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- crabmeat thompson
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I could kill a man with that thing.
I'll take two.
I'll take two.
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Nice design... If you lose it, it'll come back to you..
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Mall benches, wax combs and now IUD's! There's no stopping you Roy.
Love your work.
Love your work.
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The moving finger writes and having writ moves on ... now all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel even half a line ... nor all thy tears wash out a single word of it.
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Yep that's the fin it's based on, the original has a very poor foil though and of course no leading edge bumps, plus ours is only a fraction of the weight of solid glass.
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according to who ?.....never heard complaints from any McCoy riders....Roy_Stewart wrote:......... the original has a very poor foil though .
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Obvious Kiwi rip off of the boomerang. They'll be claiming Pavlova next.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?
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looks sweeet Roy.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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I've got a normal gullwing in my mccoy single. What's the advantages of yours roy? Layman terms, if you please
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Why does it look sweet to you Steve? What positives do you recognize in the design elements of that fin?steve shearer wrote:looks sweeet Roy.
Trev wrote:I have always had a lot of time for Dick
smnmntll wrote:Got one in the mouth once, that was pretty memorable
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It doubles as a bush saw.godsavethequeen wrote:What's the advantages of yours roy? Layman terms, if you please
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well I've been testing the spitfire version and I'm impressed with the weight, foil and flex, as well as the overall design. The fin performs very well.
I already have a McCoy with a gull wing so It would make a perfect blind test against a fin I know already works well.
Also, excited to test that gullwing in other single fin based designs to see how it goes.
I already have a McCoy with a gull wing so It would make a perfect blind test against a fin I know already works well.
Also, excited to test that gullwing in other single fin based designs to see how it goes.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes
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Not all McCoy riders prefer the Gull Wing as I'm sure you know, the foil could be part of the reason.kayu wrote:according to who ?.....never heard complaints from any McCoy riders....Roy_Stewart wrote:......... the original has a very poor foil though .
Anyway foil design is well researched and the McCoy original I have in front of me has several known issues, which to be fair are in common with a large percentage of single fins:
1) a flat area through the middle of the chord, this produces bumps or corners in the curve fore and aft of the flat area.
2) an overly large leading edge radius, this causes drag.
3) a rather thin foil, again common to many singles, this reduces ability to turn through tighter arcs and encourages spin out at higher angles of attack.
4) It's just not a well worked out foil, it's a standard sort of result typical of fins ground out by disc sander particularly those which are on a box base since this makes proper foiling more difficult.
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A realsurf member's discount?steve shearer wrote:well I've been testing the spitfire version and I'm impressed with the weight, foil and flex, as well as the overall design. The fin performs very well.
I already have a McCoy with a gull wing so It would make a perfect blind test against a fin I know already works well.
Also, excited to test that gullwing in other single fin based designs to see how it goes.
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Roy, a friend of mine surfs a modern adaptation of MP's famous cutty board. Its around 5'9" x 20" x 2 3/4" with modern bottom and foil. Looks very similar in planshape to the old MP board. Its one of Mark Pridmores MP3's.
What size and foil shape single fin in your range would you recommend him to try in that board? Its designed to be a 2+1, so the tail a tad wider than a pure single fin. If that changes your advice.
Thanks!
What size and foil shape single fin in your range would you recommend him to try in that board? Its designed to be a 2+1, so the tail a tad wider than a pure single fin. If that changes your advice.
Thanks!
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It should have way more drive and much better control, as well as less drag and less weight.godsavethequeen wrote:I've got a normal gullwing in my mccoy single. What's the advantages of yours roy? Layman terms, if you please
Good looking too.
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