WOW - what a difference they make to performance. You can certainly feel the difference, and this was in reasonably small surf. Cant wait to try them in the bigger stuff.

To add to that
Piros has post on sup General - What's your local surf shop worth to you ?
Recon C-drive is in the same boat.
Hopefully this thread will give him a referred list of buyers of intent

I should have said, I'm in for a set when Troy gets the next batch....

i found c-drives better in some boards than others. for example i put a set of mediums in the JP 8'0 Surf Pro and it ripped. when i tried them in the JP 8'2 surf pro (same shape scaled up) they didn't inspire me and i went back to Arc mediums.

KarlLQ said..
I've got to agree on the board being key. On an 8'8" Speed the board felt stiff with medium tri set of c drives. On a home made 7'8" board it is fast and loose - that is as a quad though, which might make a big difference.

Same here, I found C-Drive too still for boards over 7'6".
You may want to use only C-Drives on the side fins and regular center (or quad rears) however, it works quite well.

Got the other 2 fins for the Quad set up. Tried it out this morning at Manly in some decent size surf. Awesome performance. Amazing speed. Had these on the Starby Airborn 8'8"

Bighugg said..
Smash1 ,are you running all C-drives as quads on your Starby ?

I sure am. Mind blowing performance. Has completely transformed the boards performance. I would have these on all of my SUPs (10!!!) if I could get hold of them.
Hard to believe I can get this level of speed out of the Board and turns on a dime.

Bighugg said..
Have you tried C-drive quads in your Runway Noserider yet ?
If so , did it hold well with you on the nose ?

Got a thruster set, chasing rear quads now ....

Not yet as I only have the FCS version....need to buy a Futures adaptor

Bighugg said..
Hi Smash1,
I am back hm for surftime and thought I would use GL as it was last surfed with quad. Was going to run L front, M rear in adapter.......
Not good....
The rear extra length won't allow them to drop in.....
Looking like they would end up with fair size cutaway wedge
Took awhile to get these so not prepared to chop.

yep, I had to sand a bit off mine to get them in, but not to much.

Thankyou guys.

How can I get hold of Troy to order some?

Business up the front - Party down the back.


Solid glass mediums and small carbon hexcores.

Love the cdrives in all my speeds also put em in my 9 ft mal and shes good.Get your orders in guys dont want these fins to dissappear.

Running C Drives on all of my boards (9). They are seriously the best fins available.
Need to get some crowd funding to get production started again

SoCalGremmy said..
How can we help him (and ourselves) out?

Speaking of the fin qualities will help.
Pre-ordering them could help, if Troy is OK.
Troy making Futures and FCSII version will help. But it cost money.
I guess talking more shapers/brands trying them so that they could propose them with new boards could help. I praised them with the Gong shaper, but he didn't like the way they behaved in turns, less smooth than the fins he is used to.

The issue is with fins with a high quality construction such as these is that once you have a quiver of them, you do not need to buy any more of them, making it hard to sustain a business unless you resort to marketing tricks: "new line for 2019! new signature fins! new colors! new shape for 2019 (with only a mm change)"...

Also not having any stock doesn't help people discovering them, and the huge marketing might of FCS do not help.

Troy told me I was the one who bought him the more fins in 2010+2011... but I haven't bought a C-Drive fin him ever since, I have a sufficient C-Drive quiver to cover all needs. I guess I will only buy C-Drives again if he make a FCS II line, or if he finds a way to make them faster (I dream of a C-Drive outline with a Quobba foil and material, in FCSII of course), and perhaps have more flex.