hey guys i planing to make keel fins for my retro fish and am looking for a keel template to print out or a link to some were i can get one. i have never made them before and am not sure what size and shape to make to suit my 6'2 - 22 - 2 3/8 board will be making out for redwood to match board stringer
cheers antony
look around, it's the internet. Then eyeball your own based on what you see. Use it if you like it, try something different if you don't.
yeah i done some looking and i guess the "norm" is 9inch base with 5inch rise and i looked at a bunch of threads on fishes with keels, i was just thinking someone may have a print out so i can get a good shape. i can just do my own but i know very little on fins i have made a few timber g5s and g7s but i just copyed them off my fcs ones. i know fins can make or break a board and i intend to glass them on so want to get it as close to right as i can before i do
cheers antony
(www.greenlightsurfsupply.com) Has some cool templates among other things.[img_assist|nid=1048778|title=greenlight keel fin template|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=349|height=640]
cheers lavarat printed that out and re-scaled should work out mint, for outline.
hey when you foil a keel is it flat one side foil on other or i have read about 20/80 foils is that just a small foil on inside the rest on out side and what differnce does it make ?
antony
Yeah I was going to suggest that Greenlight template as a starting point.I used very similar size n shape on my first twin keel and no complaints at all.
As for foil , I think the conventional wisdom is , if you’re going the full retro , no toe , no cant - it’s double foiled for you.
If you’re toeing and canting the fins , which most do nowadays, for performance and user friendliness - single foil.Just a rule of thumb, I guarantee there’s a top tier shaper somewhere who uses all dble foiled keels.
As far as I know ( and I’m just a garage hack and longtime Swayite parroting what I’ve been studying here for years) 80/20 assymetrical foils seem to be reserved for quad traliing fins.
Looking forward to seeing the fruit of your labours.
thanks for that i think will go with single foil, i think i got a bit confused on the 80/20 foil i have read way to may things on here and trying to put it into some kind of order cheers for the help
antony
antony,
I'll snail mail you some keel templates if you like. PM an adress. Mike
hey so i tacked my keels on i set the 5 1/4 up from the tale 1 1/8 in from the rail 3/16 toe and 5deg cant i hope this will work ok i took a strait edge and lined it up past the nose it ended up just under 2 inches of the center of nose
what do you guys think will it work?
cheers for advice
antony
hey ment to say the toe in is 3/16 th at 4 inchs from the tail of fin
