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| 135597 | 4461 | Stoker V machine - Fowler or Anderson? | 71 | Bruce Fowler | Aug 14, 2018 | 2018-08-14T11:37:35-0400 | View attachment IMG_2614.jpg View attachment IMG_2617.jpg View attachment IMG_2620.jpg View attachment IMG_2552.jpg View attachment IMG_3784.jpg View attachment IMG_3238.jpg View attachment IMG_3815.jpg View attachment IMG_3835.jpg View attachment IMG_3817.jpg sk8thom said: Indeed glad you're here Bruce. Love my 9'2" V Bottom. Thoughts on wide base vs smaller base for a fin? Stage 6"? Thanks in advance. Click to expand... The GG6 has a ton of hold although with the deep vee, the consensus has been to run them with sidebiters. It reminds me of a tiller on a sailboat or the popular "D Fin" from the 60's with a big bite taken out of it. The loss of area at the base offers maneuverability but the 'grip' moves back to where the area is: in the top half of the fin. With the V8's, the Greenough Stage VI works well for guys wanting more power , but it's necessary to play with it in regards to where you place the fin. What would have been the base of a more usual fin, say, like the Greenough Stage IV-A. The "high aspect" of the GG4 is quite different in approach from the GG6..... the 4A has a LOT of base running around 7-1/2" which generates a lot of speed by creating lateral resistance and directional stability right along the bottom of the board..... in this case, in conjunction with the peak of the panel vee. The spine of the vee acts like a fin in itself..... something they discovered with the old "Hotcurl" boards before Tom Blake came up with a bonafide fin. Many of the early day fins on those ancient surfboards were more like rails screwed on, more like keels. The Greenough Stage 6 is somewhat keel-ish in its approach due to the long rake from base to trailing edge of fin but it has a higher center of gravity so to speak being that the base is non existant. How the area is placed is what generates its speed versus the wide, close to bottom of the board base of the GG4-A. The Greenough Stage IV-A, in my opinion, is the most copied or emulated single fin design in the world. The original inspiration was to look at fish and their fins, in this case, a swordfish, to see what he/she was running. George is part fish anyway, so it is no surprise he came up with something brilliant so close to home. |