As you know, I have been using the Slot Fin with Mini Wing on every ski I've owned for years now. This includes the Goode 9400, D-3 X5, Monza, and my current Goode 9800. I've been so happy with the performance with the 9800 with the Slot Fin that I have been reluctant to make any changes to it. After having a SPEED Slot Fin in my closet for 3 months I finally bolted it on today. All I can say is FANTASTIC!! Ran right up the rope from 28 to deep 38 Off. Actually made up ground after being late a couple of times. I never would have thought there would be that much difference between the regular Slot Fin and the SPEED Slot Fin, but I could immediately feel the difference in the first pass. Thanks again for a great product. The craftsmanship is excellent and the performance spectacular......ED JOHNSON Dec 14, 2007
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INTRODUCING OUR NEW "SPEED SLOTFIN"
Our new "SPEED SLOTFIN" is designed to provide far less drag than any other fin/wing combination on the market by eliminating the attachment plates on each side of the wing. I started with our time proven, record setting SLOTFIN and MINI WING which have been slowly evolving for well over 20 years. Since I always recommend our Mini Wing with this fin set at 9 degrees with the fin set at 7.116 - 2.5605 and 7.865 DFT, the SPEED SLOTFIN was the obvious next step. After over a year of testing, we're now putting it on the market. The "SPEED SLOTFIN" comes with the "Mini Wing" permanently attached at 9 degrees. There is no adjustability of the wing. Removing the side plates reduces parasitic drag from the wing by 100%.. More speed means less effort while skiing and the ability to recover from mistakes you normally could not. $129.99 delivered in the USA! / $144.99 outside the USA.
"SPEED PRECISION FIN"
We have begun production on the SPEED PRECISION FIN. It is the standard round shaped fin found on the GOODE as well as many other production skis. It comes with the same size wing as the GOODE, permanently mounted at 9 degrees, wing down or in the lower position. This configuration eliminates roughly 300/1000ths x 375/1000ths of pure parasitic drag and destabilizing factors. $129.99 delivered in the USA! / $144.99 outside the USA.
"PRECISION DEPTH GAUGE"
We developed this gauge to measure the fin depth on our SPEED PRECISION FINS because the wing is not removable. What we found is that we can use this on any ski with an adjustable wing. Now you can measure your fin depth without touching your wing! Talk about saving time! Talk about leaving a fin and wing alone that's working awesome. It's a totally accurate and non-invasive measuring tool that you will want in your tool box! $39.95 with free shipping!
YOU MUST HAVE ONE OF THESE GAUGES WHEN YOU PURCHASE A SPEED PRECISION FIN. BUY BOTH FOR $162.99
There is some concern about not being able to adjust the wing. Increasing wing angle has the same effect as adding tip and decreasing wing angle does the opposite. When you adjust your fin, the wing moves in the exact same direction as that which you are hoping to accomplish. Actually, you will need to raise or lower the front or rear of your fin approximately 200/1000ths to change the wing angle by 1 degree so it's really not a factor. By decreasing drag, you increase the efficiency and speed of your ski. This means less effort for the same result or the same effort equates to an earlier path. Increased speed means you can survive more mistakes. The future has arrived and it's time to hop on board!
WHY A SPEED FIN?
Speed fins have a fixed wing which eliminates the upright plates that hold the wing on. These plates can be 300/1000ths thick. Since all they do is hold the wing on, we fixed the wing at 9 degrees. Doing so eliminated all of the parasitic drag from the wings. All that's left is pure function and performance. The Speed Fin is noticeably faster. So much so that you will need to add about 12/1000ths tip leaving your depth and distance from tail the same. Doing this will put more ski in the water, more edge in the water. More edge in the water equals better edging which equals more efficiency! Thus more edge in the water while accelerating and more edge in the water whilst decelerating. A marriage made in water-ski heaven! Supply limited!
SPEEDFIN THEORY
I have been making fins since the late 1970's. I have been thinking about the Speed Fins for quite a while but technology and a reliable machine shop held me back. We started testing these fins in the winter of 2006 so we had a year under our belts by the time they were introduced. At first, we tested the Speed SlotFin because of the wing location, which is behind the deepest point on the fin, thus allowing the use of a caliper when measuring depth. I could not figure out how to measure fin depth without removing the wing on a standard fin until I met Les Bender, a tool and die maker who was in my office one day buying a ski. I showed him the Speed Fin concept and explained the problem with not being able to measure fin depth without removing the wing. He immediately said, "No problem" and went on to describe the Speed Gauge. His insight helped bring forth the standard shape, Speed Fins.
