Got a nice 42 cm Select Ride to replace a 41 cm pointer on my GO.
What difference should I be getting? And wouldn't a weed fin perform the same?

If that 41 cm pointer is the stock fin its like a race fin isn't it? "Pointer" as you say...

The Select Ride will make the board a little easier to turn, loosey goosey, and smoother in swells and chop. But its still relatively straight.

Curvey always equals turney.

Straight and pointy always equals forward drive - easy planing in flat water, but you will have to make a wider arc when jibing.

Select rides are good fins, just kinda delicate on the trailing edge; watch out for the dock and use the fin cover.

A weed fin will get you the munchies something aweful, depending on what form of cannabis was used in its construction.

Other than that they usually feel like race fins.

-Windshark
www.windsurfquest.net

ow! thanks
Yes, it is nearly straight anyway. A wide board seems to lift the fin further out during a gybe, with my present style at least. So it seems to be doing something..
And it seemed better in rubbish wind and chaos water today.
I read references to it "keeping the nose lower" during a gybe.
whatever...
A more pressing problem just now is finding a way to keep sand from jambing up Chinook mast bases.
Frustration and joy in equal amounts...

Oldie vs Oldee????

Chameleon, thats me. Done by losing laptop and password, changing ISP and residence, and then making random efforts to get things straight again.
Nothing really changes, except maybe replacing sailboards with kites in the Olympic games.

OK, so why is a curved fin "turney" ?
I would have thought that extending a fin further behind the back foot would make it less 'turney".
Could it be that getting more area for less depth helps by producing less interference with the gybe?
In which case the curved fin is an anachronism and only retained due to surfing tradition..