Cheyne Horan Starfin

szrbloke · Post by **szrbloke** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 1:36 pm

Hows it doing Gray??? Just to mention a few years I was at the British nationals at Fistral? and there was a pretty good kneelo out to the left of the contest site. I thought he was warming up for the main event. Turned out he was a South African bloke, nice guy, and rode a 3 finned board, 1 huge fin in a similar postion to one of PCs slabs, and 2 tiny fins in line with it near the rail. HE could make it move. Interesting board all up...sort of a modern throw back.

GRAYMAN · Post by **GRAYMAN** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 2:28 pm

Yeah it flies. I'mnot the greatest so I'd be interested to see this set-up in the hands of one of the top fellas.

Had to resin/screw a Lokbox/FCS convertor to the fin. The one pictured on the UK site actually came out on a duckdive on a shallow reef break! Didn't realize til I ws riding twinny on a thick lipped back breaker!!!

On the differing sizes thing, I'm looking at a Parkes 5 fin mush-fish at the mo with a boxed middle. I'd love to have a crack with that with abig middle and a couple of sets of sidebites or even kite-surf skegs.

G

mFox · Post by **mFox** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:01 pm

A nice fin to try is the "Sunny Garcia" FCS fin. The centre is the same size as the rail fins and they've heaps!! of area combined. Gives a lot of drive without tightening things up too much. I used to ride AM rail fins with a G5 or G7 centre, the "Sonny's" are way better.
I've tried the "Star Fin" with Cheyne (grew up n surfed together) many years ago and found that they tend too much towards the pivot and not drive long. They also did not start working until you got a bit of speed up. Foot boarders have the advantage of being able to pump straight away to get around this.

good luck

RMcKnee · Post by **RMcKnee** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:15 am

mFox · Post by **mFox** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:57 am

Ohhh Yeah!!!!

loonylen · Post by **loonylen** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:42 pm

He's still a wanker

RMcKnee · Post by **RMcKnee** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:54 am

mFox · Post by **mFox** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:34 am

Oh so true RM!! Hah!!! it sucked even more when it was your lady who was drooling on the beach for him

) It was not an easy thing for him when he moved over from Bronte, we were a bunch of ratbags to him

. Still........ talent is talent and he had bags of it. Still and all he did his own thing in his own way so hats off for that. It was unfortunate that he did the whacko move up north to doing the commune thing, almost "bent" him way out of shape. Glad he got his head back closer to earth.
Still..... he may be a wanker to some but, that probably applies to some of us too. Can't keep the masses happy all the time.

"FINCUT"
Re the fin purchase you'll probably find that he has some ratbag supposedly handling the business end of things and enjoying sitting on his hands (and your $$$$). Cheyne had a gift for trusting people you would not trust with your dogs water bowl.....
Still I'd give him a bit of stick to get him to kick. You may end up with a couple a extra fins to sell

RMcKnee · Post by **RMcKnee** » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:21 pm

TC · Post by TC » Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:26 am

During the 80’s I was a single fin holdout working at Heritage Surf and Sport on the east coast. I had the star fin setup on a standup board. Over all it worked very well, it held in large overhead surf, was fast down the line and had an outstanding pivot turn off the top but after I rode my first thruster I put my star fin board on the sale rack that afternoon and picked up a new thruster that day. The turning on the thruster felt effortless and it seemed as if the board was connected directly to my nervous system and the speed you could create on small surf was incredible. I still like single fins on longbaords but give me a multi fin set up on short boards any day, especially on a kneeboard (currently riding a 5’8” Freeline quad fish). Good luck though with your endeavored, experimentation is what makes this life interesting. Cheers TC

ted torrey · Post by **ted torrey** » Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:17 am

have you tried it yet?

GRAYMAN · Post by **GRAYMAN** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:01 pm

ted torrey wrote:have you tried it yet?

No!

I actually sold the Parkes it was going on. I am using a 3d foil though:

I thought it's be stiff but works a treat. Lots of drive and lift but not too much lift. You really notice it getting around sections. Just keeps on going!

G

womble · Post by **womble** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:11 pm

Greyman,

Nice looking board...very nice.
Give us some specs on it.......please.

Is that the new FCS system.....

GRAYMAN · Post by **GRAYMAN** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:21 pm

womble wrote: Give us some specs on it.......please.

Is that the new FCS system.....

That's Lokbox. The 3D Red Tip is an FCS fin though so I glassed and screwed it into a Lokbox convertor. (essential cause the convertors "clip on/off" design is weak and I already lost one of these fins). Obviously, that means the Red Tip is now a fully fledged permenant Lokbox now.

Side fins are about 5 3/4" depth x 4 1/2". That's a guess mind! Not sure about the FCS. I'll look it up in a bit but I have to help move a sofa!

The board is 6' x 23 1/4" x 2 5/8".

The deck's domed giving float and strength through the stringer whilst allowing finer rails.

As you can see it's a swallow with doub;e wings and lots of rocker. Bottom is concave into V.

I love it. Shaped by Bro Diplock who is an absolute freakin legend!

G

womble · Post by **womble** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 1:32 pm

Is that the new FCS system.....

My bad.

Thanks........

Next time you come out to OZ, bring it with you.....I don't mind looking after it for you...

I won't even charge a storage fee...

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