entering the Bone yard
You can fly into it and ride on top of the lip until you tweek your board and fins to be thrown into flat several feet shore ward
The reduced fin tip area sets easily moving into the wider area increasing power for your next move - Great Fun !
That 4 " + long tip of you S wings would over plane and jump in a very unsettling manner unless you pointed them shoreward to get them to enter more gracefully , then get you crap together and move on - by that time you have been put on the live coral below ;-)
Part of sharing, an important part, is expressing your experience clearly. Not having your audience have to guess at what you are saying is demonstrating respect to your reader.
Respect begets respect.
Respect begets respect.
Many of us appreciate the effort. Hate that every thread seems to get derailed with name calling.
Not going to pretend I understood all that you posted, but willing to try to learn more about the mysteries of board/fin design. So many variables! This thread was one I’d never considered.
Lucky for me I won't be surfing there in the foreseeable future but throwing an anomalous example of an end section of one particular wave in Hawaii is a rather small sample size for determining use case.
Also worth noting that since you haven't ridden a board with S-wings over that same section (or any wave for that matter) you're theorising about what would happen. Are you familiar with the "scientific method"?
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This is experienced in most waves doing this with wider tips vs narrower tips re entering smoothly and ramping up as they set deeper into the water to their wider surface
4" wide tip is way beyond a wide tip , entering with a huge contact area then a surface way forward of that .
You could describe those as a fin with a trailer attached
4" wide tip is way beyond a wide tip , entering with a huge contact area then a surface way forward of that .
You could describe those as a fin with a trailer attached
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