Single Fins. Past, present, future. Show us what you got...

My uncle had a McCoy single Circa 1972-4 or something like that. It must have been around 6'8 to 7', leash loop hole cut into the fin, and I absolutely freaking loved riding it. Too bad it was underneath a house that got demolished after Hurricane Fran and no one was around to save it....

Short story:

When I was a grom my folks used to ground me from riding my shortboard if I got below a B in a class, was late for something and/or for one of the many, many times I did something to piss them off. This McCoy was my go-to board for the days I was grounded. I surfed it in anything from knee high wind slop, chunky and closed out hurricane swell and super long mushburgers in the various inlets I surf. It was lightning fast and actually turned pretty easy thanks to my uncle's home-grown/shade tree diy cut out fin. Oh man, the memories.

I've never seen another board like it, and I've been looking for a long, long time.

RIP Magic McCoy

 

i've got a couple that i'll snap pics of later today if i get the time. do bonzers count? they're kinda like a highly evolved single

in the meantime, care to expound a bit on that little black railed, stringless job, barry? that thing looks killer!

 

black deck that's gnarly! cool shape, though! love the use of max macdonald's e-wing concept on that first one!

 

Barry, I want them all

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/264241-shut-up-and-take-my-money

 

Barry, if you ever want to take a trip to the world's most exotic surf destination--Cape Fear area, NC--you've got a free place to stay, free food, free booze and a couple fishing trips thrown in just let me know.

All you have to do is bring at least one of each design. I understand the airlines and/or shipping may be pricey, so I'll be sympathetic if you have to leave a hand full of boards here... I'll try and make room for them...

 

I love that board! I love a black deck in the winter. Summer down here? Not as much, but I'd still rock that board.

 

Dang those boards are pretty. That yellow SF would look great in the corner next to my prized mexican velvet Elvis painting. I wouldn't feel right waxing and denting them all up. Do you do quick and dirty clear sanded finish? Something I can get to know and wouldn't feel bad about putting my stupid knee dents in? Or when my kids wack it on the beach access. Or drop a pyramid sinker on the bottom like a dagger. Or throw a beach chair on top of it in the van. Or push it with their knuckle to see if it will dent. Or nose dive in the shorebreak and break the tip off.

 

i keep hearing that singkle fins are great in the tube not that we get a ton of tubes on the east coast but more than ten times i have heard this. is this simply because the single fin finds the pocket of the wave more. with a thruster you have more freedom of movement and te single fin likes to hug the pocket. am i correct in saying this?i love a single fin longboard but love thrusters when the surf gets serious or for travel boards. thrusters hold tight on a nice drop and i would assume a single fin would spin out a lot easier-maybe i am wrong never surfed one with a shirtboard

 

use the rail, luke.

 

no doubt! it's killer.

 

Now all we need are some waves here along the Atlantic. GFS has a storm next Thursday, aka Halloween, that is closer to the coast (maybe some south wind fetch on the east side of it?) versus the Euro which has it further West. I want the surf, but if Halloween is cancelled 2 years in a row due to weather, well, I don't know, the kids around here may freak out The Dad in me says further west, the surfer in me says towards the coast. We'll see how it all plays out, but man we're overdue for a swell that has a set that makes you say Holy S#4t.

Anyway, the classic single fin quiver. First board, the O'Neill single fin was a garage sale purchased for $8. I will never let that go and still ride it from time to time. I still remember that first wave when I actually did a bottom turn, and rode it until the wave died. Stoked.

Ryan

 

Sorry Barry, on SI the correct spelling is this: B=========D Brewer

 

Back in 76' bought a board from Claude Cogden " Sunshine Surfboards" it was 6'-3" swallow tail single fin, the board was one of the best board I have ever surfed, it made my style smooth and consistent but still had the opportunity to turn on a dime, ragged it out and have never found one like that again...damn I loved that single fin board.