Single fin shortboards

[Wingnut]

[pridmore]

love my single fin shortys in decent waves...also doing MP boards now, just the Fangtail and MOTE cutty models...
http://www.moresurfboards.com/Fangtail.html

and also an MP3 that's a 2+1 which feels more forgiving in less quality waves....

[Roy_Stewart]

Sweet... and the fin looks like it has a nice bit of meat to it.

[Rustt]

I sold this board to a mate 35 years ago and he gave it back to me today, from memory one of the best board I have owned, I"ll find out soon.
6'0" x 20"x 2 5/8" A bit beaten up but still light, better than I expected.

[Cpt.Caveman]

Hows this puppy going for ya wingy?

Looks like a hot knife through butter when the waves have some push.

[Trev]

I sold this board to a mate 35 years ago and he gave it back to me today, from memory one of the best board I have owned, I"ll find out soon.
6'0" x 20"x 2 5/8" A bit beaten up but still light, better than I expected.

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I had one like that back around 1985/6. Very similar shape. Except it had a sort of swallow tail. Bought it second hand when I came back to surfing. Eventually loaded it up to go to the dump and some friends came round to visit and asked if they could have it for their kids.

[Rustt]

This one got used being towed behind a boat for years, Sanded the bottom back today, clean up all the dings and put a new finish coat on it when I get the time. Do ya reckon it would be worth anything? Was shaped by Neill Purchase snr.

[Trev]

This one got used being towed behind a boat for years, Sanded the bottom back today, clean up all the dings and put a new finish coat on it when I get the time. Do ya reckon it would be worth anything? Was shaped by Neill Purchase snr.

Belongs on a wall somewhere I reckon.

"Straight to the pool room".

[Rustt]

Na, hangin board on walls is like the modern version of bolting boards to board racks, use or loos'em I reckons.

Could sell it to the props department for puberty blues. )

[Wingnut]

Hows this puppy going for ya wingy?

Looks like a hot knife through butter when the waves have some push.

Hey Cpt.Caveman,

I last rode it up at Pottsville, Broken Head and Scotts Head...yeah it prefers a bit more juice but it did go well in the small, punchy waves at Pottsville. The rocker isn't severe but I found it easier to catch waves up North rather than on the fatter waves down here in Vic...?

[Rustt]

I sold this board to a mate 35 years ago and he gave it back to me today, from memory one of the best board I have owned, I"ll find out soon.
6'0" x 20"x 2 5/8" A bit beaten up but still light, better than I expected.

Fixed all the dings and put a new finish coat on it and took it for a run out at the local point. I sprained my wrist 2 months ago and have just got back in the water, so being unfit on a board to small for me all I had going for me was enthusiasm. I took it out cause it was a wave that I am familiar with and mellow 4ftbut soon hit 6 and a bit weird, ended up getting 2 good waves that hit the ledge resulting in scarey barrels, board felt good and very fast, as soon it hit the bowl section it flew and was in total control. Says alot for keeping things simple, the bottom on this board is dead flat no v no concave.
So overall it is the board that I thought it was, I just need to get fit to surf it, should be fun.

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[LPJ]

Is a single fin shorty a good option for carving through small, choppy windswell??? I ask because I imagine:
- the fin depth holds it into the wave through bumps.
- the fin flex can maximise drive.
- the small/shortboard amount of surface area can be pumped across smaller waves easier, to generate speed.
- the small surface area and rail length provide less opportunities to catch rail.

Sound alright, anyone do this on the reg?

[steve shearer]

no, they are boring as batshit.

get a good multi-finned shortboard or a log, so much better.

[JET01]

My single fin short board has a 9" salty merchants "matte black" fin in it.
I know it's a 6'1 the rest of the dims aren't written on the board and I haven't measured the tail.
http://forum.realsurf.com/forum/viewtop ... 18#p566373

When the surf gets to around the 3-4ft mark I find it starts to buck me off a fair bit. I haven't been surfing singles long so there's a good chance it's my fault. I rode my longboard as a single quite a bit and didn't seem to have many problems.

Would it be worth going down in fin size in bigger surf surf? The board has a pretty wide tail ( no sure the exact dims )

I'm thinking there might be a bit too much fin area and depth.

Hey Topher I should've asked for your opinion when you were around the other week! You've ridden a few different singles haven't you?

[el rancho]

Lay the fin flat on the board with the base running along the stringer (the fin base itself not the screw base flange thingie) slide it up or down until about a third of the fin tip is protruding past the rail on the tail.

[swvic]

I'm certainly so singly aficionado, but intuitively that is one of the most sensible things I've ever read on RS

[JET01]

I dunno, swishing your fins around in a pool to make figure eights while you do the FA 18 Super Hornet noise comes pretty close.

[LPJ]

I suppose you just get used to, and even like, whatever you're riding. IF you get to have a go in good waves... I surf intermittently, so the idea of being able to rely on drawing out a few cutties (as opposed to trying aerials, tail slides...) no matter what the surf's like or how I'm feeling, is appealing. When you say multi finned shortboard, I think pump, pump, pump, hack. And then I think, I need to have my back foot placement dialed in perfectly over a couple sessions first. When you say log, well it's a bit impractical, and harder to get that aggression (won't knock the idea on the head though).

I'm still curious though about the way I imagine a keel fin. Is it right to think that the flex will help you flick you from rail to rail quicker, say after a bottom turn? In theory, would a longer fin give you more to push against in a turn, and therefore more drive? Especially a small, crumbly, windswell??