We’d like to welcome Californian ripper Arnout Ter Schure to the team and let you know a bit about him.

Loving this, great stuff Al..

We had a think about how we could improve the humble US fin bolt, both in terms of performance and cost, and this is what we came up with..

The screws are A4 stainless steal, the plates are a brass insert moulded into tough Nylon. They are HALF the weight of the existing ones, which may not sound a lot but is a 20g saving in a quad. Add this to a set of K4 quad fins and there’s a saving of 0.15kg over a standard g10 set up -not insubstantial for the fins alone!
Strength wise these are more than sufficient. A vice/lump hammer test showed the first failure was to shear the lugs off the back of the fin(!). Eventually with a good swing of the hammer the plate shattered destroying the brass insert along with it, but this was at a far greater load than you’d want to subject your board too even if you were hitting rocks.

I think we have a winner with these, and will be supplying them FOC with our fins from now on.

Great to hear from our young Italian ripper Riccardo Marca.

“Nice trip to Sardinia, on the little island of Sant’antioco. Strong wind, flat water and friends is the perfect mix! I learned a lot of new moves. In June I’ll go there again for 3 months!”

photos @salvatore selis

Check out this magnificent movie filmed and edited by Kevin Pritchard of our own Graham Ezzy ripping the bags out of the North Shore Maui. Sickness! Great work guys.

Check out the k4fins video channel on vimeo
https://vimeo.com/channels/k4fins

To say we’re chuffed with this would be an understatement..

Great little vid from Bubble.

RIP Mikey

As I’m sure many of you already know, talented windsurfer and one of the hardest rippers on our team, Mikey Clancy, tragically passed away last week aged 22.

We wish to share the link below -a tribute from Mikeys father Michael, and hope that it may prompt others to seek help when facing similar choices.

We miss you Mikey

MIKEY CLANCY FAMILY STATEMENT.

Check out this epic review of our Bubble Freestyle fin in this weeks Boardseeker mag..

www.boardseekermag.com

K4fins rider Lewis Merrony and the South Wales crew have just scored an epic day in deepest Welsh territory (down a lot of slow roads!), check the report here..
http://welshwaves.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/good-as-it-gets.html

EPIC!

If you’re wondering where the K4 asymmetrics are, well they’re just around the corner, not long now. In the meantime here’s a more simple guide to measuring your boards boxes ‘toe angle’ with this quick table…

Difference in span between the ends of your front boxes in ‘mm’ and the angle of toe your boxes have (taking a 10cm box length)

DIFF 0, TOE 0
DIFF 1.75, TOE 0.5
DIFF 3.5, TOE 1.0
DIFF 5.25, TOE 1.5
DIFF 7.5, TOE 2.0

I’ll put this up along with more tuning tips in the ‘tuning guide’ when the fins are ready.