New Fin Carnage

[rca]

For your viewing pleasure (or horror), pictures of my new fin setup on my Doomswell Bigstep. I got some new fins this winter and was trying them out yesterday. About my third run I had tossed the rope into the boat and was enjoying some surfing when, unbeknownst to me and my driver the rope must have been hanging slightly overboard, got pulled into the water, somewhat caught on the swim deck and came up right under me as I was making a cut. It must have somehow wrapped around or through on set of the fins because the board basically did a 180, threw me and the popped up out of the water into the air. WTF?!?!?!!

I swam back over to the board and flipped it over to reveal the carnage below. All three fins on one side of the board are toast. The other side looks brand new, because they are. When my wife pulled around I realized the rope was back in the water and what probably happened. Crazy day.

http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g348/nsdhusband/47f86c7b-1ac1-478b-9dd3-575b848a0dd4_zpszlvql2hm.jpg

http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g348/nsdhusband/2a20117f-6fab-457e-aac5-954f58512be8_zps99qqsyql.jpg

http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g348/nsdhusband/556a29f0-5fcb-4526-b682-b84182c2ed70_zpsfxekkfw1.jpg

http://i1097.photobucket.com/albums/g348/nsdhusband/4a6e1bea-e023-4d07-8a35-f7316e79ea49_zpsywwafonm.jpg

[mikenehrkorn]

Ouch...with all the fin damage was the rope toast as well?

[wakemitch]

Wow. That's scary. You are so lucky it didnt get wrapped around your ankle.

Those fins are really strong too

Heads up, the boards are designed to be ridden as either a Quad (Main fins and trailers) or a Twinzer (Main fins and the small canard fins). Six fins is a lot

[rca]

Rope was fine.

I got the fins thinking I would ride it as a twinzer. I just threw the other two in to see how it affected the feel of the ride.

[mmandley]

Dang well lucky for you Doomswell is local to your area.

I always keep the original white fins in-case my high end ones get broke.

Glad you are ok though, board and fins are always fixable.