I have just purchased a 33cm Makani weed fin for use with my 110l x65 Naish Grand Prix.
My question is do you have to change the way you sail? I feel that the fin is always on the verge of letting go. It seems ok down wind but as soon as I attempt to drive upwind it feels unstable and loose, almost as bad as carrying that pesky shoe string weed.
I've just started running a Makani 38cm weedy with a Fanatic Falcon 104l and reckon it's brilliant. Mainly run it with a 7.5 or 6.6 sail. It points like an upright fin, hangs on well and is easily recoverable from a spinout.
Previous setup was a select XXL on a Hypersonic and found this to be a horrible set up - the board would sail permanently skewed. Now admittedly, I changed both the board and the fin and I should really put the Makani fin on the hypersonic, and the select XXL fin on the falcon to get a true opinion of whether the Makani is soooo much better than the select
However, based on similar setups, I'd reckon you should be able to get a much better outcome that what you're currently describing.
Pretty much what Hardie said. Mast track back about 3cm from where you place it when sailing a pointer. Even up the foot pressure between front and back foot when heading upwind. Found that corrected my issues when I first started to use weedies.
33cm is pretty small for a 110.
What sail size are you using for that fin?
As an example, i use a 6.6 koncept with a 34cm flying objects in a futura 101 and it's solid as a rock in all conditions.
sboardcrazy said...
I've got 5 Makani weedies ranging from 18cm - 38cms and have found them great in boards ranging from 78 - 95 - 125 litres.
I like them so much that this season I haven't even bothered to use my freerides ( There is also some floating weed in the lake).Getting upwind is very important to me and thats why I chose them as the forums rated them great for upwind.
I'm only a lightweight 64kgs and I like the way the boards settle more although having said that the 38cms had it trying to rail when I was overpowered last sail!
The smaller fins are freemove - very triangular shape - I think kiters can use them. I have had a bit of trouble with the 18cm spinning out a little but that's on my 78ltre waveboard. I'm not really that used to that board and I have to make sure to sail it with hardly any rear foot pressure even with freeride fins.
The makania are much chunkier than select fins.The big ones look like weapons!
