(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...
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.