Maris and Pete sailed Walkers Rocks last weekend to a 20 to 30 knots SE seabreeze on the West Coast of South Australia. Maris is using one of our 2010 Twin fin 90 and I am on a 2010 Twin Fin 95, which these photo highlight the snappy tight turning power of our twin fins.
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After a month of very little wind and swell , the Gods finally delivered great sailing conditions on Saturday at Wreck Beach Port Lincoln South Australia. All Photo’s are from Shane Smith [Fredo] <fastfredo@bigpond.com> If anybody wants to contact him for a photo shoot we highly recommend him. Oregon sure took her sweet time geting the season going. After our big west coast trip, 900 miles of coastline in 2 weeks, we were stoked to come home and kill it at our own breaks. May was lackluster and things didn’t heat up until June. But once it was firing, it got good quick. I quickly remembered how much my OES Twin Fin 78 shines. I’ve been sailing the board for two years now and my sailing just keeps progressing in leaps and bounds. I’ve been trying to time my off the lips for years, but with a single fin I just couldn’t get there when I wanted to. With the TF 78, that is no longer an issue….. I owe all these hits from Oregon 2009, to my board and Pete Ross. Hope these shots keep you warm through winter!! Here is a video from Cape Sebastian on the Oregon Coast. The Cape is located on the Southern Oregon Coast right next to Pistol River. Jake and I had a great trip trying out a bunch of new spots along the Coast. This was the only day that we sailed the Cape, and it was a fun one. The conditions were very challenging, with some difficult to read waves and extremely overpowering wind. We were both on 4.2’s and should have been on 3.5’s. The locals said that this wind was typical, but the waves often get a lot better. I would love to try it on a big day with the proper size sail. The potential of this place is unreal! Russ Here’s a video from last July on the Oregon Coast. It is the second of three Summer videos created by Snakebite Productions of our trip. The first was the Pistol River video, and can be found on the video page at http://www.oesaustralia.com/videos/. The third should be out soon. Russ Faurot
Just wanted to let you know that I have completed the Oregon Gorge test for the 2010 XWave 75 litre board. I wanted to ride the board for the season in the Gorge before I reported! I can honestly say that I have never riden a better all around board since I began sailing 25 years ago. All production boards, and I mean the few I have tried, can not stack up to qualiity, durability, and overall sailability of this board! I weigh 185lbs and was able to sail a 5.2 down to a 3.2 with this board with no issues whatsoever. As I told you before, the balance and weigh distribution is perfect. Early planing, quickness, and a loseness is what I look for in the performance areas and it excells. As far as durability(something that took the entire season of total abuse and use) the board is still as solid as the day I got it. It has assured me that I will continue riding OES boards. Why would anyone buy a production board when they can own one of these Custom boards for the same price is beyond me. You have outdone yourself with the 2010’s! Thanks for still doing it right! Will talk to you soon..Skip Maui rider, Diego, scores some evening waves on a nice sized North Swell. He is riding his 69L Twin Fin OES. “The board rips,” said Diego.
After time spent testing on Maui, we had a chance to ride the Quad Fin 75 in a good sized swell. Our big wave expectations were confirmed. The board rips with superior holding power in large choppy waves, without being penalized from excess fin drag. “We wanted to make sure that this design would not be over-finned.” Our Twin Fins have performed well, so we wanted to try a Quad with a similar amount of fin area. The desire to add control in choppy conditions, without losing the surf-style of the Twin, is where the quad design came about. We felt there was room for a wave board that was not as loose as a Twin Fin. The Quad offers amazing holding power, but still offers great top to bottom turning. The Quad has evolved out of the design experience from the Twin Fin. The Twin Fin design offered a radical surf-style with greater holding power compared to the Single Fin. The fins are closer to the rail allowing them to engage harder into the wave face. We felt we could enhance this ability, by adding two small finely foiled fins in front of our standard twin fin setup.
Through our development and testing, we discovered small front fins are the optimal choice in quad design. We feel that the majority of Quad Fin boards available to the market right now are over-finned. Our Twin Fin designs are working great, so we didn’t want to add much more in fin area and drag. We have kept a thin foil large rear set, and matched it with a small thin foil front set. This combination added more drive and control, allowing sharper more vertical turns. It also added wave-riding confidence on choppy large wave faces, without the fear of the fins letting go.
The Quad’s holding power offers a great balance between front foot and back foot wave sailing. This gives a wide range of sailing styles more confidence to attack the wave face. Our Quad design will help you reach your goals in wave-sailing quicker.
Here is a sequence of me that I came across on Francky’s website (http://www.mauiwatershoot.com/WELCOME.html). He captured my Pushloop while Cyrus rode the wave. I remember it was a good clean jump that I landed. I’m still on the injured list, but expect to get back in the water by early next week. See ya on the water. Russ Update from SA- sailed Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Got some shots from Sunday, which was mast hi middleton. Saturday was epic- cleaner and more offshore- had best ever sail at middleton on TF90 , hit huge aerial reos, was 30kts xoff and logo high sets – got one aerial reo that just boosted- would’ve been near mast high- biggest I’ve ever hit but didn’t have camera out!!? Landed perfectly too??!! Stoked
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