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REALLY shallow water sailing?

Created by Epi Epi  > 9 months ago, 12 Mar 2012
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Epi
Epi

Epi

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12 Mar 2012 10:32pm
Hi guys - First post...

(After a 20 year layoff, I've just restarted on a Fanatic Eagle 113L. I have pre-gybe ability but post-gybe hopes...)

I spend a lot of time wading through acres of knee deep water to get to sailing depth at the southern end of Pipe Clay (close to our Clifton shack - beats packing a car!). Not surprisingly, I've become curious - does anyone know of a good shallow water fin?

I've googled a couple of examples (eg. Sonntag, Maui Ultra) but, ugghh, ugly! Surely there must be something better somewhere! Or maybe it needs a multifin board, ie. with a tri or quad set of shallow delta fins?

Am I dreaming? Is knee deep even doable? Maybe not...but it just seems like such a waste of water...
houston
houston

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12 Mar 2012 10:42pm
Epi get onto Damo or Russ they should be able to help, I've seen some pretty short fins
geared4knots
geared4knots

TAS

2649 posts

13 Mar 2012 10:24am
Weed fins have the same area but are raked more so that might work in the shallows? Or is there a specific shallow water fin.
Generally the bigger the board and sail is the bigge/longer the fin has to be ,
small fin is no lift/upwind , hard to plane and prone to slip .
Sailing in the lagoon it is a good idea to be underfinned a bit anyway as the oysters really chop up fins quick.
Perhaps a weed style or a compromise between long and too short.
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