Yater nose specializer restoration

General Discussion
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Hey just looking for photo of the fin from a late 60’s Yater nose specializer. Started the restoration but cant locate a picture of the original fin.

Thanks

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Was it a glass on or did it have a resin type box?

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glass on

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See if you can find the fin template for a Yater spoon same fin used on the Nosespec. I have a couple if you cant find it. Does the board have the logo stripe on the nose where it says nose specializer ?

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i think this is the one. kirk, am i correct? excluding the base the fin is 9.5" wide and 10" deep. if you need me to take a template for a reproduction let me know.

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Thanks Steiny!! Happy Hollow days to you and the family!

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Nice, with that picture I can get a great copy. Thanks for your help

Mike

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http://www.trueames.com/surf_select.php?surf_products_id=30&surf_categories_id=&surf_subcategories_id=

I’ve had a bunch of Yaters and a few Specializers to boot. This fin by True Ames it the ticket.

Anybody ever see an old Yater V-Bottom from the late 60’s? I’m getting one of them rehabbed and I was wondering if it should have the spoon fin or something more progressive? It had the original Yater spoon fin with the wonderbolt system. Now that the board is going to be rehabbed and the fin is going to be glassed in, what should it get? It is about 9 foot, deep late 60’s V, and a displacement hull. I don’t have any pictures. I can maybe get pic’s soon. It was in storage for a long time and I just sent it off to get fixed up this fall.

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Randy at Wavefront in Ventura has the best Yater V bottom Ive seen. Most had Waveset Greenough Stage 1, but later some had the Waveset box with the G&S HY 1 your longer 9ft must be an early one. post a pic for sure. I would get a Big Greenough from Truames if your going to glass it in.

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I honestly can’t remember how long this board is. My uncle was leaving it out in the elements and I snagged it from him and put it up in some rafters for 5 or more years. I’d visit it, but never took it down to check it out. So, I don’t know how big it is. I’ll see My uncle today and I’ll ask him. But the board had the same old fiber glass finbox that the older Yaters had. It wasn’t a wave set box.

I will post a pic if I can get one from the restoration guy. Hopefully in a day or so. I rode this board last when I was still in High school in the 80’s!

Thanks for the help!

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Randy at Wavefront in Ventura has the best Yater V bottom Ive seen. Most had Waveset Greenough Stage 1, but later some had the Waveset box with the G&S HY 1 your longer 9ft must be an early one. post a pic for sure. I would get a Big Greenough from Truames if your going to glass it in.