late early sept.

scored some fun ones today.

august and the pig surfing pig surfboard pig surfboard fin

august has been great. spent some time in texas, shredded some waves. come ye fall.

late july and the pig surfboard pig surfing pig fin

super stoked on the session today. so fun!!

trapezoidal rocket fin test!!!

super hyped on the performance of this fin so far. it's fast and still allows for some radical cut backs. thank you Dave Town for making my bizarre ideas a reality!!!!

fun ones today!

trapezoidal Phin.

so, i've been playing with the fibonacci sequence designing all kinds of fins that master fin-smith david town has been building. we've built the Phi-n, the Flothru*, the leaningphin, and now we are developing this trapezoidalphin. if any of you read my surfers journal article regarding math and surfboard design, perhaps you find my dabbles here contradictory.  i get it... people love to use math as a marketing tool. so... why not play with it too! while i'm playing around with maths, i want anyone interested to know flat out, I AM NOT ASSOCIATING CAUSALITY. in other words, if one of these fins that has been designed using the fibonacci sequence feels good under your feet, then well...hey! thats great. i am of the belief that in surfboard design, a man made curve is just as valid as one generated by a formula... do we think dolphins and pelicans used math to figure out what shape they ought to be?

anyway... the more i looked at this new fin, the more i remembered my early days of model rocketry.

below are a few shots of this fin coming together:  the angle measurements aren't true, I had a very rough protractor, it was late and dark, plus there had been a few adult beverages consumed.

(* no fibonacci influence)