WARP Drive BLEF foil fins ready to go

Discussion in 'Global Surf Talk' started by Roy Stuart, Dec 13, 2013.

  1. Cuck Taylor

    Cuck Taylor Well-Known Member

    853
    Jul 6, 2013
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    I've been practicing making fins just so when I want a cool fin I can hopefully pull it off decently. It's damn hard to make a good fin. Honestly a well made fin is with every penny. This is my first take at making a blef fin. It's gonna get sanded down to nothing but it's my testimony to how complex making that shape is
     
  2. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    from now on, I'll just respond to you with #1. which keeps me from writing,

    Yacky DooDoo went to town
    Looking for some man goo.
    Told him put it in his mouth,
    Or put it where he poo poos.
     

  3. yankee

    yankee Well-Known Member

    Sep 26, 2008
    Wrong thread, macaroni: research my HOTY thread & deposit all your airplane glue-driven ventings there.
    And remember, sparky: Vote for me & I'll set you free.
     
  4. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    It's the right one. you've just put so much of your #1 and 2's all over, you don't know where you are.


    And a Cheech #1 to Yacky DooDoo.
     
  5. ClemsonSurf

    ClemsonSurf Well-Known Member

    Dec 10, 2007
    CT, check these out. http://wavegrinder.com/ They look very similar to what you have going on here.
     
  6. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    that's similar to Laird's winged keel, cept his is 6'. He was supposed to be on TWC's "freaks of Nature" but there was weather to report instead.

    there was a show on fuel tv about Laird getting a bunch of top shelf surfers on a sail boat full of his toys and cruising Indo. The only other surfer to ride the winged keel was Machado.
     
    Last edited: Dec 24, 2013
  7. yankee

    yankee Well-Known Member

    Sep 26, 2008
    What happened to your fixation with male moisture, macaroni? Wait. Don't answer that.
    Keepin' it real 'cause you be the VB hvac sheetmetal ace pipe cleaner for your very own clown posse, macaroni.
     
  8. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  9. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
  10. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    they look real purdy and not so sharp at that angle.
     
  11. Cuck Taylor

    Cuck Taylor Well-Known Member

    853
    Jul 6, 2013
    Laird has a sailboat loaded with toys ? That sounds fun
     
  12. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    Looked like LOTS o fun.
     
  13. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
    The leading edge certainly isn't sharp, every cross section is this shape:

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  14. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    I'd like to see a shot looking directly at the serrated edge. My minds eye is seeing channels horizontally from the depressed edge. preferably from both ends.
     
  15. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013

    Here's a leading edge view of the ABS prototype. As you say there are horizontal channels, these diminish as they move back from the leading edge and are almost imperceptible in the trailing edge area.

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  16. yankee

    yankee Well-Known Member

    Sep 26, 2008
    Macaroni you continue to flat-spin with your newfound adoration of the hatemeisters chucka-boo-boo & gnome.
    Are you sucking on the left one or the right one, sparky?

    Ahhhhhh, disregard that, macaroni. The only real question is whether you three clowns use cold water wax or tropical when stroking one another.

    Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
     
  17. chicharronne

    chicharronne Well-Known Member

    Jun 22, 2006
    I loves channels. Mike Doyle did a board for me with, what he calls, a hull bottom. kind of an inverted rounded V under the middle fin. It was a 7'2" but cut like a short board. It made a weird low pitched hum when turning. like blowing over as pop bottle. He's now making 9' and over boards, putting a foot long rounded groove in the rails near the tail.
     
  18. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
  19. Cuck Taylor

    Cuck Taylor Well-Known Member

    853
    Jul 6, 2013
    Roy expect to see a transaction with my name in the very near future.

    If I were to cut off my patu fin on my makaha and put a box in, would the 9 inch blef spitfire have the muscle for it? Thanks.

    Those look killer !!
     
  20. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
    Cheers Charles, yes the fin will handle it, if you can handle cutting the wooden fin off lol.

    I'm doing some drawing today, apologies for the delay.