''I’ll post pictures. But, right now I can’t even see pictures. Can I post them if I can’t see them? I took the baseline measurements from a friend’s fish with the Pavel quads and adjusted them a bit to suit my board. His fish is a Coletta from Santa Cruz. Mine are glass on although I would like to get set-up with Lokbox…" . Mike
thanks for the emailed pics , Mike !
here are the resized [and closely cropped ] results…
sorry to bump this thread up again but i’ve finally finished my canard quad fins & thought those folks who helped with fin templates might appreciate seeing what i came up with. special thanks again to ‘rooster’ & ‘gill’ for sending me templates, i used one each guys.
took me a fair while to get nice even foil with the ply & much longer to get a nice clear halo around the fin with rovings & cloth. just lots of half-hour sessions with resin fumes & sticky fingers, then sand the next day, then more sticky fingers. fiddly, but relaxing too. i’ve always found mucking around with surfboards (even if it’s just fixing dings) is good therapy!
did a bit of templating outlines last night. hope to get into shaping soon. maybe i’ll start a new thread that follows the journey from shaping bay to saltwater. they’re the kind of threads i love the most on swaylocks.
"did you use BLACK AND WHITE film , to show the nice wood colours , Nathan ??? " [geez, I tell ya what …I [nearly] pissed myself laughing , when I realised !!]
…d’oh !!!
and you are a photographer and film maker aren’t you mate ?!
heheh [sorta !]
cheers !
ben
…maybe next time , you could use COLOUR film , so then we can actually SEE the “rich , honey colour” eh mate ??
Glad to see that the fins came out well Nathan, but form the look of your last board I didn’t expect anything other than outstanding. Hope you dont have the same hassle as me with my last timber fins though. Hows this, maiden voyage of my 5’11" fish. Slightly sloppy low tide rock/reef (usually surfed at high tide), got my first wave - a screamer, board flies, comes off the bottom well, nice smooth top turns, flick off in the shallows, start to paddle back out but get pushed sideways as the water sucks out an took the halo off the top of both fins on the shallow reef. Bummer!
mate, bummer about your fins, i know exactly how you feel. i’ve scrubbed the halo off the top of one of my fish keels in the exact same place three times in a row at a little rockshelf nearby. each time i repair the once clean & clear halo it comes out that little bit less clear & more cloudy. a real nuisance, but better to repair the halo than crushed ply i reckon.
it sounds like your quad rides well. good for you. happy surfing to you mate.
I’ve been riding my Freeline quad fish for a couple months now… when I got it they didn’t have the ‘right’ fins, so it’s set up with futures TW 1s in the back and longboard side bites in the front. I’m STOKED on it! I’ve ridden one with rainbow canard quads, and mine feel more flowy, more thruster-like on the cutbacks and easier to control. I’m curious if anyone else has ridden a fish with normal twin fins and small front fins? I’m almost thinking af getting bigger rear fins with more rake to get that solid feel… Does anyone know what other front fins are out there? I’m kind of thinking it my be hard to go back to the “old” thruster!!!
