Name or show evidence of another pic in living memory where you can witness a tubing roostertail, power turn, rail induced reverse wave about to break back over the lip of the tubing falling lip of the ocean induced original wave being ridden…that is insane on it’s own merit.
I wish i was trying to drop in just at that point, would have got the tube of my life while still paddling.
Was there any more frames?/ not that it matters, could have fallen off and still got my vote for carve of the week++++
Peter, sorry I hav’nt got back to you, hav’nt had much access to a computer and been a bit crook. I suppose you could call it a flock of wings. The back one is sorta like the red tip, only it’s the old multi fin one , for a finbox. The sides are especially designed for the sides, Tommy Carroll has been using them for a four finner, originally designed just for normal 3 fin sides or 2 + 1, in different sizes, he put them together for a 4 finner. The five fin is a board that I made to try Neal’s fin out on, then thought might as well put extra plugs in, it looks wild. I surfed it yesterday with the back fin 1" further back and it went good. No they are’nt in production. I hav’nt got around to trying Neal’s setup yet. cheers H.
Hey harry,howzit goin?Still playin with fins n design i see!!Impressive results!!Nobody iv’e seen thrashes it that hard!!How’s that crazy bro of yours goin?Still up to his old tricks i hear!!Milton the monster{mitch} blockhead,and now silverbak!
Hey Silly, how’s it going mate, been away for a bit, good some great waves, good rest, good books, good tucker, happy refreshed man. Then I went down for a surf today, fçk it’s been pumping here lately, made Danny Wills a new board before I went, came back got my normal born to park deal, had the grommets , 3 hours wake up to the beach, anyway there’s guys coming up to me as I’m trying to put the kids sunscreen on, saying he has been man of the match for the last 4 days, a photographer said to me he got a 16 second barrell. I cant believe how small boards he rides, same size as me 70 kg, he’s riding 5’11"*18 * 2 1/8", I got down there to see a couple of his last waves, gotta make him a 6’1" and a 6’3"for Chopes, fvvk can you imagine going there with boards so small. You know something, I have never agreed with concave between the fins, you never know Danny might just do us both a favour. I know I won’t be going there, maybe as a younger man, I’m still alive though and that is saying something, cheers mate, H. p.s. forgot to say, I did’nt get a f//ken wave out there today, that is a deadset nightmare. I’m liken playen with the kids, and perving on the Brazilan chicks, the blokes are another story, it’s starting to get pretty narcy, graffitti, the boys are about over it.
Hey Mate, where r u at, I know they have stock, funny how they told me, the new rep did’nt know it was my fin , oh yea the redtip’s dead we’re not gonna make any more. I know they have some stock, I own the design in Australia, we’ve got Neal jnr’s new one , four side wings that Tommy Carrol and Glen Winton have been riding, maybe some other fin company should open their mind, I won’t get worked up about it, but I doubt if anyone in the world has done as much work on wingfins as me, it’s a living thing, bloody dirty, good when I’m finishing them. cheers H. p.s. got my computer back, should have it up and runnig this week and then I can bother all of you again.
Harris… I’m in the dark on your fins that are mentioned so highly on this thread, I would like to have a look at them, do you have a website or maybe a few pix you could email to me? would be much appreciated, thank you
why is it that everytime I hit spell check my computer freezes and I lose these great replies and posts all the time… anyway, had a great reply to you Huie but lost it, I am familiar with this fin in no other way than just having “seen it before”, I think what i am having diffficulty with visualizing this type of fin used in clusters like 3, 4, and 5 in all fin slots, maybe I misundertood some of the prior posts in the thread but are people putting this style of fin in the forward boxes of say a thruster set up?.. and I think someone said they used them in a quad fin and maybe even a 5 fin set up in the thread… it just seems to me that putting this fin in any other box but the trailer box of a tri fin set up/bonzer 5 fin it would cause a lot of drag effect, but maybe the small wings create a hydrofoil type effect/lifting the board?.. just having a hard time visualizing for ex a quad with all four boxes with this type of fin in it?.. I’ll re-read some of the posts but this is my basic understanding of what has been said above; I am a complete novice on design and board building and enjoy lurking here becasue it teaches me about these things I know very little if anything about… maybe someday I will stop only being a surfer and venture into making my first board and maybe even trying to foil a fin but first i need to figure out the definition of the word “foil”… heard it for 38 yrs almost and still cannot say i could define it… if anywhere is gonna push you into it it sure as heck is Sways…
