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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Warp Drive SC series fins now available in 6 different sizes, we'll have three different foil shapes available soon too: RAE102 NACA 16-012 & E168 6.5" 7.0" 7.5" 8.0" 8.5" 9.0" Prices from NZ$99 http://matrixsurfboards.blogspot.co.nz/2013/12/warp-drive-surfboard-fin-in-royal-blue.html
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 !!
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.