--- In usa_prodigy@yahoogroups.com, "joethewindsurfer"
<joethewindsurfer@...> wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any good experience with weed fins on the
Prodigy?
> Mine have been pretty bad. I can't remember if it was a 44 or 46
cm
> Orca weed fin I tried, but it definately didn't plane as early
(even
> though the area was similar). The other problem was that the
center of
> resistence moved back so that I had to put my back foot behind the
back
> footstrap when on a full plane. By the way, that is a power box,
isn't
> it?
>

Joe,

I have a big 56 GSport Someweed that works nicely .. but here is the
catch .. the base of it goes forward over the centerboard slot by
like 3 inches. So there is no putting the centerboard down when I'm
using that fin. What I want to do is get a standard centerboard and
cut that down enough to work with that weed fin. :-)

GSports has fins in Weed, Someweed and Sortaweed styles each with
less rake. I've use the Sortaweed model around here on Lake Erie
where we have just a light weed problem and they work great. I think
all the larger weed fins GSports sells will interfere with the
Prodigy centerboard. Here is an image of a GSports weed fin. You
can see alot of the base is forward of the slot which avoids some of
the problems you mentioned.

http://www.amoka.com/images/fins/sortadtt56b.jpg

Scott