I hope you are riding these in your new location , Greg ! [did anyone notice, by the way ??!!]
W-E-L-L …
since you are a “Midnight Oil” fan [it may be this song that got you started eh ?]
"everything’s set ,
everything’s fine,
you just gotta stand
IN LINE …"
[Every time I read your “profile” ,
I thought …
" Heck , SOMEONE’S gotta do it , eh ?"
Well, I suppose it may as well be me , in the absence of others giving it a go ?!
cheers
ben
So, Greg …
how do you reckon the "inline single fin " thing will go on a short wide fish shape ??
…I’m thinking you probably normally ride them on a pintail, or very narrow rounded squaretail single fin , yes ?
Hopefully , when it’s all cured in the morning , and later, sanded down , I “might” be able to give it a trial ride some time over the next week or so …
The other reason for that plug so far back , behind the single fin box , is so I can have a one-tabbed fcs back fin for a thruster setup , not as far forward as the fin box makes it , but at 3 1/2" from the tail tip, instead ! The back plug of the front pair of side plugs [!] is at 11 1/2" up from the tail…
Of course , I will also be able to ride it as a five finner too… and … possibly even a SIX finner now !!
…with thanks to "Zosurf’', and his “S.O.S. board” , for the inspiration …cheers mate , if you are still lurking here from time to time ?!
ben
Hey Chip, (don’t know about the esq. bit!)
Yeah, I’m still lurking. Not too much time to sit at a computer though.
Glad to see you trying an in-line at last. You should know that bushfire board well enough to feel what that setup will do, and I hope you like it. Should be smooth at least.
It will be interesting for you to try different size back fins, actually all fins!
Haven’t made myself a board yet, but I’m planning on in-line fins. Not sure what the honchos will think, but hey, it should confirm the ability to do custom boards.
Keep us informed on how it goes. I’m interested in more feedback.
Nice- ANOTHER fin plug on that board. I can’t wait to get the report on this one- looks interesting and seems like it’ll work, so let us know
…I did a thruster shape but with a single fin an stabilizer in line in 1997 or 98 and surfed it to 2001…
…this is one of the best fins configuration for a thruster shape to ride beach breaks toobs…
…I do not know about your stabilizer so way back…may be too anchoring or may be it dont work like an stab. in this position…
If you put the little one in front it is a mini vortex generator.
As I recall Greg has done in line fins with the smaller fin at the back and the other way around
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hi Roy !
how does your one go ?
I seem to remember you had a tunnel fin , with another fin ?behind ? / ?in front of ? it
sorry , remiss of me to forget , mate !
have you ever tried that setup on a board , say, around the 6’6 - 7’6 range , like a fairly gunny pintail , Roy ? If so , I would be very interested to read how THAT went …
cheers from W.A. !
ben
p.s. - …this was half an hour ago …‘Popeye’ [Pascal] was , hopefully, ‘sailing’ through these [somewhere] , while I was loving my doona’s warmth … “holey gaping wetsuits, batman … it’s rubber repair time , methinks !”
…‘Pops’ is “out there” , somewhere ! …
Hi Ben,
I suppose you could call my tunnel behind a central fin an inline setup, hadn’t really thought of it that way. Right now we have the tunnel/single sytem on a 7’5" x 21’ pintail, and on an two 8’1" boards, one a narrowish pintail and the other a wider roundtail. They are what my son James has been riding, he has two 7’5"s, one with the tunnel and one a single, he never rides the single. he’s only a grommet, but he does like the tunnel boards.
Didn’t mean to turn this into a my board thread, actually interested in Greg’s inline stuff, just struck me that the little one in front would resemble Mark spindlers vortex generators.
The Vort-X tunnels are coming soon, only a few of them at first, the factory had to do a rethink when they got the prototype as the fin is only 2mm thick. We are going for glass on rather than tabs because it’s lower drag. Not much glassing on is needed as the shape is so stable, just a few drops of resin or superglue will do the trick, no rovings needed.
Nice looking waves. … flatness over here
Roy.