Anyone ever tried one of these? I saw it on the F.U. site and I was wondering if it might be good for a 10-footer. If you placed it far enough forward, and moved your fin all the way up, you could almost have a keel setup, while still having the ability to keep a normal setup, right? Or would that kind of placement just screw things up? Hey, you could even fit a trailing fin in there??? Anyone experimented with this? Are there even longer boxes out there? Dale? Anyone?
Anyone ever tried one of these? I saw it on the F.U. site and I was > wondering if it might be good for a 10-footer. If you placed it far enough > forward, and moved your fin all the way up, you could almost have a keel > setup, while still having the ability to keep a normal setup, right? Or > would that kind of placement just screw things up? Hey, you could even fit > a trailing fin in there??? Anyone experimented with this? Are there even > longer boxes out there? Dale? Anyone? Maybe if you were going to make the rear fin swivel and add a handle. Other than that, you will probably only invent a new move called the “bullwhip”. ha! Seriously, it’d be screwed up. Anybody else? Jake
In the 70s a friend of mine Les Pronier created ultra long boxes by angle cutting the ends off of two boxes and epoxy gluing the long parts together.Shortly after this Fins Unlimited started selling ultra long boxes.These longer boxes were primarily used in single fin Stingers.Herb.
Nah, I wasn’t seriously thinking about trying to fit two fins in one box. I was more curious what it would be like to have a fin all the way up in one of these boxes. If you put a 15-inch box say, 6 or 8 inches up from tail, then place the fin all the way forward, your fin would be almost 2 feet up from the tail…I was just wondering what that kind of placement would do. I would imagine it would feel pretty weird at first, obviously. Maybe it might be pretty stiff? Perhaps someone’s already tried it and it sucked, and that’s why no one does it anymore? Anyway, a previous thread discussing keel fins got me wondering. I think I’ll glue a bunch of boxes together and make a super long one that runs about the full length of the board. Sure, I’d have to throw in a super fat, 4-inch-wide stringer if I wanted it to hold up, but what the hay…I wish I had the money and time to try crazy stuff like that…Just thinking out loud…and wondering if anyone’s thought like this before…deeb…
Nah, I wasn’t seriously thinking about trying to fit two fins in one box. > I was more curious what it would be like to have a fin all the way up in > one of these boxes. If you put a 15-inch box say, 6 or 8 inches up from > tail, then place the fin all the way forward, your fin would be almost 2 > feet up from the tail…I was just wondering what that kind of placement > would do. I would imagine it would feel pretty weird at first, obviously. > Maybe it might be pretty stiff? Perhaps someone’s already tried it and it > sucked, and that’s why no one does it anymore? Anyway, a previous thread > discussing keel fins got me wondering.>>> I think I’ll glue a bunch of boxes together and make a super long one that > runs about the full length of the board. Sure, I’d have to throw in a > super fat, 4-inch-wide stringer if I wanted it to hold up, but what the > hay…I wish I had the money and time to try crazy stuff like that…Just > thinking out loud…and wondering if anyone’s thought like this > before…deeb… Alright. six foot long fin box, hmmm. Fill it full of fins and make your board look like a brontasaurus. Yabba-dabba-dooo. A fin two feet or more from the tail? Right after you take off it will try to abruptly swap ends. Hence the “bullwhip” effect. But what the heck, it wouldn’t hurt to try it though if you really want to. You never know. Jake