Gull Wing BLEF fin

BUT if it was me who got your precious, this thread would have been:

Dear Roy,
You are the best. Thanks for the free schitt. You numbah 1! Everyone else numbah 10.
Your biggest fan,
Cheech

 

Awww wittle buddy, you are a mega super gaping asshole and make all sorts of crappy stuff, not just fins. Come on don't sell yourself short Gnomeo.

 

I bet you have lots of fan buoys who get off on it when you're strict with them, gnome.
Baaaaaaaaaa Baaaaaaaaaaaa .....

 

http://weknowmemes.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/good-good-let-the-butthurt-flow-through-you.jpg

 

Don't thank me Roy. Allow me to thank you. I'm ready to change my son's name from Cheech Jr. to Royarronne.

 

In other words, gnome, you fukked up the production despite having a solid design. It's ok, we get it. You're trying to eliminate the bad pub for your bogusino designs that would emanate from a raft of recalls of your bread slicer / fin.

You may be stoked about 'it' (what the hell you're referring to is beyond me) but you're trying to bail on the follow up work that's needed for your product.

Every fin of every type that I've purchased fits into its designated place on the board like a hand to glove.

Maybe stick to fantasy golf, orange crushy.

 

So you can just use your dik to measure that. Pretty handy I guess.

 

So if I understand you correctly, only you (or perhaps a few select others) are aware of this issue, and you have come up with a perfected formula to solve said problem? A problem that no one else in the fin industry has? My evidence for this is that every fin I have ever used, regardless of manufacturer, has fit in its designated fin box as advertised, without any modification. The fact that you have what by all accounts appears to be a manufacturing defect/issue based on your production methods, and you spin it in such a way to imply the entire surf fin industry is the one whom are mistaken, and not you? Sweet tapdancing Jesus, that's no small amount of hubris Roy.

 

A fin/wax comb combo?!?!?

 

You summed it up perfect man.

 

BLEF fin trial summary

Roy posted a picture of his Gull Wing BLEF. People laughed. He retorted with sheep related humour. I offered to try it out. I did not ask for a free fin. I offered to test it out, review it, and pass it on to another Swellie. As soon as I received the 5 fins generously provided by Roy, I sent 4 of them to Clemsonsurf, who was headed to PR. I kept the Gull Wing, and waited for a chance to try it out.

In 40 plus years of surfing I have never ever had a center fin not fit. So I took my longboard down to the beach last Saturday. I had an hour and a half to drive to the beach, check it out, and get back for family obligations. I took a screwdriver with me to change out fins. When I got to the beach it was knee to thigh high and crumbly, and I went out with my board with the True Ames Squirrel 8" fin to do a control test, paying close attention to how it behaved and when it bogged and when it accelerated in the weak mush. After about 30 minutes, I went in to change fins. The Gull Wing has an Allen head, no worries, I had my FCS fin key which fit. The fin would not fit the box. I thought it was sand. I washed it out. Still no bueno. So I cut my session short, went home a bit frustrated. Then I made the mistake of posting on the forum it didn't fit, instead of PMing Roy to find out why. And used some sheep humour.

Before I got a response from Roy, everyone jumped him, he got defensive, lashed out on me. I got pissed and called him names. Then I went to sleep, woke up more chill, tried to sand/file it down. It finally fit. I wrote a public apology for my stubbornness, and suggested to Roy to let people know how to make the fin fit in the future. People flamed Roy. Roy posted schematic reasons why. Roy flamed me as a mooch and an idiot, in defense of him getting called out for being a hot head. Clemsonsurf posted the sidebites worked nice. Roy got flamed some more. Cheech offered him his firstborn. It is now Victory at Sea, 40 knots, so I no try fin out now. Hopefully I have summed this tread up for those who have lost count on the score.

 

Thanks surfdog!!!!

 

Thats what I expect out of a fin I spend good money on. I have never needed to do any adjustments, fits every time.

 

Most honest and accurate review I've ever read. The Swellers can read and think: are you buying a bleff (or any Roy fin) based on this honest review?