TunaFintm Design Evolution:
---- Changes over the past few months of very intensive testing include an adoption of fiberglass rods as the best choice for ligament or tiller construction due to the breaking of multiple carbon fiber tubes. Fiberglass has proven to be the strongest and most flexible material to insure a high degree of resilience and performance.
---- The fittings that attach the fin to the ligament device have been up-scaled to better transfer the action of deflecting the ligament to the reaction of turning the angle of attack of the center fin. This serves also to strengthen the fastening of the parts together, and gives the fin a more solid base of contact. the fin consequently has improved drive at little or no cost in weight and performance.
---- A ridge has been added to the surfboard deck at the underside of the ligament and foot pad assembly to better transfer the rear foot's turning force into lateral force. This simply makes the pressure plate ligament more effective.
---- Rainbow Fin Co. in La Selva Beach, California is working with us on fin foils to optimize the addition of new varaibles in the TunaFin's dynamic design. We are working on a limited number of fins to release under the following names and optimization profiles:
- TheYellowFin is conceived to be a longer fin with more rake and will be best suited for large fast waves and expert watermen.
- TheBlueFin is designed to be an all around fin that will be most like any other fin in size and shape and will perform best in all conditions for the average to expert surfer.
- TheBigEye is specifically made to best suit the bigger and more powerful surfer (the big guy). It will be a slightly larger fin designed to be paired with slightly smaller rail fins to optimize the powerful gouges of the heavier footed expert surfer.
- TheLittleTunny is for the grom. These are the small, light weight kids who squirt around with a flick of their boards. As such, they will need a fin designed to respond to a lighter touch, so this configuration will also incorporate a smaller gauge ligament or tiller.
---- And finally we are working on an improved design of the foot pad, so that more of the rider's foot actively engages the ligament and better transfers the action to reaction response.
---- Changes over the past few months of very intensive testing include an adoption of fiberglass rods as the best choice for ligament or tiller construction due to the breaking of multiple carbon fiber tubes. Fiberglass has proven to be the strongest and most flexible material to insure a high degree of resilience and performance.
---- The fittings that attach the fin to the ligament device have been up-scaled to better transfer the action of deflecting the ligament to the reaction of turning the angle of attack of the center fin. This serves also to strengthen the fastening of the parts together, and gives the fin a more solid base of contact. the fin consequently has improved drive at little or no cost in weight and performance.
---- A ridge has been added to the surfboard deck at the underside of the ligament and foot pad assembly to better transfer the rear foot's turning force into lateral force. This simply makes the pressure plate ligament more effective.
---- Rainbow Fin Co. in La Selva Beach, California is working with us on fin foils to optimize the addition of new varaibles in the TunaFin's dynamic design. We are working on a limited number of fins to release under the following names and optimization profiles:
- TheYellowFin is conceived to be a longer fin with more rake and will be best suited for large fast waves and expert watermen.
- TheBlueFin is designed to be an all around fin that will be most like any other fin in size and shape and will perform best in all conditions for the average to expert surfer.
- TheBigEye is specifically made to best suit the bigger and more powerful surfer (the big guy). It will be a slightly larger fin designed to be paired with slightly smaller rail fins to optimize the powerful gouges of the heavier footed expert surfer.
- TheLittleTunny is for the grom. These are the small, light weight kids who squirt around with a flick of their boards. As such, they will need a fin designed to respond to a lighter touch, so this configuration will also incorporate a smaller gauge ligament or tiller.
---- And finally we are working on an improved design of the foot pad, so that more of the rider's foot actively engages the ligament and better transfers the action to reaction response.