The theory behind the Speed Fin is this; I have been around the world setting up skis. I have set up thousands of skis and worked with thousands of skiers. A common denominator I find is setting up the fin and wing to exact factory specs (in the case of all Goode Skis and my SlotFins). Doing this takes all the guess work out of fin setup and allows the skier to move on to the next phase of tuning, moving the bindings to the places where the ski works best. This being said, a Goode is setup to 6.872 - 2.449 and .690 with the wing down (blades below the screws) at 9 degrees and my SlotFin at 7.116 - 2.5605 and 7.865 tip to tail with the Mini Wing down at 9 degrees. I rarely adjust the wing on a standard (Goode) fin and never on the SlotFin. I reasoned that if I never adjusted the wing, I did not need the drag that comes from the attachment plates. On a standard wing, the attachment plates can run 300/1000ths of an inch in thickness. This 300/1000ths was only needed to attach the wings but since I didn't need to adjust them, these attachment plates represented nothing but pure DRAG. I asked my machinist (and skier) Dennis Chambon if he could make some fins with non adjustable, built in wings, for testing. Dennis gladly obliged and we started testing. Dennis kept refining these fins until we introduced them in the spring of 2007.
As for adjusting wing angle, consider this; adding wing angle does the same thing as adding tip or increasing the length of the fin and decreasing wing angle does the same as decreasing tip. They both work together so if a skier is concerned about the wing angle, they can just add or decrease tip. Since the Speed Fins are faster, we have found the need to run about 10/1000ths more tip to make up for the elimination of the wedge effect. Wedge effect?What is “wedge effect” you ask?Years ago someone came out with a “wedge wing”which rather being a thin wing, it looked like mini doorstop attached to each side of the fin which was about 3/8” thick at the rear on each side, 3/4” total for both sides.The result of this was the lower wedge would push the tail of the ski up in the turns, making the tail blow out.By pushing up the tail, it was also driving in the tip.If you look at all of the manufacturers wings on the market, you’ll see a wedge about 150/1000ths thick on the front of every one.This wedge not only creates drag, it also lifts the tail and drives in the tip.By removing this wedge, we were able to allow the tip to ride higher and tail to ride deeper.The only problem was that the ski was so fast; we could not keep the rope tight in the turns.To do this we needed to add about 10/1000ths tip.This practice uses the edges of the ski, not the drag of the attachment plates on the wing to achieve turning speed.
We currently build our SlotFin - Mini Wing and an exact copy of the Goode standard fin with their size wing set at 9 degrees with the Speed Fin designation. We are working on copies of the other manufacturer’s exact fin and wing shapes and will be introducing them as they become available.Retail price for any of the Speed Fins is $129.99, the Speed Gauge is $39.95 or you can buy both for $162.99
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SPEED PRECISIONFIN - ZERO PARASITIC DRAG! $129.99 delivered in the USA! / $144.99 outside the USA.
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SPEEDFIN DEPTH GAUGE. $39.95 with free shipping!
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FIN DEPTH WITHOUT WING REMOVAL!
ULTRA PRECISION FIN CLAMP
SCHNITZ FIN CLAMP
Modeled after the Goode 2 piece fin clamp (fin box). This unit is machined on every face including where it clamps to the fin creating a straight, secure fit. I can set a fin up from scratch to exact tolerances over all 3 dimensions with these clamps in 10 minutes or less while the clamps with screw adjusters usually take me 30 minutes to an hour or more. A bolt on upgrade for any Goode or HO. New holes needed for other skis. Order yours today! $84.99 with FREE shipping!
STANDARD FIN ASSEMBLY
Features the brand new, ULTRA PRECISION FIN CLAMP (as shown above) with our PRECISION FIN and a HO or GOODE style WING. Individually purchased value is over $170.00 Yours today for$149.99 with FREE shipping!
SLOT FIN - ULTRA PRECISION CLAMP - MINI WING ASSEMBLY
SLOTFIN ASSEMBLY
Features the ULTRA PRECISION FIN CLAMP, the awesome SLOT FIN and the time tested and proven MINI, MIDI, MAXI, HO or GOODE WING. Individually purchased value over $170.00 Yours today for$149.99 with FREE shipping!
ULTRA PRECISION STANDARD FIN
The ULTRA PRECISION STANDARD FIN is a copy of the GOODE STANDARD FIN but comes in a .086 (86 thousandths) thickness which is about 10/1000ths thinner than the GOODE. Additionally, the radius from one side of the fin to the other is centered. Yours for$69.99 with FREE shipping!
Set this fin at 6.994 (with the caliper tips) 6.872 with one of my calibrated calipers 2.449 Deep .703 From the Tail
Wing down below the screws at 9 Degrees to start. Add or decrease wing angle, and/or move binding(s) before deviating from these numbers. Adding wing angle is like adding tip. Moving bindings forward is like adding tip.
