LeopardSkin wrote: I hit a tree, blah blah
JonathanP wrote:Yikes, there sure is a lot of stuck woody debris...
I was riding a 24cm stubby fin on Wednesday. There was a very quick and loud crack. Feet stayed in the footstraps. I spun out a bit. No drama at all.
The first time I hit a tree many years ago, I was riding a 95 litre race board with a 6.0 7-batten 6-cam race sail. Fully powered, so I was going fast. Tuttle race fin 30-something cm. The fin hit the tree lengthwise like an axe splitting firewood.
I went over the handlebars and flew 20 feet. The fin was embedded into the end of the tree about 12 inches. It took a while to separate my gear from the tree. The fin was gouged. Tuttle box held strong. However the back of the board was bent. I waterstarted, and tried to hook in. But my spreader bar was snapped in half.