Old school shortie single fin question

Attachments don't work , but outside of that, and more importantly, what kind of fin boxes are you working with? Some of those early 70's boards had Guidance fin system boxes, which were not only temperamental and fell out easily, hence maybe why they don't have fins, but a WILD pain in the ass to find as well as Another WILD pain in the a$$ financially if you do.
Find out cause before you go doing a whole refurb with the intention of Surfing these boards? You might want to rout out those boxes for something easier.
I had a SICK 7'2 Bing mini Lightweight that just SAT because of this same thing before I up and sold it at a Loss. Get them pics up and working?

 

Fin choices- please talk to Roy. He knows about fins. He is like the fin guy. He makes them out of lambs wool- they are stong, warm and light. But he only posts in his threads, so you will have to find a thread he started and ask him. He is a nice guy and probably has a fin to sell you.

If it was up to me- I say a cutaway fin would be best but it will be squirrelly

 

I have a futures performance 6' on my 6'6 Hobie Flying Glove and it works great. I love single fins, A. I feel like only a small fraction of us are good enough to be limited by the decreased mobility and B. every time I switch back to a thruster (or better yet a quad), it feels like a rocket.

http://www.amazon.com/Future-Fins-P...16716391&sr=8-3&keywords=future+longboard+fin

 

first off, LMFAO at the guys saying **** like "there's a reason everyone switched to thrusters" as if the OP doesn't understand that & that it's even a valid reason for not experimenting & trying something new.

that said, i'd recommend starting w/ something more upright that'll be similar to what was prob. in those boards back when they were new.
like this:


or this:


the rusty single fin from rainbow fin co. is a good bet as well:

 

i love single fins and have always wanted a retro. if it was me i might go with the t-ames 7,0 he posted above me.

 

IMO he doesn't know much about fins. if he did he would be surfing the opposite of a cruise ship.
talk is cheap. true innovation less so.

 

thats fine.
but it should be said: one of the reasons the new school is just that.....is cause.....
they have beaten/robbed/killed/buried/spat-upon grave of the .....old school.

 

without knowing you but assuming you're medium accomplished on a shortboard....i bet you could ride
one of them just fine..

 

That Jacobs will work, but it won't be easy, and it won't start to feel right until it's at least head high.

I like the green fin in the middle, above. You're not looking at tight turns on that board, so some rake is good for drive and flow. It's also go less overall area and less tip, so that will loosen it up a bit, too.

 

Old school single fins are fun as hell. If you find a wave that lines up like a point then they are super awesome. I would go with a 6-7 inch on those.

 

Do you have a picture of the G&S? You've probably seen it, but here's a link with a picture of the fin it came with:

http://usvsa.com/auction/APViewItem.asp?ID=290

crazy stuff

 

Oh yeah, and this guy's right, I'll give you $50 for the board to save you the trouble

 

WOW, not too many G & S water skates seemed to have survived, congrats, weird shape for that time period due extra volume with and hard down rails. Does yours have the shallow sunken deck if my memory isn't totally shot? G & S had a demo/loaner program with shops to promote the new design but even that failed for them in just few years. I demo'd a "Skate" a few times when it was small in OC, it caught waves really well is about all I remember of it now.

 

Apparently it's a Tom Morey design? There was a great Paul Gross article about Tom Morey in The Surfers' Journal a few years ago, if I remember correctly its basic premise was that Morey thought the shortboard ruined surfing for the average surfer, and that most of his designs for the past 45 or so years have been intended to make surfing more fun again. I bet it works great on the East Coast.

 

go with a George Greenough 4a, say 7.5 to 8 inches long. Classic fin shape that some guys on here recommended to me when I asked a variant of your question. I went with both a regular and the volan. Have to say if you have the $ go with the volan version. Sweet fin and fun to ride on my sb single fin.

http://www.trueames.com/collections/single-fins/products/greenough-4-a-surf-fin