What size are you using now? If pat still has the tectonics you could try them but they are probably a little small. Get the C3 B64 , just dont lose it to a sandbar.

Wanna loan me that board so I can have a crack at the Formula speed record [}:)]

Woo - MK7 is goin formula!!!!! Yeha!

For my formula I have never ridden anything smaller than a 64 fin n that I use with reluctance (lose upwind ability, lose lift and only for low tide shallow water).

nah mate, to unfit to pump around a course these days.

will be for sailing as fst as possible....

i currently use a 70cm carbon fin. the stock fin... i am very happy with it but was looking for something for higher winds. 15+

so i can handle the chop a bit better.

i'm was more thinking a 65cm echo

or an R13

well i didn't put the bloody sandbars or beach there now did i.......

yes, and that fin broke for the 4th time at wello,

so pete made me a new one finished in woodgrain. i think he is trying to tell me something.

tom i'm most likely off to shearwater. early for some big stuff.

vici is no godd with the 70cm fin....

hi matthew,

agree with what you are saying but i think to have a go at the formula speed title the board should comply with formula. and so the fin would need to comply as well. my feeling is use the smallest fin allowed.

on the gps site the fastest spped for formula was done with a 7.6m sail....then the next fastest. 0.04 knots slower was done with an 11m sail with both on 70cm fins.

hi MK,

the board is 95cm,

it shouldn't be compared to the normal formula bottom shapes though, the cutouts in the tail are very severe. plus it's got the channel....

it handles chop really well. far better than the flat bottom versions. The problem is when the fin is creating too much lift. once i can't load up the fin anymore i start losing control of the board and then the rig and then it is curtains.

with the bigger fins you need have to keep you back leg straight, as soon as you take the pressure off the fin it is a bucking bronco. that is the thrill that i get out of formula.

i know that i have to keep driving the fin but my pants are going brown, it is on the edge sailing.....

hi mathew,

if the water is dead flat it would be interesting to sail the tug in over 30 knots. if it meant breaking a record or something.

i guess a small fin would be required.

on the other end of the spectrum, has anyone had a go on the g sport extreme lightwind.

the makers claim planing in 4-5 knots and being able to point as high as a raceboard. sounds nice.