Fins: how to secure them?

General Discussion
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Hi there!

I’ve just put fins on place, I glue them on the board with some lam resin, then I put on each side of the fins two lays of fiber, with lam resin.

The problem is: I didn’t put any rope at the base of the fins, because I don’t how to make a fiber rope…

I have 4 oz fiber lays, how do I create a fiber rope?

Sorry for my bad English…

Chaby

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Hey Chaby,

Check out this link - towards the bottom of the page, it walks through doing them without rope.

http://www.surfersteve.com/fins.htm

By the way, you’re English is very good.

Best,

HerbB

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Thank you for your answer Herb. I’m gonna replace the fiber rope with 4 - 4 oz. strips 1/2" - 1" wide on each side.

The problem is that I did the hot coat, I guess that I will have to do another hot coat on the strip after laminating them…

What do you think?

Chaby

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Chaby,

Sounds like you’re on track - Just make sure you sand your present hot coat in preparation of the layers (to get rid of the hot-coat’s wax surface ).

Best of luck,

HerbB

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Besides directly bonding the fin base to the board’s bottom after hot coating, or pre-installing a fin box, you could rout out the bottom and inlay the fin base - very secure, BUT a hard whack on a fin will do some board bottom damage.

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