THE SLOT FIN
An awesome fin for Goodes, D3's, H.O.s, O'Briens, and Connellys. 12 years of research and development have gone into making this the most aggressive, stable, high speed, quick turning fin on Earth. Revolutionary Power Slot allows you to run this fin really deep (up to 2.584) for stability, width, acceleration and deceleration. Recommended for skiers of all levels. $69.99 with free shipping!
SLOT FIN SET-UP (warm water)
LENGTH 7.116 = 6.542 w/tips (to the cutout where the fin goes up into the ski about 3/4" forward of the tail) DEPTH 2.5605 FWD-BK 7.932 (1/16" forward of tail)
Wing down below the screws at 9 Degrees to start (file the screw ends flush). Add or decrease wing angle, and/or move binding(s) before deviating from these numbers. Adding wing angle is like adding tip. Moving bindings forward is like adding tip.
For cold water, I recently skied Denver after skiing the hot Florida water. I moved my fin back 25/1000ths to get somewhere close to the same performance.
MINI WING
A thin profile, low drag, high efficiency, stainless steel wing that works great with the SLOT FIN as well as all others. Less drag equals a faster ski. A faster ski allows you to recover faster and more often. A smaller, more hydrodynamic wing than anything else on the market. $34.99 with free shipping!
MIDI WING
A thin profile, low drag, high efficiency, stainless steel wing that works great with the SLOT FIN as well as all others. Less drag equals a faster ski. A faster ski allows you to recover faster and more often. A smaller, more hydrodynamic wing than anything else on the market. $34.99 with free shipping!
MAXI WING
A thin profile, low drag, high efficiency, stainless steel wing that works great with the SLOT FIN as well as all others. Less drag equals a faster ski. A faster ski allows you to recover faster and more often. A smaller, more hydrodynamic wing than anything else on the market. $34.99 with free shipping!
HO-D3 STYLE WING
A thin profile, low drag, high efficiency, stainless steel wing that works great with any fin. Less drag equals a faster ski. A faster ski allows you to recover faster and more often. A thinner, more hydrodynamic wing than anything else on the market. $34.99 with free shipping!
GOODE STYLE WING
A thin profile, low drag, high efficiency, stainless steel wing that works great with any fin. Less drag equals a faster ski. A faster ski allows you to recover faster and more often. A thinner, more hydrodynamic wing than anything else on the market. $34.99 with free shipping!
LOOK AT THE SPACE BETWEEN THE STRAIGHT EDGE AND THE BACK OF THE FIN
A GOODE ANGLE GAUGE SHOULD SLIDE INTO THIS GAP TO GET TO THE APPROXIMATE DISTANCE FROM TAIL. TO GET IT EXACT, USE MY CALIBRATED CALIPERS.
SLOT FIN SET-UP FOR ANY SKI; (warm water)
Set this fin at 7.116 = 6.542 with the caliper tips (to the cutout where the fin goes up into the ski about 3/4" forward of the tail) LENGTH 7.116 DEPTH 2.5605 FWD-BK 7.932 (with a block caliper) 7.865 with my calibrated caliper (1/16" forward of tail) Wing down below the screws at 9 degrees to start (file the screw ends flush).
Move binding(s) before deviating from these numbers. Moving bindings forward is like adding tip.
Last summer I skied Denver after skiing the hot Florida water. On my I first set there, I was two passes down in performance.For the second set, I moved my fin back 25/1000ths and regained a pass and a half in really rough conditions.While skiing in Georgia on a shallow, muddy lake, my first set again was a disaster.For the second set, I moved my fin back 52/1000ths and again skied much, much better.
While skiing in Kentucky on a muddy lake, I moved the fin back 30/1000ths and again had better results. If you have two variables such as cold water and muddy, double the movement. For three variables, triple it. Get a TDS meter and a thermometer and keep track of your skiing results along with the TDS and Temp. When skiing at other facilities check the TDS, Temp and Depth and hypothecate what new settings you think will work. Try your first set at your normal numbers and your second set at the hypothetical numbers and let me know the results!
STANDARD FIN SET-UP FOR GOODE'S; Set this fin at 6.994 (with the caliper tips) 6.872 with one of my calibrated calipers.
LENGTH 6.872 (6.994 with the tips) DEPTH 2.449 DISTANCE FROM TAIL .703 From the Tail (8.153 with my calibrated calipers) or 8.248 with my block caliper.
Wing down below the screws at 9 Degrees to start. Add or decrease wing angle, and/or move binding(s) before deviating from these numbers. Adding wing angle is like adding tip. Moving bindings forward is like adding tip.
