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[Stingreye]

Jealous. Don't cut anybody off, Haole.

"Haole to you too".... "He's so Haole he doesn't even know he's Haole."

Have a great Trip Ruger! I have only surfed Hawaii a couple times, the clear water and seeing the reef while dropping in freaked me out compared to mostly sand bar breaks I had surfed before.

[NICKYPOO]

^^^Nice one. I haven't seen that movie in forever. There was a lot legendary surfers in it.

[Ruger761]

haha

Finished it up. Seems pretty solid for how simply its mounted. Hard to know if angle downward will be enough or not but it does go down further than the TAPs plate does. One way to find out. Popped a little tack weld on the end so of the turn buckle threads so it cant back out all the way. Time to paint and get the water to warm up a bit so I can try it out.

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[Dave S]

I saw some trim tabs in the new Overtons Catalog. Check them out. I tried posting a pic of the page from my phone but having trouble.

[UNSTUCK]

I was surprised at how far down the TAP 3 plates go down. Almost vertical. I'm making mine to go just as far down. The feedback that I've gotten is that most people put the 3's all the way down while surfing and then adjust the TAPS 1 (?) trim tab to adjust the wave to the surfers liking. Hopefully that works on our older boats too.

[Ruger761]

Yes extra bent part at the end makes the TAPs 3 really is almost vertical from what I can tell. Supra goes vertical with theirs. GoSurfAssist angles look like the taps 3 except for their discharge plate funnels the water outwards. But for the simple mount I did on this one I was afraid to go too far down as it might just rip it off with too much pressure against it. Course if it doesn't seem to put too much against it I can always get a longer turn buckle and drop it down more. Or I can add a discharge angle plate to it to mimic the TAPs3 more than what it currently does. If this works roughly like I think it would that's when I'd buy one (Bennett or Lenco), mount it solid, and modify the plate for a more surf plate vs trim tab plate. Would have to change their ram angles some too. This should give me an idea to see it would work on a flatter hull vs the convex hulls without drilling any holes and hating it. Plus I like to tinker

[Ruger761]

Should be real interesting to see how the water from the spray pockets does when it hits it.

[Ruger761]

We had a very fun trip. Was hard to come back.

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My balance was horrible on the board for some reason. But did get in a lot of good runs. Wore my arms out paddling back out though. Now Im ready for it to warm up just a bit here so I can hit the lake. Guess that means I better get the boat de-winterized and cleaned