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...
Epi get onto Damo or Russ they should be able to help, I've seen some pretty short fins
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.
