First of all, I am no expert and I have never shaped a board. I just love to look at board design and discuss what I have learned from people that are experts and hypothesize about design characteristics.
As I mentioned before the MR "Mega Twin" is a "twin fin" with a "trailer fin".
You can see that the side fins are glassed on, where as the center "trailer fin" is a FCS fin meaning that you can remove it all together and make it a true twin, or add a larger fin making it more thruster like. In layman's terms, less fins means less drag means more speed. This center fin makes this a pretty versatile board. If the waves are small you can remove the center fin and gain a little speed, not to mention fun throwing the tail out easier. Reversely, the larger the trailer fin the more drive and hold you have off the bottom on bigger stuff.
The tail design is a swallow tail with a stinger. The swallow tail aides in wave catching where the stinger (where the tail pulls in just aft of the twin fins) is for maneuverability. The pulled in tail makes it easier to turn but keeps the width there to provide volume to wave catching. Sounds like a wave catching machine that can still turn with ease, right?!? It is. I have only ridden the MR Mega Twin 3 times so far, and so far so good. This board is easy to paddle, fun and fast. Can't wait to really get this thing dialed in!
No comments:
Post a Comment