This skeg was spotted by Jeff out at Montauk a few days ago. It’s called the Turbo Tunnel Fin,
and there are surfers who say the thing does many wonderful things…helps
maintain speed through turns, improves nose riding, provides lots of drive and
so on.
So
of course I’m wondering what this design would do for a windsurfer.
And if I should plug one into my SUP
board (not that I’m remotely good enough to be able to evaluate SUP fin
performance.)
Back
when I started windsurfing there used to be some experimental or otherwise
unusual fins advertised in the back of windsurfing magazine. I remember a fin with small holes
running through the fin (to “channel water to prevent cavitation,”) a asymmetrical
fin that would change shape depending on the reach it was on, an aluminum fin
and so on. But this is the
freakiest thing I’ve seen since the football fin, but unlike the football fin,
it seems to have some fans.
(Top photo by Peconic Jeff. Bottom photo from the Turbo Tunnel web site.
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