I paid about 50% of retail and they are listed as immaculate so hopefully if I don't like them I can sell them on and get my money back anyway.
I paid about 50% of retail and they are listed as immaculate so hopefully if I don't like them I can sell them on and get my money back anyway.
I usually hang onto fins that don't work in one board in the hope they'll work in another...sometimes though it never happens. I bought a set of Sunny Garcias tried them in a few different boards and never worked for me, gave up and sold them.
Jesus is coming, look busy!
Moving forward or just spinning faster?
5'8 RF Vanguard 32.2L FCS H3 quad
6'0 FST Dominator 34.8L FCS PC SF4 quad + stabiliser
6'0 FST Spitfire 34.9L FCS PC R2 quad + stabiliser
6'2 FST Jacknife 33.3L FCS PC quad front/rear TC Redlines/TC Aqualines
6'2 FST Hellfire 33.7L FCS PC R2 quad + stabiliser (x 2, yes 1 here, 1 there!)
6'4 FST Alternator 34.?L FCS PG7
6'7 FST Hellrazor 36.5L FCS R2 thruster
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6'5 FST Hellrazor 33.5L FCS coming
Yeah I think something like the SP is the only board I'd use them in. I like the most neutral fins possible in my shortboards.
I have the same feeling about the Sunny's but haven't sold them off.
The centre fin is in a FCS single fin box adaptor and I can't get it out so there it stays.
49 yrs, 6'1", 92kgs. Surfing many moons grasshopper and I like plenty of foam. Potatonator 6'4" FST- Stretch or DVS quad fins, CI twin + trailer fin.
Pete, I should have taken your advice on the Indo Fins for only a few £ difference but was a bit worried about getting stung with an £8 customs handling fee + 20% VAT and then ending up an expensive set of fins...
Sunny Garcias are about the only FCS fin I havent tried. Still looking for that immaculate set on ebay for less than retail....one day. PRJ make your own mind about them..I know you will but I know about half a dozen guys that love them....I just didnt. If they werent popular FCS wouldnt have made the latest carbon kevlar version of them...so someone must love them.Originally Posted by Slowman
Yeah I've got mates who liked them in short boards in smaller conditions. We'll see!
I used to have the LB1s (gasp, Layne Beachely Oooh, eerrrr, girly fins) which were PC versions of the H2's.
Great fins in thrusters.
49 yrs, 6'1", 92kgs. Surfing many moons grasshopper and I like plenty of foam. Potatonator 6'4" FST- Stretch or DVS quad fins, CI twin + trailer fin.
Yeah, I truly hated those fins. It was those fins that had me firmly in the camp that said all the expensive fins were a marketing con. I've definitely resiled from that, but while I can say when I don't like a fin I honestly find it hard to differentiate between performance characteristics of fins I do like.
Interesting. I keep trying fins until I come up with the perfect set for that board then I never change them (or rarely change them). I can tell the difference a good fin makes versus a fin that isnt working for that board. I give it a few goes but rarely does that first impression change. See I couldn't believe people actually liked H2's. I had a very open mind about them but just couldn't get them to work for me. I even bought a new set after I sold my first set because I thought I must have missed something that everyone else was getting. Second set left me just as disappointed as the first. I will say however the h3's work particularly well for a round tail quad I have so I like them. But they didn't work in an eps/epoxy, parabolic railed 6 channel quad I had made for me...horses for courses.
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