Quad fins for sweet potato ?

@leroy, I don't have a sweet potato but a similar style board at 5'10" and I'm similar height & weight. I've just started using Shapers Quad-E in the L and have found them really good for me. If you can borrow/hire a set and try them out it may help.

Fitzy.

I have a baked potato Ive swapped around with quite a few fin combinations in it, my preference is the controller style fins from Indo fins in the rear, in combination with FCS GOODS-1 at the front, still lots of drive but also loose.

A lot of guys use the controller style front fins with the rear controller style fins, heaps of drive, but i found it a bit stiff.

BTW, your much better checking out the sweet or baked potato thread over in Firewire forum, heaps of info there on what fins works in the sweet/baked spud.

Speaking of these boards, i love and hate them, sometimes in certain waves ill have the time of my life and even some real good turns, while other times even when its small, im wishing i had more of a standard board, I also find it really messes with my surfing going from these kind of boards then back to a more standard kind of board really throws my surfing out.

http://www.indofins.com/index.php?option=com_aceshop&view=category&path=...

You can also buy them new on ebay, i had no probs dealing with them, took about a week to get here, there not as perfect finish as a factory finished fin, but I was still pretty impressed with the finish.

Nice link, thanks Indo.

Id just get the complete set of controllers, so you can mess around with different combinations, a lot of guys run the complete set of controllers and like them and it sure does fly with the bigger controller front fins in, but I just found it a bit stiff, I tried it with k,3 in front with controller copy rears, but IMO it was a bit to loose/slidey and lacked the drive of a bigger stiff fin.

Fins are such a personal thing though, what I found worked you may not, if you rode your friends sweet potato and liked the fin combination he was running why don't you ffind out what he was using and get the same?

Yeah id imagine the controller style fins would work real well in wally fast (but not hollow) down the line point break style waves, strangely enough i actually enjoyed my baked potato in head high waves, not hollow but at a poor mans mellow mini sunset kinda reef break.

I actually find quads in general tend to out run sections in short punchy waves or where i live a lot of our waves you are often doing multiple cut backs waiting for sections to wall up, i find in these kind of waves on quads i also often miss the best sections as im not surfing as much top to bottom as i would on a thruster.

The thing i find real hard though about quads is going back to ridding a thruster as they just feel so slow almost like im dragging a middle fin, ive actually gone to ridding a nubster on my quads which i think helps bridge that transition a little.