It’s gotten a little more mainstream than that, with Instagram forever throwing up boardporn of twinnies with retro spray jobs, twin fin comps popping up in between heats at the WSL J Bay comp, as well as a twin fin division at the Masters event in the Maldives. Surfboard racks in surf shops are a little more incognito with boards that are straight up white PU twins blending into the squadrons of 6’0 thrusters.
The world’s renowned shapers all have a twin model, with a wide variety of pros singing their praises, among them the ultimate hipster Rob Machado and Aussie alternative free surfer Ozzie Wright. The qualities they’re all loving? Speed + flow +fun.
My own relationship with twinnies has spanned a couple of decades in the windsurfing world, with twin fins coming in and out of vouge as companies pushed for the next big thing, trying to pump out boards. I’ve learnt in retrospect however that in windsurf and SUP it’s for entirely different reasons that I’m loving them.
My recent interest was sparked when I saw a clip of Mick Fanning on a DHD twin; it made me raise a little eye brow. OK, he’s the fastest surfer in the world already, but his snaps on this board were otherworldly.
