Class | Specialty | Retro Single Fin
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[ Retro Single Fin ] DESCRIPTION The Single Fin was the original shortboard design. During the first decade of the shortboard revolution the vast majority of all designs were single fins. Exceptions would be single fins with small side bites, Fish with keel fins, and Twin Fins. Rockers, profiles, outlines, bottom contours, and rails varied by the design and the shaper, but they all had one fin. Applying contemporary design elements to this traditional design yields a bitchn specialty board with sublime single fin performance features. DESIGN FEATURES ROCKER Low Speed Box. PROFILE & FOIL Moderate foil with adequate volume. OUTLINE Round pin, squash, square, or swallow. BOTTOM CONTOURS Classic early single fin bottom featuring vee or tri plane entry to tri plane wide point to panel vee wide point to tail. Or classic contemporary shortboard bottom featuring vee entry to single concave wide point to single or double concave from wide point to tail. DECK & RAILS Flat or crowned deck. Moderately full rail with foiled rail profile for control for bigger surfers. Lower moderately thinner rail for smaller surfers.

	2018 Single Fin 6' 6" x 20" x 2 3/4"		1980 Single Fin 6' 4" x 19 1/4" x 2 7/8"

$800.00 See custom orders for details

	RETRO SINGLE FIN ROCKER, PROFILES & FOILS
	RETRO SINGLE FINS feature alternative deck rockers, profiles, and foils. Single fins of the 70s and 80s featured a beak nose profile and foil offering extra volume and a forward shift of volume. Current retro single fins may feature a typical shortboard profile and foil from wide point to nose and entry.
	MODERATE ENTRY rocker with relaxed speed box and low tail rocker. Smooth drawn out profile and foil with retro beak nose. More volume forward.
	MODERATE ENTRY rocker with relaxed speed box and low tail rocker. Smooth drawn out profile and foil with contemporary nose foil. Less volume forward.

	RETRO SINGLE FIN RAIL PROFILE & BOTTOM CONTOURS OPTIONS
	TRI PLANE entry and wide point to ROLLED PANEL VEE widepoint to tail for absolute minimum drag provides acceleration, projection, speed, and maneuverability. The tri plane entry and wide point to rolled panel vee widepoint to tail is the optimum convex bottom. Crowned deck transitions from rail to rail with ease. Convex bottom contours were common to most early shortboard designs prior to the introduction of flat decks. This is the original high performance single fin bottom.
	SINGLE to DOUBLE concaves provide acceleration, projection, speed, and maneuverability. The way water flows from the rail to the peak of the double concave at the stringer creates additional lift and with it's spine offers directional stability through turns. Crowned deck transitions from rail to rail with ease. Single and single to double concave bottom contours evolved into shortboard designs in the early 80s and became the primary bottom contour designs by the 90s and remains so to this day.
	TRI PLANE entry and wide point to ROLLED PANEL VEE widepoint to tail for absolute minimum drag provides acceleration, projection, speed, and maneuverability. The tri plane entry and wide point to rolled panel vee widepoint to tail is the optimum convex bottom. FLAT DECKS provide extra volume and stability. The flat deck down rail design feature was as common as the crowned deck design in 70s during the early stages of shortboard revolution and well into the late 80s. The deck and rail design remains relevant to this day in many classes of surfboards.
	TRI PLANE entry and wide point to subtle and very shallow SINGLE to DOUBLE CONCAVE widepoint to tail provides exceptional acceleration, projection, and speed. The spine of the double concave functions like a vee offering predictable directional stability. FLAT DECK provides extra volume and stability. The Flat deck down rail design feature was as common as the crowned deck design in 70s during the early stages of shortboard revolution and well into the late 80s. The deck and rail design remains relevant to this day in many classes of surfboards.

	SURFING A SINGLE FIN

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