Bonzer Side Bite 2.37"

The Campbell Brothers’ Bonzer 5 runner template as a bolt-in side bite — 2.37" deep on a 4.75" base, with 19° of cant already built into the tabs.

Bonzer runners are normally glassed on at a steep angle, and this set reproduces that on a plug. True Ames cut the fins from the Campbell Bros B5 template and built 19° of cant into the tabs to match the angle of the glass-on version. Shallow depth, wide base, extreme cant: 2.37" deep, 4.75" of base, 7.60 sq in a side, in solid fiberglass.

How that reads

Base is where drive comes from and depth is where drag comes from, so a fin this long and this shallow pushes the board forward rather than pinning it on rail. The cant is the other half of it — laid over that far, the runners do their work when the board is on its side and stay out of the way when it is flat. It is a distinctly different feel from an upright side bite, which is the reason to try it.

Who it suits

2+1 experimentation more than anything else: mid-lengths, stubbies and gliders where you want the water organised along the rail rather than a second pair of turning fins. True Ames offer the template this way as a means of getting Bonzer behaviour out of a board that is not a Bonzer.

If this is not the one

Want more of the same? The Bonzer Side Bite 2.75" Fiberglass (FCS) is the larger version of this template. Running an actual Bonzer? The Bonzer Runners (4) - FCS Compatible (Solid Fiberglass) is the full four-fin set.