Coffee with Britt Merrick talking "Twin Fins" & CI's new "Fishbeard" Surfboard
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Where to buy: The Surf Station: https://www.surfstationstore.com/products/channel-islands-fish-beards-surfboard Jack's Surfboards: https://jackssurfboards.com/collections/surfboards/products/channel-islands-fishbeard-shortboard-surfboard Surfboard Empire: (Australia) https://surfboardempire.com.au/collections/futures/products/amkglasstwinkeel-smoke In this episode Aarron and I drive north to meet up with Britt Merrick to talk about CI's new twin fin called the Fishbeard. After a quick surf Britt and grab a cup of Coffee and talk about the Al Merrick Keel fins and the Fishbeard. Stay tuned full Fishbeard review dropping soon!!!
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His Keelfin works because it is low aspect, high area sweped fin. Giving lots of stability because of long chord and strong rake, putting the point of generalforce way back on the template. If you combine this fin with finsetting moved back, of course you get a much more stable ride, which grips better than a fin further forward both on placement and point of generalforce. Some looseness also comes to play because of large cutout at base.It lets waterflow travel around finbase to disengage from foil, making this part of fin lose force and therefor easier to push out of hold.
The question above all is?
Why not try similar templates like windsurfers use, an upright medium base with strong curve backwards, heavy sweep, which gives a long chord from base leading edge to tip trailing edge. Creating a top twist that flexes the tip in a horizontal direction.
I'm living and surfing daily in Peru, mostly open faced waves that peel off more like a point break despite it being predominately submerged reef and beach break here in Lima. We get solid swells, regularly in the 5ft+ range during winter with a consistent 3ft during summer months. I want a versatile board to progress my turns on that can handle big open faced waves of my homebreak in the winter when the big swells turn up and that I can travel to steeper more critical waves with down the coast in the summer or when the swell isn't over 6ft. IV been looking at the quiver killer by lost, and after more research saw what a blast you were having on the NB2, this turned me onto the Fishbeard as I love a performance fish, and now I am stuck for which board to go for! Haha. Any tips or reccomendations would be greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work.
10. comment for Coffee with Britt Merrick talking "Twin Fins" & CI's new "Fishbeard" Surfboard
Carlos
Another board to consider for 1-3’ surf is the Ultra Joe. I would go Fishbeard but both are epic.
We occasionally do reviews on boards that aren’t from the bigger brands like The Shape Shifter by David Barr but his creation was really innovative. I hope this makes sense. Cheers
Will they make this board in a twin pin tail with channels? What variables will be available?
20. comment for Coffee with Britt Merrick talking "Twin Fins" & CI's new "Fishbeard" Surfboard
Another thing to think about... Britt’s like 6’4” and 200 pounds and swears by these Keel fins too.
30. comment for Coffee with Britt Merrick talking "Twin Fins" & CI's new "Fishbeard" Surfboard
Like your shirt.