The prototype fins have landed in Melbourne for some final testing. 3 designs, the elliptical downwind slalom/ gps, the course slalom and freerace. We just need to decide the layup for the downwind slalom and have 3 options, the other 2 are finalised. Hopefully we will be in a place to do a small run really soon. Super looking forward to getting them on the water and will let you know the first impressions when I do..stop being so windy Melbourne!!!! Ha!
Dont get concerned about the head finish on some of them we were messing around with different mineral fillers in the PU.
Lovely looking love fins ..
will there be a short weed fin coming also ?
and will it be available in deep tuttle ,for all the foil box boards around now ?
Thanks Tardy....I have a 50 degree short wide weed fin...the Nuclear Weed....I just have.t got it up on the website yet.
Looking forward to them (specially curious about the freerace), I still love my master blaster 32 for when conditions are crazy.
When can we expect to be able to order? ;)
I just have to sort out cover graphics then the Freerace and Course slalom will be ready to order. then I just need to get a build slot and finalise pricing...pretty soon I think. The freerace will be around $280-290 I am hoping. The Downwind Slalom we still need to decide on layup.
Tardy...here is the Nuclear weed...I will try to get it on my website in the next couple of days....its been really windy so work is playing second fiddle to sailing!!!
really NICE 
...no hurry... all will decide if we get to travel or not ...
enjoy the wind, it is more important to go sailing 
than stand around talking about it
I tried the 3 downwind slalom 36 fins today. I have ruled out one of them, felt the tip was too soft so need to do more tesing on the other 2, almost the same layup but one is slightly stiffer. I liked them all just felt the one with the softer tip was not as solid as the other 2.
Fun testing them and feeling the subtle differences....they are good fins!
I will be ordering a very small production run tomorrow...so if you are thinking about a new Slalom fin I am happy for anybody to contact me for details....I will have until Friday to add anything specific to this first run.
Thanks Martin
The first seabreeze for Melbourne yesterday and I got to give the new Carbon Freerace a proper workout in messy, wavey Port Phillip Bay.
I must admit that before I started this carbon fin development program I had only once used a carbon fin, an early protoype of another brand that I was told was a reject as it was lots too stiff. I really liked it but felt is was not much different to G10, clearly as it was a reject for being too stiff. So I was a bit sceptical about all the claims of carbon fins and flex.
This development program has been a massive learning curve and eye opener and I now really understand how the flex you can acheive with the carbon construction completely changes the way the board feels and travels over the water.
I had many days last season in exactly the same conditions as yesterday but the difference was I had my G10 fins in the board. I love them, they are great fins but yesterday the difference really struck me. I had a 38 freerace carbon in and in short...it was brilliant. Most of the testing I had done was in winter Northerlies and the sea conditions are quite different or on the flat, this was really the first workout in the notorious northern end of the Bay swell and big steep chop. What struck me the most was the board was much smoother, it really was up out of the water and skipping over the top and the chop was a lot less troublesome. Yes I still had the really steep one appear in front of me and hit it pretty hard or got airborne but the whole session was less physical than with a G10 fin. Also when I did bear aways the nose stayed higher so I was way more confident to put the hammer down and not scared about tripping on the back of the waves. As normal I forgot the GPS but I can guarantee I was faster as I felt more at ease to push hard.
I would honestly say that this Freerace carbon at such a low price point is a clear winner and unless you need a G10 slalom fin due to a rocky or reefy venue and unavoidable fin damage you would be crazy not to consider one of these freerace carbons.
