Had a huge suprise when I had a parcel turn up and inside was a 21 45degree weedy that Decrepit made for me.
THANKS MATE totally unexpected and awsome of you. good bunch you Wa mob.
had some slotbox fins my boy found in a box in the back shed of the surf shop he works at, anyway they got donated to me they where all pretty average exept for this one carbon Torquay pointer so i chucked it in the trailor to donate to someone who had the skills to rebox it, never expected it back Mike thanks again.
really is a great gps comunity we have.
Hopefully try it out tommorrow in my xs missile.
some pics ( drool Keef )

Nice job Decrep'.

Nice turf farm Jimbob!

Let us know how it works. I have a few old Torquay pointers around as well that might be worth re-boxing if yours works well.

usual quality well done mate

nice fin jimbob but just wont cut the mustard compared to the real deal the 1st thing you notice is the weight 258grams ,
2nd the stiffness for such a light fin
3rd is the strait leading edge and consistent foil
4th how wide the fin is at the base per length
5th the con caved trailing edge gives the fin a more lively feel for surface area
and finally the Finnish is superb ,i hope that everyone that has one of these fins appreciates the craftsmanship, time and skill and effort that it takes to make
PS mike sorry for nick-in your last two barrel nuts
drool jimbob

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sailquik said...
Nice job Decrep'.

Nice turf farm Jimbob!

Let us know how it works. I have a few old Torquay pointers around as well that might be worth re-boxing if yours works well.

just re boxed an old 34 Torquay for rexy to a 22 , there not the greatest fin too rebox(carbon would be better), the base is too narrow and the tip is a bit flexi, had to route out 2 to 3ml add uni carbon and refoil, the fin is now much stiffer and should be great over 20nts , well i hope , i didn't get a chance to take it for a test run

OK Keef, I'll bite. What is that thing?

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sailquik said...
OK Keef, I'll bite. What is that thing?

bit turned to bite that was quick

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sailquik said...
OK Keef, I'll bite. What is that thing?

thats mine decrepits 26weedy personally hand crafted for me , with its own sheath
basically sailquick the fin is perfectly designed for the length and width for a weedy, well not unless your talking about my fins but there designed for shallow water (thats a different story)
edit you can see how beautifull this foil is and if you have a close look you can see the concave along the trailing edge

Decrepit... you'd the Man
nice gesture to a guy (Jimbob) who puts a lot back in the windsurfing community as well !!

People like you two (and a lot of others) make this sport a lot more fun !
Glad to know you both
and a lot of "others"

i'll take some pics and post em up if people want to see the fin Keef made me....????

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sick_em_rex said...
i'll take some pics and post em up if people want to see the fin Keef made me....????

sailquick would be interested in that one rexy he has a few of them

Jimbob, that fin looks real fine....maybe you could lend it to me for a while, and I will evaluate it on Tinaroo...
In other news, my foot is just about ready...not so sure about the wind.

JimBob, glad you like it, hope it goes well!
Looks like it fits in the box fine, I adjusted it to fit a newish Chinook box, doesn't always mean it's going to fit in anything else!

Keef, the little brother to your fin, (I made it at the same time I made yours) is now my PB fin, worked great in the weed at Lilacs, but it's possible a shorter more raked fin, like the ones you're making, would be better. Probably my next project, the weed there is coarser than Lake George and more abrasive and I think it slows you down a bit more

mike the wider based carbon weedies are the way to go, mudskipper from our team was running a 7.5 race sail with a 21 weedy in good size chop(33nts in the weed) , admittedly the board was a smaller old style pin tail , the fin works fine in chop as long as there is pressure, but off the wind they are a bit loose and can let go
ive just finished modifying an old slalom to a speed so maybe ill do a post on the procedure on both the board and the fin,

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Decrepit said...
the weed there is coarser than Lake George and more abrasive and I think it slows you down a bit more

So that is what stopped you getting 40

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keef said...
>>>> the 1st thing you notice is the weight 258grams ,
2nd the stiffness for such a light fin
3rd is the strait leading edge and consistent foil
4th how wide the fin is at the base per length
5th the con caved trailing edge gives the fin a more lively feel for surface area
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Thanks for the nice words Keef but you missed one, if Carl had been using a woody instead of a solid fin, he wouldn't have broken his board in half.

I have decreasing carbon layers down the fin, 3 to 5 layers at the base, only one at the tip, if you look at Carl's fin you'll see the damage is quite close to the tip. One of my woodies would have just sheared off at that point, allowing Carl to sail back home, change fins, and go back out. I know, I've done it twice.

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Decrepit said...
the weed there is coarser than Lake George and more abrasive and I think it slows you down a bit more

So that is what stopped you getting 40

More likely to be what slowed you down,

The 19cm 45deg fin felt fairly slippery in the weed, may be a 50deg would have been faster, will have to give it a try next time.

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keef said...
>>>> the 1st thing you notice is the weight 258grams ,
2nd the stiffness for such a light fin
3rd is the strait leading edge and consistent foil
4th how wide the fin is at the base per length
5th the con caved trailing edge gives the fin a more lively feel for surface area
>>>>>>

Thanks for the nice words Keef but you missed one, if Carl had been using a woody instead of a solid fin, he wouldn't have broken his board in half.

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after looking at the pic of carls fin and point of impact, if the rake was 45deg his board and fin would be still intact

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decrepit said...

yoyo said...

Decrepit said...
the weed there is coarser than Lake George and more abrasive and I think it slows you down a bit more

So that is what stopped you getting 40

More likely to be what slowed you down,

The 19cm 45deg fin felt fairly slippery in the weed, may be a 50deg would have been faster, will have to give it a try next time.

ive got a theory if the weed is growing go 45deg or less, it its in clumps 45 or more, the problem is if you go more rake you loose stability off the wind at high speed , I have a 17cm 47deg and that's about as far as I would go any more rake than 47 you have to go deeper and longer in the cord, then the board can be a bit unstable in jibeing

first run on the Decrepit weedy yesterday, a very happy jimbob,
conditions where out of my league and out off control with gusts going to 45 and water getting heaved into the air, only got 2 runs both in the 41's before my carbon boom exploded, fin was solid as, on both runs i was just surviving sheeting out and standing up crapping myself and had some wild pull ups at the end but fin didn't flinch once and I certinally wasn't kind to it being so erratic on the back foot, had more speed in it but i didn't have the balls to do it,
this will now be my go to fin in the xs missile next summer and hope to get to my new target of 44.
thanks heaps Mike for a fantastic job..

Fantastic JimBob, that's what I was hopping for.
But you never really know until you try it!