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Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby wavefin » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:19 am

Hi,
You can see one here. http://www.wavefin.com/

How would you comment on it unless you have tried one here it is a fantasy to become a reality.

But what type of wings would you like to see on the fins can you imagine a shape you would like to be made?
Let your mind explore the variations and experiment.

I have tried one years ago made in a cane farmers shed. The fin made out of aluminium.

Lets talk about it.

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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby jaffa1949 » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:14 pm

Holy tyre slashing Boadicea, this could get interesting. Keep us posted, holy hoppin Hydrofoils Batman, Attention Roy! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby Roy Stewart » Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:35 pm

The main issue with that setup is that the wings will prevent the board from rolling fron rail to rail, a secondary issue is that there are two unnecessary dragt inducing fin tips, the job could be accomplished with two rather than four.

If the fins are swapped so that the wings point inwards there will be some improvement.

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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby Roy Stewart » Mon Dec 19, 2011 8:39 pm

Another problem is that the wing area is much too far from the bottom of the board, it should be within three inches or so of the bottom of the board otherwise the handling problems will be drastically increased at speed.
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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby drowningbitbybit » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:05 pm

Are they like bicycle stabilisers for surfboards? :bang:
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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby wavefin » Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:56 am

Hi,

Here is one of my Old Surfboard. Resurrected from the land fill site.
http://wavefin.com/wavefin/surfboard-desgin/

Wait until you see the new one professionally hand shaped coming soon.

Turbo charged
Convex nose
Rail fins
Fix wing fins (The new board will have Adjustable Wing Twin Fins)
Venturi tubes ported from the nose

Thank you for your comments and information it is all very helpful

Thank you
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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby wavefin » Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:56 pm

Roy_Stewart wrote:The main issue with that setup is that the wings will prevent the board from rolling fron rail to rail, a secondary issue is that there are two unnecessary dragt inducing fin tips, the job could be accomplished with two rather than four.

If the fins are swapped so that the wings point inwards there will be some improvement.

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“All surfboard fins” create drag and friction.

Is that not what they say drag from fins.

It is this drag and friction that creates speed stability and maneuverability

Try to pump a finless surfboard nothing.

Pump a board with fins and you get speed.

These are speed fins it has 3 gears plus multiple combination settings and the ability to change wings.

When I first tested them they turned real well not only that it gave more hold than a regular twin fin may be more than a single totally resisting pin out in a turn real good for wide boards.

There may be a few features not visible to the eye twin fins are lose these a bit loser again combined with extra hold.

Just make sure your plugs are glassed in well.
http://www.harveysurf.com/surfboards/ri ... quad-fish/
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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby wavefin » Mon Dec 26, 2011 12:21 am

drowningbitbybit wrote:Are they like bicycle stabilisers for surfboards? :bang:


Yes they will give extra stability those wings are like running on rails.

It is nice to take off in powerful surf. I like it when the wave jacks up on take of.

These are high performance fins they require high performance equipment manufacturing of the fin box.
http://www.harveysurf.com/surfboards/ri ... quad-fish/
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Re: Original Adjustable Wing Twin Fin

Postby wavefin » Mon Dec 26, 2011 1:37 am

Roy_Stewart wrote:Another problem is that the wing area is much too far from the bottom of the board, it should be within three inches or so of the bottom of the board otherwise the handling problems will be drastically increased at speed.


On this particular strut the wing is just under 4 inches from the bottom of the Surfboard.

I will be making a 6 inch strut and a 3 inch strut as well.

I call the part the wing holds on to a strut as in time I will totally design all fin area out of this part it will be just an egg foiled shaped rod going down to the wing mount exactly as I made the first one.

This will be insanely loose.

Yet that wing will have incredible hold in and out of turns from rail to rail.
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