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Fish Theory: what quad set up?

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Created by mitchmcm > 9 months ago, 7 Jul 2016
DARTH
WA, 3028 posts
23 Aug 2016 8:19AM
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Looks unreal, love the fin set up!

mitchmcm
VIC, 57 posts
23 Aug 2016 10:52AM
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DARTH said..
Looks unreal, love the fin set up!


Cheers, its super quick set up like that. The board doesnt handle hollower sucky waves as i found out yesterday in some fun 3-4ft beachies haha

SP
10979 posts
23 Aug 2016 9:58AM
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Nice looking board

As another fin option try and get yourself a set of Split keel type fins. Seem to work good on wide tailed type fishy quads..

DARTH
WA, 3028 posts
23 Aug 2016 10:40AM
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SP said..
Nice looking board

As another fin option try and get yourself a set of Split keel type fins. Seem to work good on wide tailed type fishy quads..


Speed dialers I think they are called? Super popular in the USA.

mitchmcm
VIC, 57 posts
23 Aug 2016 12:58PM
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SP said..
Nice looking board

As another fin option try and get yourself a set of Split keel type fins. Seem to work good on wide tailed type fishy quads..


I was thinking that as well: like these www.surffcs.com/collections/quads

Have you ever tried tried anything like it? im interested to hear how they feel

SP
10979 posts
24 Aug 2016 1:08PM
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DARTH said..

SP said..
Nice looking board

As another fin option try and get yourself a set of Split keel type fins. Seem to work good on wide tailed type fishy quads..



Speed dialers I think they are called? Super popular in the USA.


Yeah, Kinda, Speed diallers were / are a board model made by Rich Pavel, they do have split keels and the name has kinda been carried on for the fins but the true "speed dialler" is a board and fin combo...



This may explain it better...





SP
10979 posts
24 Aug 2016 1:09PM
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mitchmcm said..


SP said..
Nice looking board

As another fin option try and get yourself a set of Split keel type fins. Seem to work good on wide tailed type fishy quads..




I was thinking that as well: like these www.surffcs.com/collections/quads

Have you ever tried tried anything like it? im interested to hear how they feel



For me they just seemed to make fish style boards with wide tails more controllable and smoother.
I'm no fin guru so someone may be able to explain it better but the main things i noticed were more control to put the board where you want , good down the line speed and keeping those fat tails from sliding or skipping out. They just seemed to smooth out the whole board and make it more user friendly.

I have a set of split keels from Soar and haven't used anything else since i got them.
Shapers also have a DVS keel set which are similar...
I think even Indo fins do a version of the old Future controllers.

But nothing wrong with the ones you posted ( Besides the price ), my mate has a set of them he uses in a lost puddle jumper and he rates them very highly.

Kami
1566 posts
24 Aug 2016 2:36PM
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Nice outline and your board look great for sure
Just mind that, Twin fin, Quad, double Keel or its modern versus like the split one need some direction transfer "rail to rail "to be ridden properly. So bottom shape have to be shape with some belly in front and Vee in the tail like the Steve Lis model or the Spoon has been done at first .
I wonder how that concave in the tail of your board can affect the total feeling of your board and how the rocker has been distribute to create that mono concave which is a modern type of rocker. This modern type of rocker is quite different of its ancestor coming from single fin rocker and volume distribution

Tux
VIC, 3829 posts
25 Aug 2016 8:04AM
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I find the split keels aren't as good as going vert as more traditional quad setups



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