Current Fins on the market

rswabsin · Joined: 14 May 2000 Posts: 444 Location: New Jersey

Some general comments about your fins: The fins you have should work fine with your larger sails (5.5 and above). Fins also require a little care to keep them in good sailing shape. If your fins have rough edges along the leading edge and tip from hitting rocks, grinding into sandy lake bottoms, or just moving you gear around on the sand and gravel shoreline - you need to gently sand those rough edges out to restore the smooth finish. Very easy to do and can greatly improve performance. You'd be surprised how much drag a dinged up fin can have and how it will prevent you from getting the board to plain early.

cgoudie1 · Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2019 10:56 am Post subject:

There is a windsurfing stage everybody goes through where they believe
they can buy their way to better performance. and you can, but you
can't buy your way to a better skill set. I remember thinking (some 30 years ago) if I could only afford this or that ...board/sail/fin... I'd be able
to ....go fast...plane early...Jibe...

The thing is, to actually be able to use the performance, you need the skill
set first to ....go fast...plane early...Jibe...

I'm not saying you can't improve your gear and notice, but you might be
better served to just spend every windy day on the water, and maybe
vacation someplace where it blows often and consistently.

I'm a big fan of "good" fins and some fins really make a board, but spending
a large amount of money on a new fin at your stage might not be that productive.

.02

-Craig

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

cgoudie1 · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2019 5:22 pm Post subject:

Right! I should have said "buy your way to better skills with equipment,"
although purchasing performance equipment at the beginner stage could
actually hurt your skill set rather than help it.

That's why I mentioned vacationing in a place with consistent and
frequent wind.

-Craig

westender · Joined: 02 Aug 2007 Posts: 1288 Location: Portland / Gorge

I like some of the stuff from this place.
http://www.vectorfins.com/fin/rockit

ss59 · Joined: 10 Nov 2016 Posts: 104

I had a quick go on a Viper 91 with a 5.7 not a lot of wind - ridiculously easy to sail, planed remarkably early and went quite well - wish I could have learnt on something like that.

Honestly, if you want to improve you should sell the 4.5 MauiSails Global, the 4.7 Chinook PowerGlide, 7.5 MauiSails Scream and definitely the 9.0 AeroTech FreeSpeed - sell the fins apart from what came with the board and spend the money on a course with a good instructor - I absolutely promise you, you will get where you want to go so much, much, much, much, much quicker.

after that, you will actually know what kit you need.

grantmac017 · Joined: 04 Aug 2016 Posts: 946

When I lived in an area of very light winds (which it seems the OP does) nothing got me more quality time on the water than a cheap old raceboard.
It might not be sexy and it definitely won't turn but it absolutely beats the heck out of slogging a gigantic plank of a beginner board around in 8kts.

isobars · Joined: 12 Dec 1999 Posts: 20935

U2U2U2 · Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:08 pm Post subject:

I order from the UK and others in Europe.

Some even have paypal, none are any thing other than a USA company.

K4 are a great alternative to G10, some come in super stiff.

I have near all variations , includes some that aren’t even on the K 4 site.

NOVAAN · Joined: 28 Sep 1994 Posts: 1551

Pretty much any fin that does not spin out heading to wind is a good enough fin for now. I have had high buck fins that where just ok and really good fins that came with the board. In your case spending money on a fin isn't going to
"wake Up" your board. Consider a good used freeride board for you next investment...