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Re: Get this!

Post by Wubic Pig » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:30 pm

steve shearer wrote:Is Roy still alive?
Last seen walking into a gay nightclub
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Re: Get this!

Post by Wubic Pig » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:30 pm

steve shearer wrote:Is Roy still alive?
Washed ashore on a Brazilian beach
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Re: Get this!

Post by Wubic Pig » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:32 pm

steve shearer wrote:Is Roy still alive?
Locked up in Guantanomo in his orange steamer
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Re: Get this!

Post by Beanpole » Mon Jun 13, 2016 6:51 pm

In a concrete bunker with a cupboard full of tinned beans and corned beef.
Put your big boy pants on
I mean, tastebuds? WGAF?

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Re: Get this!

Post by MrMik » Mon Jun 13, 2016 8:06 pm

Oh well, I'm going to make my own fins from now on. Roy told me he has stopped producing the printed polycarbonate fins.

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Re: Get this!

Post by diggerdickson » Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:03 am

well that was an interesting and telling read.
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Re: Get this!

Post by offshore1 » Tue Jun 14, 2016 12:14 am

Isn't Roy a millionaire now? He doesn't have time for nickel and dime bullshit from wageslave cubemonkey battlers.
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Re: Get this!

Post by batoes » Tue Jun 14, 2016 7:54 pm

saltman wrote:
MrMik wrote:Oh well, I'm going to make my own fins from now on. Roy told me he has stopped producing the printed polycarbonate fins.
That explains it .... the micro collapse of his business and my $90.
No hard feelings Roy ..hope the sun rises kindly on yours
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That sucks - but truth told - so did the fin. I used it in my mlv and the board turned, but there was no drive. The fin was flimsy. Let's see if those comments bring him back here.

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Post by Drailed » Tue Jun 14, 2016 7:55 pm

He posts on instagram occasionally...
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Post by Trev » Tue Jun 14, 2016 7:58 pm

Pretty sure the fins were only a small part of his business.
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Re: Get this!

Post by steve shearer » Thu Jun 16, 2016 6:42 am

i really liked the fins.
I want Nightclub Dwight dead in his grave I want the nice-nice up in blazes

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Re: Get this!

Post by carvin marvin » Thu Jun 16, 2016 12:16 pm

The bumpy leading edge has more surface area than a fin with no bumps, therefore more drag.
Think corrugated iron, when it comes off the roll it's much wider.

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Re: Get this!

Post by Beerfan » Thu Jun 16, 2016 12:39 pm

You'll definately get he back in here talking about drag lol.

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Re: Get this!

Post by steve shearer » Thu Jun 16, 2016 1:00 pm

there's more to drag than surface area in hydrodynamics.

the fins definitely felt drag "free"
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Re: Get this!

Post by MrMik » Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:26 pm

MrMik wrote:
Mon Jun 13, 2016 8:06 pm
Oh well, I'm going to make my own fins from now on. Roy told me he has stopped producing the printed polycarbonate fins.
Here we are, 21 months later, and I have developed and produced a fin. I call it the GullWhale fin:
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The ride reports are extremely encouraging.
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I have made a few different versions and tried out a wide range of ways to make them. About 7 surfers have surfed these fins and only one has snapped off in the last 6 months or so of testing. I have since then improved the manufacturing process and I think the fins are much stronger now.
I think the fins are mature enough to start sending a few more out for testing by more surfers.

Steve, would you like to try one out?
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Re: Get this!

Post by channels » Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:04 pm

How big are they? How do they improve on existing templates?

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Re: Get this!

Post by MrMik » Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:31 pm

channels wrote:
Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:04 pm
How big are they? How do they improve on existing templates?
194cm^2 area
Depth 250mm

Main improvements: Very high aspect ratio but 'Curviness' everywhere.
Designed using finFoil https://finfoil.io/ until it looks most pleasing to my eyes (which is a long and slow process).

It results in very high lift to drag ratio and an exceptionally forgiving nature.

Picture shows a yellow GullWhale fin and a red HARFTUB-7 in relation to an 8ft board. The HARFTUB fin is 11mm shorter and has practically the same area (193.45mm^2).
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Re: Get this!

Post by MrMik » Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:52 pm

I have experimented with basically 4 outlines and then permutated them through multiple different foils, thicknesses, thickness distributions, and different numbers of tubercles.

For each of the sea-worthy fins in the photo there were multiple precursors that never made it anywhere near the ocean.
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