Over the years I have purchased a number of fins for both the boards I shape and the boards I ride and while their clear and colorized fins might not be on the pro tour Dorsal Fin Co makes a great center fin for a wide range of conditions especially if your just looking to have fun. The fins Ive tried are the Signature Series and the Hatchet Fin which they made originally for the Weber Shop. Anyone that has has a good experience with these fins?
… can you post up some photos of them , please ?
cheers !
ben
Ben,
I don’t have a lot of pictures of my board but here is a close up of my setup and a couple I ripped off of their site dorsalfins.com
wayne
I’ve bought several of the blue one. I’ve had one buzz real bad then the tab wher the screw holds it in snapped. The design of the bottom part is flawed. The red fin looks OK, but I don’t use that shape.
I had a set from them once. Plastic was very brittle and I was shocked how easily one of the fins broke.
Really…Plastic clear fins, I bet those are really durable. Oh and dem plastic fins is cheap too… Oh yeah they just got to be good quality.
Who needs fiberglass in fins anyway. Hey all those quality boards back in the 60 had some plastic fins.
You get what you pay for.
I cannot understand why anyone would make fins like that. It’s pretty much the same thing that was done 40 years ago and quickly abandoned because they broke so easily.
Up here in the cold corner you could snap one by just doing a hard bottom turn when the water temp was low enough.
I’ve seen some of your postings before I think but I’ve sold probably 1000 boards with this brand and turbo tunnel an had maybe 3-4 breaks. In both cases both brands give you a replacement at no charge.
They also make all their models in a glass filled option. A couple that rides tandem at my shop uses a glass filled hatched and has sweared by it for the last three years.
The resin used in the 60’s was an Urethane blend and would become brittle and discolor but these manufactures use Lexan Polycarbonate. I think a lot has changed. I just saw FCS is coming out with a longboard line with the same material.
Wayne,
Lexan was in common usage, at Fins Unlimited, in '67 and 68 onward. I know, because I bought fins from them, at the time. They (FU) also produced a black fiber filled lexan series of fins, at that time, as well Glass fins were ALWAYS preferred by surfers. The plastics, by kooks and posers, without a lick of knowledge. Little has changed, except the dumbing down of the consumer public. Think about it, 1968 was 45 YEARS AGO ! And you think a lot has changed? Really?
thrailkill is 100% correct. Lexan polycarbonate was used by FU, WAVESET, and a few others in the late 60s and early 70s. It sucked then, and it still does. The black lexan fins with glass fibers were stronger, but they had weird flex characteristics and were prone to deformation.
The molded fins in the 60s, like the proprietary ones from Hobie, Hansen, etc, were made with polypropelene, not urethane. Horrible stuff for fins.
Seems like someone might have a vested interest in these? All the responses have been negative. I got these purely on a cost basis, but they didn’t work out. If you push them too hard they will break.
I bought a couple of the blue plastic ones, cheap price, my bad. They were flimsy plastic and felt funny riding, lesson learned.
Turbo Tunnel.
Really?
That fin is a POS.
As is just about anything made of that cheap plastic.
Bill T. knows.
Listen to Bill.
I bought 2 of them,way to much flex and the edges are super sharp.I fixed up 2 free longboards and put these in just to try the boards out then sold them off to the next kook.i bought a 10" and 8" and the 8" was a little stiffer if that helps
Don’t tell Roy!
And he only charges $80 each!
I forgot to mention that. P T Barnum was right.
This thread is reminding me of two things:
(1) that eBay seller that sells yellow “Turbo” side bites that suck b*lls (plastic, crappiest quality you can imagine) and
(2) every other shill thread I’ve seen on any site where there’s an industry presence and some random shill who doesn’t even read the board shows up trying to pretend they’re a consumer when they’re a shill, often the merchant or manufacturer or some bottom-dwelling sycophant friend of the manufacturer or dealer.
I’m not saying it’s “number 2” but it really really smells like “number 2.”