twinny longboards

[pridmore]

I am making one for myself soon, keen to hear anyones thoughts or experiences with them...and yes, I'm expecting a bit of crap bout jumping on a mal but this is gunna have a shiteload of manouverability, ton of volume and I am gunna get a ton of waves at a local soft point dominated by mals....

[alakaboo]

Never ridden a proper twinny longboard, only 2+1s with bigger sides when I forgot the centre fin screw
the fin configuration isn't the same, but it might be interesting...

down the line and in turns it went alright. really good actually, very easy to pump.
dropping in was a nightmare until you loaded up the inside fin.
If your rail is engaged from takeoff it's alright, but bottom turning wasn't that easy.
That was in a 9'1" HP longboard with a 4" diamond pin tail and lots of late tail kick, very foiled in the nose and quite rockered in the first foot of the nose.

Was talking to a very good longboarder who was riding a twin fin 9'6", he reckons that unless the tail is really pulled in you're better off with a small trailer or a quad.

[pridmore]

thanks..I have a few ideas as far as fin placement goes as well as bottom contours....but this'll be for the really small stuff mostly, not worried about serious bottom turns too much on this one...looking for a fun high volume wave catcher mostly, the twinny will be to liven things up and give it some manouverability...appreciate the input...

[Jorgo]

Nigel Beckam has been making twinnie longboards on the Goldy for a number of years. Think he may only do customs now - but for a while there (5 years or so ago) there were plenty around at the Alley and the Snapper Cooly stretch. No sure they'd be twinnies in your regular sense - but there were only two fins - just placed closer together and more tail oriented :?

[Cpt.Caveman]

I've seen the double pin swallow tail twinny mals, they look pretty interesting. More glide to a package already geared for glide, sounds like a speed record to me

[Cpt.Caveman]