Fin set up for SUP?

General Discussion
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Getting close to finishing up a SUP…

It’s 9’4" by 31.5" by 28" nose by 23" tail, square, about 4.25 thick at the rails which are stepped.

The tail is thinned out some, the rails are hard/soft/very hard.

Nose rocker is 4.75, tail is about 2.25.

It looks like I will need side fins to help out the single unless I put in a 14" or something. I dont plan on surfing anything bigger than 2’ with it.

I built it from scraps, even using resin I had tinted but not set off.

The blanks were two 9’8"'s that were more or less junk but I cut them down and glued them together and got rid of the soft foam.

I also forgot to knock down the free lap and got to do some grinding and basting…

I am in it 74.00 right now…hell yeah!

Oh, fabric inlay on the nose courtesy of my little girl…sequins! Friggin’ sequins!

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your apple tree needs pruning!

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Can I make fins from the pruning?

(its actually a ‘Golden Chain’ tree of some sort…)

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Looked suspiciously like the haggard apple trees I had to trim this year…

If it’s for paddling and surfing small, non-critical surf, you could go with a center fin.

Probox Larry has some nice fins that work well as crossovers between the two functions.

PS. Sequins == Speed!

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Thats what I am hoping for, just a tall single set forward a bit in the box with enough area to it for stability when parked but still allowing some turning.

The sequins…OMG! My girl is 5 and she helps pick out colors. When I mentioned fabric, she reached into mom’s stash of belly dance material and grabbed the sequined cloth. It laid out ok as its thin, I put under a double 4 and it seems tight to the blank.

Cant wait for the peanut gallery to comment in the line up…

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That’s not an apple tree, that’s a marijuana plant with all the leaves plucked off!

They grow 'em big in Oregon.

Why do you think his Swaylock’s name is surfing high!

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Ha! I am so busted! (explains that crusty lap too!)

Of course, in Cali, those sequins would be all the rage, say of I lived in West Hollywood…

I finished the bottom last night and this morning, I am going with ten FU 10.5 boxes strategically placed along the rails and stringer.

I figure I will fill them all with every fin I have and just start pulling the fins out until the damn things turns or sinks…

Didn’t Mark Liddell of T/C do that once? I recall a picture of a board with 10 glassed on fins, he paddled out and broke them off one at a time till the board worked…

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I asked Greg Griffin about that board a couple of years ago, and if memory serves me right, he said that the fins were not placed strategically on that board to perform, they just glassed them on to display their fins. I believe that it was Buttons who took it out for the staged magazine article.

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Hey Mahana, howgozit? Still mowing the echotech’s up here.

I remember the fins being all over the board in the article, probably right it was Buttons.

Mahalo, Tony

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Hey Tony- I haven’t had the chance to mow any of it yet. I went back to the fire academy and re-injured my upper/mid back. I put aside around 60 or so blanks for myself and as soon as I’m healed I will get to shaping I had a lot of orders stacking up while I was gone. How’s the foam looking?

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It goes good, haven’t broke one yet! I have done 13 boards now, from 6’6" stringerless fish to this giant SUP I am finishing (two 9’8" stringerless put together).

The foam is tight, a few nasties here and there but no overshaping worries and it glasses easy and bright white.

Not bragging but the other day at our little spot there were four of us out-every board was one I shaped and glassed, team backyard shaper!

My glassing is still suspect and ugly but I am getting there.

The cool thing is, guys have started shaping all around me up here, I passed along quite a few for cheap and got some others stoked on doing their own boards.

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I’d go quad with a FU center box, given how chubby that baby is.

BTW, nice/creative job putting those two blanks together.[code]

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Yeah, I am putting in 10.5" and starting with a 11" Nose Rider fin, a lot of area for stability when parked. I am wondering whats going to happen if I do grab a waist high wave and roll in on rail, I imagine unless I sink the tail, the fin will pop out.

Never been a fan of sidebites but there is that option.

As far as putting the two together, thanks, used a scrap piece of cedar for the stringer and 100 feet of rubber rope to put it together.

Just finished the last deck lam, one more rail/bottom hotcoat and time to see if she floats, lol!

The weight is still ok but moving it around is a pain, its not long but when the blank was 35 wide…wow.