I tried this board as a twin, as a twinzer, and have modified it to where it is now. I’m really liking the board. The twin fins are actually smaller than they should be, so as a twin, it was a little less drivie (is that a word?) than I preferred, but I could throw it anywhere, even from a dead stop. It was a little drifty and sometimes wanted to turn flat instead of on a rail. I added little finlets to ride it as a twinzer and it firmed it up some and gave it more drive and ability to get it on a rail. However, I felt like I was missing that twin fin feel, so I did this thing, cutting off the finlets, taking out the trailing edge to run somewhat parallel to the leading edge of the twins with the same amount of cant installed in line with the twins. I gave 'em an 80/20 foil as well. The basic premise was to give the fins more base to promote drive. As for the gap, it just came to me, we’ll see if it works!
If you make a fin really big you can sacrifice drive for drag I find. But I really like the swept back look of your rears. Looking forward to hearing how it goes.
If you make a fin really big you can sacrifice drive for drag I find. But I really like the swept back look of your rears. Looking forward to hearing how it goes.
Thanks Deano, I’ll gladly trade looseness for drive (to a certain extent of course), just looking for a happy medium. I’ve ridden it as a twin, then as a sort of twinzer with the little fins out in front but parallel to the main fins, and lastly as a more traditional twinzer. It’s gone really well as each, but the 2nd configuration kinda “crabbed” on me a couple times coming off the bottom when trying to hit the lip, that got in my head even though overall it went good, so I moved the fins back so that the trailing edge was sitting about 3/8" behind the leading edge of the main twins. Much more dependable configuration, no quirkiness with the exception that it had a tendency to drift at times on cutbacks on facier waves. I’m hoping this will get me the drive and looseness I’m hoping for. If not, I’m going to bigger fins!