Gull Wing BLEF fin

Discussion in 'Global Surf Talk' started by Roy Stuart, Oct 4, 2014.

  1. ClemsonSurf

    ClemsonSurf Well-Known Member

    Dec 10, 2007
    And, as advertised, they float.

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  2. ClemsonSurf

    ClemsonSurf Well-Known Member

    Dec 10, 2007
    Waist to stomach and falling. Isabella is looking better but that'll be about 45 minutes from us. It's DOH now.

    Deberia estar alla Ayer.

    (Pardon my Spanish, it's been a while.)
     

  3. yankee

    yankee Well-Known Member

    Sep 26, 2008
    Similar to the ride reports for the Steve board, clemmie....? Just askin'.
     
  4. ClemsonSurf

    ClemsonSurf Well-Known Member

    Dec 10, 2007
    Just got them so I can't say. The research is there though and there is plenty of use in wind turbines from a quick search. I'm going to beg and borrow fins so I can have a good test population
     
  5. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
    Polycarbonate.
     
  6. sisurfdogg

    sisurfdogg Well-Known Member

    Jun 17, 2013
    Too small and closed out this evening to test drive the GW BLEF. Tomorrow is an all day workfest, so maybe if conditions permit, I'll trial it over the weekend. Forecasts say it is to be clean and small, so good for a test. I'm going to try going straight without pumping or turning on three different center fins ( 9" standard, 8" Squirrell Cutaway, and the 9" GW BLEF) on the same size wave to feel each fins drag. Then do a 20 minute session with each, to gauge responsiveness and hold. Then move it up or down on the fin box to see if there is any major differnece in performance. Hopefully early next week repeat same test on bigger waves. I will weigh and float the fin in the meantime, but too buzzed for now. Stay tuned.
     
  7. yankee

    yankee Well-Known Member

    Sep 26, 2008
    To refresh your faulty memory: the Steve ride report that you pimped repeatedly as the South Cackalacky builder of a gnome board, and whose 'photos' you posted on SI Forum turned out to be a complete fiction. Ergo: no ride reports. Because the item never existed.

    Your cred is missing in action, troll stalker talker.
     
  8. yankee

    yankee Well-Known Member

    Sep 26, 2008
    You're ok, mang, and a solid swellie.
    Butt.....either we see video of this or it means that it's a long-winded joke asspect that just didn't happen. Sorry. But the gnome has zero cred on SI.
     
  9. ClemsonSurf

    ClemsonSurf Well-Known Member

    Dec 10, 2007
    You can keep your cred yank.
     
  10. yankee

    yankee Well-Known Member

    Sep 26, 2008
    The only question is will you be stringing this BS thread along even further than you did the 'steve' thread, chromium dish. Colorful pics & bs 'ride reports' get oh so boring already.
     
  11. EmassSpicoli

    EmassSpicoli Well-Known Member

    Apr 16, 2013
    Holy Sharc***!!! A Roy tread where Roy's not the centre of hate!!!

    FLY A BANNER FOR FIRSTS ON SI
     
  12. ClemsonSurf

    ClemsonSurf Well-Known Member

    Dec 10, 2007
    Can we get some entertainment for this man please!!!! WTF is happening here? This is the sitting HOTY and he is not entertained.
     
  13. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
    Either we see a verified video of your person or it means that you are just a long winded arse bandit who looks like Jabba the Hut.

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  14. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
    Roy is the centre of many good things, perhaps you mean 'target of hate"?
     
  15. EmassSpicoli

    EmassSpicoli Well-Known Member

    Apr 16, 2013
    Serious cannon fotter here.
     
  16. EmassSpicoli

    EmassSpicoli Well-Known Member

    Apr 16, 2013
    Centre bro. Centre.

    Let the SI poet laureate exert poetic license. Simply that you're stated as the centre of hate doesn't mean you're the source of it all.

    Keep whittling away the jagged edges of those freshly printed fins bro. Leave the rest to us Swellers.
     
  17. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
    If you can go straight you are doing better than me... I tried it and it can't be done, the temptation to adjust the trim is just too great!

    Seriously though when trimming on a wall the fin is experiencing an angle of attack just as it is when turning, but at a lower angle. This will give you a feeling for low aoa behaviour, but I bet that you a nubster that you do a turn or two.
     
  18. Roy Stuart

    Roy Stuart Well-Known Member

    Jan 27, 2013
    Pedantry is a hobby of mine...
     
  19. EmassSpicoli

    EmassSpicoli Well-Known Member

    Apr 16, 2013
    Many of us are lifelong learners as well. SI is a house of learned doctors.
     
  20. EmassSpicoli

    EmassSpicoli Well-Known Member

    Apr 16, 2013
    Roybuoy, sidogg: what's this going straight phenomenon you speak of? Elaborate please.