My buddy Jeff who checks in here every so often has a couple of Greg Liddle’s hulls. He wants to experiment a little with fins so he sent me a True Ames G-10 9.75" sailboard fin and we talked about what we could get out of it. Here are a few photos that tell the story. Though the fin is foiled out pretty thin only 3/4" of the tip flexs.
Mahalo, Rich
Rich,
Sounds a liddle stiffer than Greg’s fins I have but not so much. I think KP and Matt like more twist in theirs. Stick it in and see how it goes. Sure do look purdy.
My only thought is that it is too deep by about .75 inches. I had a 9.5" that I only used for a short while…it didn’t hook up with the rail as well as a 9". Just too much fin. Your milage may vary (along with tail width). I would imagine that he’ll have to redial the adjustment too…always a joy.
Rich. How’z it…???..
Someone gave me a fin from a sailboard…
Looked similar to what you have, but with a cut-away base…
It had a more vertical aspect than most surfboard fins…
Also differing from a surfboard fin was the 3/4" thickness at the base…
I re-foiled it, again similar to what you did…
It found a permanent home in my 12’0" surf / paddleboard…
The verticalness of the fin worked great for fading right go left top turns…
It had way better “pivot” than any of my other fins…
Here again is an example of what we “Swayaholics” do best…
Experiment and get better results than the “industry” allows us…
rich- sweeeeet! that g-10 stuff is pretty neat.is durable, has really good flex and memory. chuck should make all the l-flex series out of it(though it would push the $ of those fins up)worth it in my opinion.
I can’t wait to try that fin! I like the 9.5" Liddle fin in my squash tail Liddle.Has the magic carpet trim feel
like floating on a cloud.My round tail is more carvy and likes the 9" Liddle fin but can get a bit squirelly.
Probably more from me getting too far back towards the tail.Rich has made me the best fins I’ve ever used so I’m always excited to try another one of his creations.Thanks again Rich.
Wow!
An original KennyHartz design, originally made in Texas by some company that faded away…
Too bad, just today I gave a 9.5 TA Caserio Wave to a bud of mine…perfect condition, of course.
Sabre fins are cool, our glasser, in 1968, Ralph Eni, was prolly the first to use them on short surfboards, as he laid up glass, jigsawed and foiled all by hisself.