DHUSOUTH said..

DHUPEDNORTH1 said..

bobajob said..
Not sure what you mean. So the two links above don't cover your needs? Oh wait, do you mean the centre fin to a futures adaptor? If so no, but I haven't looked that deep into it. Maybe your only option here is to go with FCS adaptors all round and ditch your futures.....its only money!

yep, after a centre fin to a futures adaptor. haha...only money. You may have graduated from the same school as my wife.

That's because she is well educated and quite right , its only money !!

Speak with Troy direct from C-Drives , he hooked me up with an Longboard adapter for my Smik
Love the C-Drives set up as a Twinny

haha, drop off one of your 'black' credit cards and I'll tell her to go for her life.

OkiWild said..

DHUPEDNORTH1 said..


Anyone yet come across a Futures Longboard Fin Adapter you can purchase (i.e not home made)? I have a Jimmy Lewis and while I love the board, the fin setup is very frustrating if you want to go thruster and stick with one type of fin plug (i.e. not split sets)

www.thingiverse.com/thing:477221
Download the file and 3D print it. Many 3D printer places can go straight to the URL and print it. The holes and slot clean out really easilly with a pick or small screw driver. The pin from any of the crappy black plastic fins that come on generic boards pushes right in. the set screw hole is perfect size. Just heat the screw with a lighter and it threads right in. Fits really snug. The plastic along the side is really thin, and depending on the plastic, will crack horizontally, but not a big deal as it's in tension. Working like a champ.

thx. I work with a business that has a pretty fancy 3D printer so I'll give it a go.

The C drives doing there thing.. amazing how much the gopro makes it look like there is no wave at all.

A bunch of c drives have just come up for sale in my area, but the carbon blue and black ones. They're only retailing for $79.99 so wondering if they're genuine but look the same as the other carbon blue ones that another user had on this forum.?

What size would you go for on a sup, i'm only 70kg? Seems some people go XL and others go smaller on sups.
Do they work better as big sides and tiny centre or medium /large sides and small center?

Thanks Colas. They would prob be for my jimmy lewis supertech 8'3?

im still waiting for the seller to respond with the actual dimensions as currently they are several different colours and options but no dimensions or sizes listed.

they also had some twin options for futures, but again no mention of size. I am really keen to know if a twin would work in the suoertech to make it faster and looser in small waves

I saw that, there was a whole bunch on alibaba. Sizes don't seem to match the originals 100%

Nugdam said..
I threw my C drives in my 7'10 hipster, Amazing how much a set of fins can change a board so dramatically. It felt like a completely different board.

What size were they and did you feel it surfed better? I'm surfing an 8'3 hipster.

Nugdam said..

MickMc said..

Nugdam said..
I threw my C drives in my 7'10 hipster, Amazing how much a set of fins can change a board so dramatically. It felt like a completely different board.

What size were they and did you feel it surfed better? I'm surfing an 8'3 hipster.

I've been just using the twinfin C drives. I think they only have one size.

I wouldn't say they surf better, it just surfs different. I surf fairly aggressively ( hard pumping and I like really throw the board around) So the stock fins where you would slide the fins out on the bottom/top turns the C drives just kinda grab and send you in the new direction. They seemed to stiffen the board up a bit but they are super drivey. It just makes for a different experience.

Thanks for the quick response. I'll get some and give them a try.

What size were your twin cdrives vs your normal smik fins?
the knock off c drives had heaps listed as 'twin' but had different sizes. Most weren't as big as the actual twins

OkiWild said..

DHUPEDNORTH1 said..


Anyone yet come across a Futures Longboard Fin Adapter you can purchase (i.e not home made)? I have a Jimmy Lewis and while I love the board, the fin setup is very frustrating if you want to go thruster and stick with one type of fin plug (i.e. not split sets)

www.thingiverse.com/thing:477221
Download the file and 3D print it. Many 3D printer places can go straight to the URL and print it. The holes and slot clean out really easilly with a pick or small screw driver. The pin from any of the crappy black plastic fins that come on generic boards pushes right in. the set screw hole is perfect size. Just heat the screw with a lighter and it threads right in. Fits really snug. The plastic along the side is really thin, and depending on the plastic, will crack horizontally, but not a big deal as it's in tension. Working like a champ.

I just got a quote from a place for $75.00. Another site did auto quoting and was $95.00
I know not much about 3D printing except its expensive!

Keep us posted on the alibAba c drives, I'm intrigued to see what kind of state and finish they are in

benjl said..
Keep us posted on the alibAba c drives, I'm intrigued to see what kind of state and finish they are in

They delivered the wrong ones so no update yet... (got my money back and could keep these imitation ones). When I visit the US will I buy the C-drives from NVS, then I know that I will receive probably the correct ones.

These work a treat in my SMIK hip twin

Better than the alibaba phonies. Penny wise pound foolish.

Using the blue NVS c-drive quad set size small in my new 7'6 quad. I'm 64 kg. Helps with tracking and takeoff as noted elsewhere. Good drive and lateral resistance, but I find them a tiny bit stiff. If you tilt the board enough it overcomes this. Overall these are the best fins I've found so far for SUP but I'm tempted to sand down the lower part of the trailing edge on the rear fins to get a little more pivot out of them. I can't imagine using anything larger than these, and I've never used smaller than a medium size fins in all my regular surfboards.

At the beginning of the video in the last post I thought he was showing what the c-drive enabled him to do, I wish!

I would try quobbas but my board is quad only, the site says don't use it on a quad for some reason. Is it true they might make a quad set? I guess I'll try the stock rear fins with cdrive fronts. I also have a stretch quad set from a surfboard I might try out.