Farberow Flex Fiberglass Fin — Longboard

Josh Farberow's flex fin — True Ames' California Classic template refoiled to spring — a longboard single fin for performance surfing on a point.

Sold as a single fin for a standard longboard box, in 9.0", 9.5" and 10.0", in blue, kelp, smoke, clear or red, solid fiberglass with a flat matte finish. Farberow came to True Ames and asked for the California Classic outline foiled out until it flexed properly, and this is what came back: the same medium body and rake, thinner through the section, so the fin loads up and springs back rather than sitting stiff under the board. It has become a customer favourite since.

How that reads

Flex is stored energy. Through a bottom turn the fin bends and takes the load; coming out of it, that load comes back as drive off the tail. The medium body and the rake mean it still tracks — there is enough fin to hold a line while you are on the nose — but it never feels planted the way a stiff noserider fin does. Turns come out with more power and projection than the outline on its own would suggest.

Who it suits

Performance longboarding: surfing that goes to the nose and then back to the tail for a real turn, especially on the long right-hand points the fin was drawn for. Riders of the California Classic who want the same template with more life in it. Take the 10.0" for hold, the 9.0" for a looser tail.