Forgive me, fam, for I have wind. It's been 26 days since my last session. Shock and awe part 2. Got to try my new Maui Ultra Fins freestyle fin - Style 24 cm with my Severne 6.3 Freek on Severne Psycho 102. I'm shocked how well it worked. Just me and the foilers in light wind. The foilers and I had the same planing threshold. If I wasn't planing, they weren't either. Water temp at the The Road / Swim Beach 90+ F. You wanted to get out of the water. Lycra made the air temp feel like a cool 65 F.


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Straight Outta Flensburg! The Maui Ultra Fins - Style 24 cm, from Germany.



It has the area of roughly a 30 cm race fin but it's 24 cm. Here it is next to my 27 cm freewave from my RRD Freestyle wave board(2009) to show the shape difference.



The Style points like crazy and uses all its area because there's nothing to twist off. The freewave with its tip sticking out twists off under load like a downhauled sail.



It's light out here.



Planing by a kite-wing foiler.





The board jibes better with the Style 24 over the freewave. The power of the fin is more under your foot. The freewave also didn't give the board the right pitch on the water. It pulled the nose down. The Style lets the board fly. I thought a fin this small would spin out ripping into a turn with a 6.3 sail. Not at all. It rips!



The other test - loaded and ripping up wind in chop. The Maui Ultra Fins - Style 24cm doesn't spinout. The faster you go the more it grips.




Nature boy Rick Flair with his inflatable. He stuck a foil on that thing and launched from the Marina.



A ton of traffic out here. The price of gas not slowing these folks down. Playing Frogger in the traffic made a guy not want to fall in.



Sailboat. Not sure who it is.



Everybody functioning. Kite-wing foiler, Rick on wind-foil, and sailboat.



Fin provides enough power to pop the board off the water in these light winds - amazing. 'till next time.




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Fun, fun, fun.
Does anyone go out on weekdays ?

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