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Gear Talk / Re: Fanatic Strike - Carbon vs BXF?
« on: March 22, 2020, 04:20:50 AM »
Hi there, apologies for going quiet, I did not receive any notification of the responses so I though my post hadn't generated any interest and went sup surfing instead. :-)

Thanks for all the replies. To give a little more context, I am 78kg, I am after a board to train in flat water or small/short period wind chop in a bay, upwind then downwind or the other way round. My current DW boards pitch a lot even with tiny ripples and the nose gets pushed left and right by the wind, making the upwind leg very unpleasant. I've demoed other boards more oriented towards flat water paddling, a 25" fanatic strike carbon, a 26" SIC RS and a 25" one edge 2.0. They are all great boards and do what I need them to do brilliantly, but I like the fanatic a little more as it seems a little more stable and also slices well through chop even when it gets bigger.

I could only test the carbon strike so I would not want to take the risk of buying a BXF version and finding out that it performs differently, not so well as the carbon did. I won't be racing the board so weight is not an issue (the difference is irrelevant anyway), but if rigidity affects the response to pitching in chop then it would make a difference to me. Price wise, I can buy either a used carbon or a new BXF.

Resistance to impacts is also important to me, so if either one or the other is less prone to dent or crack on paddle impacts it would steer my choice too.

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Gear Talk / Fanatic Strike - Carbon vs BXF?
« on: March 09, 2020, 12:10:04 AM »
I’m looking into getting a 25” fanatic strike, there is a large difference in price but less than a kg difference in weight between CCS carbon and BXF construction so I’m wondering what are the other downsides of the cheaper version as to me weight only would not justify the extra cost? Dos Anybody have any deeper insight on this over and above what the fanatic website says? The bxf seems to also have a carbon layer so I’m wondering if it’s that different?

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Gear Talk / Re: Best fin to surf a 14’ downwind board?
« on: March 10, 2019, 07:42:50 PM »
Thanks, incidentally the 10” fatboy is the fin I’ve bought in a rush to get back in the water after loosing my 9” fcs connect in the surf. Glad to hear that I’ve picked a good one.
With more time to choose now, I’m after a fin which will make the board turn sharper from the tail.

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Gear Talk / Best fin to surf a 14’ downwind board?
« on: March 10, 2019, 07:20:10 PM »
Hi, I am after suggestions and recommendations on fins to use on my blue planet bump rider 14’ x 27” for surfing 3 to 6 ft waves.

Also can anyone explain to a novice how the different parameters such as fin length, rake, width, and sweep affect the performance of the board?

Cheers

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Gear Talk / Re: Advice needed on quad fin setup for a 2018 Blackfish
« on: August 29, 2018, 08:00:12 PM »
Yep sure, I was just pointing out that the Stavron centre is also sold as part of a 4 fins kit so I would assume it could work fine with other side fins too.

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Gear Talk / Re: Advice needed on quad fin setup for a 2018 Blackfish
« on: August 29, 2018, 07:05:45 PM »
p.s. Disclaimer. Ignore that center fin, obviously, I'm not going to use these together ;)

I was just replying to this, where you seem to think that they cannot be used together because of the word “obviously “ and I was informing you that you can in fact use them all together in a 4 fin configuration.

By the way, that centre fin is not an LA, it’s a Stavron fin which is the stock infinity fin.

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Gear Talk / Re: Most surfable downwind board?
« on: August 29, 2018, 05:56:01 AM »
Well, I've found online a FCS II Connect 9" performance glass for a good price so took the plunge and ordered it. It arrived today and it seems to have a pretty snug fit once "clicked" in place. Now I can't wait for the wind to come to try them both!

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Gear Talk / Re: Advice needed on quad fin setup for a 2018 Blackfish
« on: August 28, 2018, 08:50:06 PM »
I can’t really say just by the photo, I use a spirit level to make sure that the board is horizontal and then that the fins are vertical. 2 degrees is not easily distinguishable by eye in my opinion.

By the way the side fins can be used with the centre too according to LA

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Gear Talk / Re: Advice needed on quad fin setup for a 2018 Blackfish
« on: August 28, 2018, 05:48:01 AM »
oceanAddict, the side fins on a LA 4 setup must be vertical.

Can you please let me know what angle are the white inserts, it's stamped inside the insert slot, I don't have these.

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Gear Talk / Re: Most surfable downwind board?
« on: August 27, 2018, 06:21:23 AM »
I would definitely buy a LA fin instead of FCS if I could, but they are not available here in Oz, so by the time I source one from the US and get it shipped here it will cost me 3 times the price of a FCS.

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Gear Talk / Re: Most surfable downwind board?
« on: August 27, 2018, 05:13:33 AM »
Cheers, both my Starboard and Infinity (Stavron) fins have a loose fit, the Naish one fits well but the box is not deep enough for the "bump" on the fin base. What can i gather from that?

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Gear Talk / Re: Most surfable downwind board?
« on: August 27, 2018, 04:53:06 AM »
Do FCS II "click-in" fins work with any standard SUP box?

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Gear Talk / Re: Most surfable downwind board?
« on: August 26, 2018, 01:55:30 AM »
OK, so today I've gone and bought a Bump Rider 27' on sale locally....... Thanks everyone for the advice.

The board came with no fin; any recommendations on a good downwind tool-less fin?

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Gear Talk / Re: Most surfable downwind board?
« on: August 25, 2018, 05:48:13 PM »
By the way, how about 17' boards? Would unlimiteds work on short period sub 25 knots swells?

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Gear Talk / Re: Most surfable downwind board?
« on: August 25, 2018, 05:46:08 PM »
If the rider timed and paddled less the nose would not go in and out of the water so much.  His approach was to stay pretty stationary in his surf stance and plow thru.  He could have turned more but it would require more finesse weighting an edge.  A small maneuverable fin does help with that.  Overall it looks like he had good fun and was going pretty fast.

I did try stepping back but even a few inches aft would stall the board and the bump was gone. It had to be kept trimmed with the nose in the bump in front, with great water spray scenic effects, so all I could do was to go straight. The only way to keep the nose out of the water was to ride at an angle, but then the board had a tendency to do unwanted "bottom turns". Hence my search for a surfy board.......

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