Speed Diler Turbo or Cutaway?

General Discussion
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I have a Pavel Quan with standard speed dialer lokbox fins.

I wanted to buy a spare set of fins for when travelling

What are the pro and cons of the different versions…

Cutaway

Turbo

Any other templates worth trying?

Thanks

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search the archives/ the forums. this has been discussed. I am pretty sure the thread title was the same even. Not to seem like an ass, but this is definetly out there.

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Noted I did search before but obviously not hard enough!

http://www.swaylocks.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=341674;search_string=speed%20dialer%20fin;#341674

Form Lokbox

Quote:

The turbos add drive and hold. Some people find them tracky. The surfers that do well with them are guys that surf hard off the tail. They have the same flex as the regular speedialers which is why they hold in so well. If you like riding a wide tail fish in big or hollow surf the turbos are great. You hear alot of complaints that you can’t square a bottom turn backside on a fish. The turbos fix that and let you punch it off the bottom without holding back…

But what about the non turbo cutaway? I guess they are just looser right ? … or are they designed for lighter riders?

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Cut aways are going to be looser. less area, less resistance and theoretically, less drag in proportion to fin size as the are where fin is removed is in the turbulent boudary layer.