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★★★★★5.0 (8)
In Stock
$89.75
new customer discount · applied automatically at checkout
Fin SystemSingle / Longboard Box
Color — clear
Designer: Charlie Smith and Tom Parrish
The Fin
The Parrish Single is a classic ‘70s era single fin! It’s named after Tom Parrish, legendary shaper known for his rounded-pin, big wave, and semi-gun style single fins that surfers like Shaun Tomson, Margo Oberg, Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew and Charlie Smith were putting to the test along the North Shore of Hawaii at waves like Pipeline, Sunset, and Haleiwa. Parrish began his shaping career at Surfline Hawaii and Country Surfboards before transitioning to Lightning Bolt, where he had the opportunity to work with and forge a friendship with Gerry Lopez. Eventually Tom went on to establish his own label, aptly named Parrish Hawaiian Designs - wherein there are equally sought after boards he shapes still to this day.
While made to fit in a box these days, the Parrish Single Fin is the exact template that you would have seen glassed onto single-fin pintails in their heyday. Its original design and intention remains: a wide base and solid surface area, together with minimal flex, will hold the tail when you really need it.
Drop into the wave of your life, grab rail, hold the line, get tubed…Keep the dream alive!
- Stiff fin with a wide base and nice curves sloping to a narrower tip
- Originally designed to pair with classic 70's style single pins
- Solid fiberglass construction, gloss finish
Specifications
ConstructionSolid Fiberglass
Sizes7.5
Colors1 option
Price Range$89.75
AvailabilityIn Stock
From True Ames
The template runs upright with a full base and plenty of area, which is the recipe for hold and drive rather than loose, skatey turns — built to plant the tail and push the board forward, the way a '70s single-fin pin was meant to feel.
Our take
Put the Parrish Single on a single-fin mid-length, log, or pin when you want classic drive and planted hold in steeper or more powerful surf — it pivots cleanly but it is a drive-and-hold fin, not a tail-swinging carver. For a looser, trim-first feel on a fuller egg or glider, the Skip Frye single gives up hold for flow.
More About This Fin
The Parrish Single is a solid-fiberglass single fin made by True Ames and named for shaper Tom Parrish, drawn from the 1970s Lightning Bolt rounded-pin and semi-gun single fins Parrish shaped on the North Shore for riders including Shaun Tomson, Margo Oberg, and Rabbit Bartholomew. The template is upright with a full base and large area. It comes in one size, 7.5", and works in a single-fin box or as a 2+1 center on single-fin logs, mid-lengths, and pins.
Similar Fins
Mentioned in the review — Smith / Parrish Full Base · Skip Frye — not something we carry.