my five fin

[waikikikichan]

Today I rode my 5'3" Carl Schaper " Mutt" since my longboard wouldn't fit in my friends car. Figured since it had five fin plugs, might as well use them all.

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[oldenglish]

Hmmm those knub fins are supposed to be facing that way? Crazy different. How does it go? Lots of fins but they seem pretty small.

[Big H]

So how was it? What size and shape waves did you have it in? How did it ride/paddle? Did the tail slide out on bottom turns backside/both? Would you ride it that way again?

[waikikikichan]

I put in back wards just to fool around. They're flexy plastic anyways. I first used this exact setup when i was on my XTR Schaper longboard at this tiny beach break. Work well then , so i thought to try it on the small board. Waves where shoulder to head high beach break. Fast down the line. A bit of slip until i adjusted my foot back, then i good bang of the top. The fins are in the actual FCS line up. But i think you need to look in the SUP section. It's called the River Keel tri-fin set. ( most surfers don't know about them, so keep it a secret )

[oldmansurfer]

LOL that's great. I have thought about doing 5 fins on my boards but I haven't even run my favorite board with a thruster set yet. I need to spend more time surfing

[Big H]

That secret set is under 25 bucks a for three on Amazon. Put it in my cart for the next time I go to the states. . I currently use sidebites like this on my longboard, but really stiff not flexible so it sounds like a fun and cheap experiment.