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    notice a few guy's with carbon fibre fins. Are they commercially available or are they easy to knock off ?:

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    Carbon fiber fins are used by a few guys. They are stiff for their weight and thickness and can be made as thick or thin as you wish without any machining while metal ones are more limited in thickness unless you have access to special grinding equipment.

    We make our own and sometimes have requests for them on a new boat or just a fin blade/fin blank.

    Durability is good and any damage to the front is easily re-sanded. Failure mode is generally crackiing- more of a total failure than a metal fin bending. But this only happens if you push the envelope making them to thin for the stresses involved or have an inferior mounting bracket

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