This board is fine as a single fin:
But I wanted more options:
Unfortunately, it didn’t work well.
So I’m thinking about doing this madness:
However, I’ll need to find an angle grinder to do it.
Is it worth butchering these fins? Or should I just try to let it go and let the board be what it was designed to be?
get a second board
make one or buy one
not knowing who made the board
be they surfing scientist surfer
or a cambodian refugee
who cn’t swin or ever heard of surfing
it could be the best board yo ever owned.
you may not know any thing 'or everything
but leave it and learn to make it go …
if you cut it up you will never know.
make a new one and you will be on the road to
enlightenment as well as a diffrent life of creative independence…
…ambrose…
kookie was a parking attendent at 77 sunset strip.
a kuk is a surfer neophite…
oh yeah try lots of other fins
it will work dramaticly diffrent
with each one…
Pretty much answered your own questions.
There are at least a million other boards out there,all sizes and shapes and flavors. At least one of them is what you’re thinking of,
find it.
doc…
happy new year doc
year of the tiger
no snow here
cold at night 67 degrees…
…ambrose…
same page
new world
wow…
And to you, ambrose, not only the year of the tiger but the year of the water tiger, for what that’s worth and whatever it may imply.
Rather envious that your water isn’t frozen, here it’s like the poet wrote
But there’s fifteen feet of snow in the east
Colder than a welldigger’s ass
And it’s colder than a welldigger’s ass
on we go
doc…
Read the 2+1 thread.
Personally, I’d leave the board as a singlefin. I wouldn’t even screw around with a 2+1. The basic layout is aimed at using the rail line itself as your motor, not the fin(s). You’re going to milk the wave for it’s energy and go with the flow, not pump a fin cluster (or fins/keels at the rail) to get out in front of the wave.
If you want to do a twin then do a design that’s oriented about what a twin does.
Yep. Already tried 2+1. Didn’t work. Didn’t like it.
Ideally I’d have to make my own fins but that’s even more stuff to get hold of at this time.
From your pic it looks to me like you clustered the side fins too close to the leading edge of the main fin. More similar to what the hull guys were doing when they added little nubs in line with a flex fin. In that setup the sides are really small, like 2.1/2", not 4" like a standard longboad sidebite. Do you have a narrow base flex-fin for the main and 2 nubby side fins that small? 'Cause if you don’t then it’s no wonder you didn’t like the 2+1
Check out llillibel’s 2+1. THAT is what a typical 2+1 cluster looks like.