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don't use vector fins in that board shearer. I'll send you a good fin set for that thing. pm me an address. you can owe me.

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:03 pm

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Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:48 pm

don't use vector fins in that board shearer. I'll send you a good fin set for that thing. pm me an address. you can owe me.

Oh! So, fins do make a big difference.

foamy wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:35 pm

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:03 pm

top five bores
1 Rock bores
2 Grammar bores
3 Male bores
4 Gender bores
5 Fin bores

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:48 pm

don't use vector fins in that board shearer. I'll send you a good fin set for that thing. pm me an address. you can owe me.

Oh! So, fins do make a big difference.

Maybe Carroll had the wrong fins when he was surfing Kellys pool, too fast, thats why he was dodging the barrell

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It's the first off the rack high per shorty I've had for a long time....sight unseen, never seen one in the flesh before, never fondled one in a surf shop.

After JJF's Margies surfing I wondered if there was anything in it equipment wise for a keen recreational surfer to be able to benefit from....or whether it was strictly the Indian and not the arrow.

When Rielly texted me to say it was ready and sent me a phone number to call, and an address yesterday it was a great day. I rang the number, it said it was disconnected.
I showed up at the address this morning, after dropping off a Japanese gal at the Coolie airport. It was the wrong address. I managed to ask around various sheds in the industrial estate and found the right addy.
I sent D.Rielly a text saying Carroll reckoned I would never get the board and I had been "Rory Parkered"......a furious and very funny volley of text messages followed.

I hit the correct addy up at lunch-time , second trip. I was thinking there had to be some last minute wobble in the deal. And there was. As I was walking out the door with the board, the lady asked me how I was going to pay for it.
My voice went up a couple of octaves: "Pay for it?..no, no, no, this board is already paid for. I paid in blood sweat and tears".
A phone call followed. Finally had the thumbs up.


The board in the flesh is quite a singular design. The round tail is the most normal part of it, then the planing area under the front foot is wider than you would expect. The foil is refined. Under the arm, there is something very unique about the way the forward foil and rocker curve feel. It feels aggressive and I thought some kind of dim echo of a hawaiian down-railer in that front half of the board. It definitely has an hawaiian pedigree.
But nothing alienating. I could imagine surfing it straight away.

You gonna run it as a thruster ?

I dunno Iggs. My first impulse would be to run it as a quad because that is what I'm used to.

foamy wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:35 pm

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 27, 2017 12:03 pm

top five bores
1 Rock bores
2 Grammar bores
3 Male bores
4 Gender bores
5 Fin bores

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:48 pm

don't use vector fins in that board shearer. I'll send you a good fin set for that thing. pm me an address. you can owe me.

Oh! So, fins do make a big difference.

yeah, sure. but not to people who go on about them on the Internet

Ouch

Looks like I'm going to run thruster fins in it.

I assume it’s painted like the Sistine chapel ceiling, given the wait?

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foamy wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:35 pm

Oh! So, fins do make a big difference.

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:48 pm

yeah, sure. but not to people who go on about them on the Internet

Yeah, but it is confusing. They are just seeking some clarity, which for weekend surfers does not seem to be easily available. Nick, if you wrote a longer piece on basic fin principles (you probably have already), taking into account the range of fins available and the range of boards being ridden, I reckon many people would eat it up.

You could have four different types of boards the average joe or joanne surfs and the different fin setups that best suit the range of surfing intentions on those boards.

The fact you reckon Steve needs guidance tells you something.

The Mighty Sunbird wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:17 pm

I assume it’s painted like the Sistine chapel ceiling, given the wait?

Nah it's a fetching shade of green.

Legion wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:30 pm

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 8:57 pm

Looks like I'm going to run thruster fins in it.

Forgot about the quad option pretty quickly in light of a free thruster set, eh.

Nothing free about it Leeg, no free lunches here mate. Carroll is coming over in person to collect payment.
I'll have to invest in a pasta making machine and god knows what else to give him a spread to which he is accustomed.

foamy wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 9:34 pm

foamy wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:35 pm

Oh! So, fins do make a big difference.

Nick Carroll wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:48 pm

yeah, sure. but not to people who go on about them on the Internet

Yeah, but it is confusing. They are just seeking some clarity, which for weekend surfers does not seem to be easily available. Nick, if you wrote a longer piece on basic fin principles (you probably have already), taking into account the range of fins available and the range of boards being ridden, I reckon many people would eat it up.

You could have four different types of boards the average joe or joanne surfs and the different fin setups that best suit the range of surfing intentions on those boards.

The fact you reckon Steve needs guidance tells you something.

There's this thing, it's called Google. Or buy some and try them out maybe? Sounds crazy I know

Yeah. Buy three thousand fins and watch three thousand videos.
Nah. Nick's not even sure.

Then you have a fin shape you think you want, but can you identify the product that fits? And these 12 sets of fins that look pretty much the same, are they really pretty much the same?
Luckily, I just bodysurf and only get on a board once in a blue moon.