http://iheartfins.com Your online source for the best in surfboard fins Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:55:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim Orr *hearts* fins. He sent in a shot of some of the ones he has in his collection. Pretty nuts!: Tim shapes surfboards under his Pure Life Surfboards label in Hawaii. He's a fan of the bonzer style fin configuration/bottom contour. Here's a board he's shaped that he calls the Kona Green Machine. It's a looker!: Tim crafted ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=108 http://iheartfins.com/?p=107 (Photo from the Warbles Blog) RT, the great story teller behind the Warbles Blog, embarked on a neat project with Jeff Beck to make a custom 10" narrow based flex fin. Get the full scoop here. Also keep your eyes open on that page for a great post about a visit to ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=103   http://iheartfins.com/?p=100   The UDT fin is named for the Navy Underwater Demolition Teams. Historically, they and a number of military special operations units have used these fins to execute their waterborne/underwater missions. These fins have an insane amount of power. Two major factors contribute to this. The first is simply the amount of surface area ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=88 Sunday was Lokbox Demo Day in Oceanside CA. The Lokbox-Mobile was on hand:   August in So. Cal. and the heat was in full effect. The sun was piercing and the air was more humid than usual for this part of the world. Not looking too good surf-wise in the photo below but there were some fun waves to be had earlier ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=82 8" x 5" marine ply keel hand foiled by local fin builder Daniel Partch: This "slantback" template is his favorite keel fin design and is inspired by something that his fin making colleague/mentor Larry Gephardt came up with. According to Daniel: "You don't want too much base on your keel otherwise the ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=78 I had a layover on some travels recently and was struck by how insane the finage on this 747 aircraft was. That tail fin is like 10 feet thick at the base! According to Wikipedia, the 747 cruises at Mach .85. That's a lot of fin to push through the air ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=76 (photo from the Fish Brotherhood Blog) The Fish Brotherhood have a great interview with JJR, the man behind Lokbox, up on their Blog. The Brotherhood (Nuno and Alexandro) clearly put some time into designing their questions because there's some awesome insight to be gained on the fin system as well as ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=73 The Taylor Knox tri-fin set from Lokbox/Rainbow Fin Co. comes in both a 4.4" and a 4.6" fin (all three fins in a set are the same height). We haven't actually tried these out yet but the name alone conjures up images of powerful, raw-some cutbacks!: ... http://iheartfins.com/?p=70