True Ames Greenough Stage III Single Fin

Why you'll love this fin
Classic Greenough design, made available to the modern surfer. A lively and responsive fin for longboarding, ideally suited for the surfer looking to improve their rail surfing. One of the fins that started the shortboard revolution. A groundbreaking achievement in its time, that still holds a valid place in the fin lineup today.

Form | A large, upright fin, with a wide base & moderate rake.

Function | Ample drive, a blend of hold and release for true rail to rail surfing.

Feel | Responsive, loose and freeing, while also providing plenty of drive and hold when needed.

Overall | Their take on the classic, molded plastic Wave-Set fin. Now available in solid fiberglass construction and designed to fit the modern fin box.

Materials
A fin design is only as good as the materials used for construction. At True Ames, they carefully select the most well-suited types of fiberglass and wood for producing the highest quality fins available. In order to achieve the performance characteristics that have become the standard of solid fiberglass surf fins, True Ames uses E-glass. It is the most common type of fiberglass used in surfboard construction, and its qualities translate with great success into fin construction. E-glass has excellent flex characteristics and performance longevity, while featuring the bonus of outstanding color vibrancy that allows for the variety of colors we offer.

History & Origin

Originally developed by George Greenough in 1968, this high aspect ratio fin blew the doors open to the shortboard revolution. Longboarding would never be the same once these modern fins came into the scene, and ushered in the era of modern power surfing. The surf world is forever indebted to the design and performance innovations of George Greenough, a Santa Barbara native and avid kneeboarder, who is the reason why people today use high-aspect ratio fins and perform radical turns on waves that surfers in the 50s and 60s only dreamed of. A backyard craftsman and inventor, Greenough became known for his hugely influential board and fin designs dating back to his high school days in the early 60s where he would shape his first boards in wood shop out of balsa. Fast forward a few years and the Velo-spoon (short for velocity) was created. A short, red kneeboard with the deck scooped and a wide flex-tail. This board rocketed Greenough into the next dimension of wave-riding as it showcased a combination of design ideas to allow the types of maneuvers that inspired generations of surfers to this day. His kneeboards weren’t the only thing catching the attention of the surf world. The high-aspect ratio fins Greenough created to compliment his kneeboards, a direct influence of sea creatures, took the world by storm. The likes of Nat Young and Bob McTavish took notice and soon the best of the best surfers were ditching their D-fins for Greenough’s design and in 1966, was a direct influence to Nat’s winning of the world surfing championships and the ushering in of the shortboard revolution.