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- Fri Mar 23, 2018 10:47 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: The Good Luck A Number One McCoy Thread
- Replies: 272
- Views: 193205
Re: The Good Luck A Number One McCoy Thread
Time to resurrect this thread. Last year I mainly rode the Zots and my wave count in all wave sizes went up dramatically. I was suddenly in the game of pulling the primo waves in up to double overhead conditions in the B team line-up. Towards the end of the year I bought two poly Nuggets, a 6'8 and...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 9:29 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Get this!
- Replies: 291
- Views: 112190
Re: Get this!
How did you test them - just stick them on a board and surf? I surfed them myself, but that is only good for basic strength testing. I don't surf well enough to be quite certain which fin is better than another, if both fins are good fins. It turns out that none of the fins I surfed myself were act...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:52 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Get this!
- Replies: 291
- Views: 112190
Re: Get this!
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.
For each of the sea-worthy fins in the photo there were multiple precursors that never made it anywhere near the ocean.
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:31 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Get this!
- Replies: 291
- Views: 112190
Re: Get this!
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 ...
- Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:26 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Get this!
- Replies: 291
- Views: 112190
Re: Get this!
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: GullWhale-7-S-11mm.png The ride reports are extremely encouraging. GullWhale-7...
- Fri Jul 28, 2017 8:23 am
- Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
- Topic: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
- Replies: 79
- Views: 109853
Re: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
I don't even have a Zap, too hard to surf for my mediocre abilities.
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 10:50 pm
- Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
- Topic: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
- Replies: 79
- Views: 109853
Re: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
Darren Rogers wrote: " makes everyone happy and then in the end , looks , (using my favourite word for boards ) ORGANIC. A few shots of the stoke im still feeling. Thanks to Cheyne for giving me the opportunity to work with his designs then fully flex my shaping muscles " Well, it does not make Geof...
- Thu Jul 27, 2017 7:24 pm
- Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
- Topic: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
- Replies: 79
- Views: 109853
Re: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
I think it's Cheyne Horan at the moment: http://www.cheynehoran.com.au/surfshop/ ... tegoryId=4
- Mon Jun 13, 2016 8:06 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Get this!
- Replies: 291
- Views: 112190
Re: Get this!
Oh well, I'm going to make my own fins from now on. Roy told me he has stopped producing the printed polycarbonate fins.
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 4:33 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Get this!
- Replies: 291
- Views: 112190
Re: Get this!
Roy is not the only one who thinks that BLEF fins are very efficient but hard to manufacture: See this Video starting from 0:24:30 .
DARPA had a play around with bumpy fins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vICFah-aDFY
DARPA had a play around with bumpy fins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vICFah-aDFY
- Sun Jan 03, 2016 9:03 pm
- Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
- Topic: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
- Replies: 79
- Views: 109853
Re: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
Oh, sorry, I thought EVERYONE must be on the Gold Coast, it just looks like it lately!Cranked wrote:Thanks MrMic, unfortunately I'm in Perth tho'.
- Sun Jan 03, 2016 7:48 pm
- Forum: Logs, eggs and alternatives
- Topic: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
- Replies: 79
- Views: 109853
Re: Geoff McCoy Surfboards Collectors Corner
Would the double ender be good for weak summer longboard type waves??. Single fin Yeah, absolutely, the difference between the TSA 6'8 and the 7' was huge, but its not a mal by any means. I have 3 2+1 boards that I ride around Perth (6'4 fat arsed wombat, 7'10 Takayama egg and a custom 7' pin tail ...
- Wed Sep 30, 2015 8:30 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Nth NSW sharks. Can they p!ss off already?
- Replies: 2710
- Views: 2542901
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:52 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1879487
Re: Ask Carroll
Thank you very much Nick, it was a most interesting read. Hope you got something out of it as well.
If you get to try out a McCoy one day, I'd still like to know what you think about it.
Ciao! I'm out of here, too.
If you get to try out a McCoy one day, I'd still like to know what you think about it.
Ciao! I'm out of here, too.
- Fri Sep 18, 2015 12:41 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ask Carroll
- Replies: 6904
- Views: 1879487
Re: Ask Carroll
No Sharkas, either!
- Sun Sep 13, 2015 9:33 pm
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: New Generation Composite McCoys
- Replies: 29
- Views: 36869
Re: New Generation Composite McCoys
Sorry MrMic, but you're going to hate me. I've owned four Surftech 7'11'' single fins over the last 10 years, the most recent about 4 months ago. Even took one to Indo and surfed good waves on it. They've always been disappointing, for me they offer a very restricted performance subset of a McCoy t...
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:36 pm
- Forum: General surf discussion
- Topic: Ebay Bargains thread
- Replies: 1819
- Views: 728124
Re: Ebay Bargains thread
Meyerhoffer eat your heart out!batoes wrote:Just came across this amazing board at an amazing price:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Long-Board-S ... 2806f3bf7a
Someone's gonna get lucky!
- Sat Sep 12, 2015 11:10 pm
- Forum: Shortboarders only!
- Topic: New Generation Composite McCoys
- Replies: 29
- Views: 36869
Re: New Generation Composite McCoys
Nice mate hues it ride? The wooden McCoy got some stiff competition soon after I finally got it: The fabled 7'11 Surftech Single Fin Nugget. I had been chasing one for years and did not think I'd ever get one. Well. I did! So, I have been surfing the Surftech much more often than the wooden version...