It’s a traditional looking fish 6’0"x16x21x16x2.5 double bump swallow . What kind of FCS quad fins should this board take?
I had PC-7s and GX-Qs on my Black Knight.
That's the HQ set, nice glass construction, single foil fronts and 80/20 rears. Lotsa base on rears gives a drivey, secure feel. I can get away with less fin on small days, but this is a reliable set. A good starting point for me on this board.
I concur with MD that the HQ (Hynson Quad) set is great for wide-tailed boards. I love them on small waves, too. I’m 200 lbs, though. Mike, would you mind divulging the fin-placement specs on that yellow coil?
Something to try if you have them is the G-CRV in front (the curved ones) and longboard sidebites in the rear (G-x I think).
I’ve used this setup in a 5’10 x 21 quad for years and it’s super-drivey but still really loose. I’ve tried all kinds of crazy combinations and have always come back to this one. Ridden it in knee-high to well overhead. The G-CRV fins have a wide base and a lot of area but the cant on them seems to give a lot of lift. It’s a really upright template too so it releases well.
Just throwing something different out there.
I’m not seeing any of these on the FCS site. There site is not set up very well. Very hard to find anything by looking at the fin profile.
For some reason, the HQ fins aren’t on the website. But they DO exist. Really. Call up FCS directly.
Mike is that what you put on all the hyperfoil fish?
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I concur with MD that the HQ (Hynson Quad) set is great for wide-tailed boards. I love them on small waves, too. I'm 200 lbs, though. Mike, would you mind divulging the fin-placement specs on that yellow coil?
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That's not yellow, it's..................
kevlar!
That 5'11'' is set up as a ''twinvertible'', I ride it as a twin when I feel like it, and quad sometimes. The fronts are at 10'' (for the quad fronts, the twins have 1/2'' more overhang which puts their trailing edge at 9 1/2'' when they're in there). The rears are at 5 3/4''. I rode quads a lot in the mid-80s, played with placement a lot. The ''close together'' setting rides like a very secure twinny, but they were no fun to sand back then as glass-ons.
For dedicated 4-fin fish, I do a little narrower tail and put the fins in a more normal position.
riderofwaves, that's just a personal set of fins I got from FCS when they first came out. I guess if they're not on the website yet, they're still pretty new. I have a catalog in my truck........ (run to truck)...... 4.76'' (121mm) depth and 4.65'' (118mm) base on fronts; 4.07'' (103mm) depth and 4.03'' (102mm) base on rears.
They also have new Rusty and McKee quad sets, don't know if those have made the website yet either.
…hello MD
very cool fiber work
your front fin config with the back ones
is more similar to a twinzer than a normal quad…
but with a shortboard, (so less tail area) after adjust the fins positions do you maintain the front ones backwards?
thanks
Hey reverb, no credit for me on the fiber, that's Eric Brasington's work. Thanks, though.
I've done some shortboards with the fronts moved back a little from ''normal'', but not all the way back to 10''. Some of those are 5-box options where the alternate set ups are quad or tri. One of them has been reviewed very favorably here.
The fish is twin or quad, so the front placement is aimed at being suitable for twinfin use. I'd done similar placement on wide-tailed boards in the 80s, so I knew it would work for me.
ekim, I should have mentioned that you should visit an FCS ''Test Drive Center''.
Here is the board. It came with composite M7 front fins
and composite G-X back fins.
Not the combo I would go for but what do you think? Can I keep the G-X’s in the back and get something else up front? Never owned a quad, let alone a fish. Throw me a bone guys. Thanks for the advice lawless.I might have to look for some used curved fins.
Are the Q-h2c’s the same as the HQ’s?
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I’d go with smaller front fins myself, the M-5 size or even the M-3 size.
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It came with composite M7 front fins
and composite G-X back fins.
Are the Q-h2c's the same as the HQ's?
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The set you have is a very reasonable starting point. If you haven't ridden a fish before, you don't want to start out with too little fin.
The HQ and H2c are completely different sets. The H2c is a quad set using the H2 side fins, medium fronts and small rears, in a cored construction.
m-3 for all 4, drives and turns well
m-7 q-1 , good down the line speed with tight turns
stretch set works in just about any board, goes rail to rail very well, smooth turns , does not slide to that easy
tc redline with q-1 , this set kind of looks like a keel . when you need to haul ass in fast beach break. good in punchy waves , not so good in flat faces.
h-2 , tried them one time . nothing special, they did not fit flush , got sea grass stuck in them and hummed .
this was tested in a round tail short board not a fish, so?
get to a fcs test drive center and have some fun with it .
Kia ora hi.How about some curved Quad’s from Pipe Fins.
5 fronts, 3 backs are good user friendly combo…if its not responsive enough, throw in KS2.1 fronts…all 5s give more drive and tighten things up a bit if its a bit slippy sometimes…or all 3s if ya wanna bit of slip and really easy to turn but tail might have too much area, they’re the combo’s I would play with, dont need that many different sets either to get a few possible good options going on, you’ll learn a bit by mixing and matching these ones too…
Wow this is old. I ended up using the fins it came with.This boards was super fast but tracked with this fin setup. I have a 15.5" round tail quad with the fins cluster moved closer together and it seems to do much better.
MR78s as fronts.
Whatever you like that allows you to bring it around in the rears. You’ll have no trouble shedding the MR78s at close to your purchase price if you dont like getting that crazy. (You may blow your plugs out, but you’ll know you want to keep them by that time, and you can just install some FCS-able plugs with a bigger footprint.)