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True Ames
Channel Islands Spicy
The CI Spicy is an upright-style single fin designed in collaboration with the fine folks at Channel Islands.
★★★★★5.0 (9)
In Stock
$99.50
new customer discount · applied automatically at checkout
Fin SystemSingle / Longboard Box
Size
Color — smoke
Designer: Al Merrick
The Fin
The CI Spicy is an upright-style single fin designed in collaboration with the fine folks at Channel Islands. True Ames took that slender outline and conservative rake profile reminiscent of the classic single fins of the ‘60s and ‘70s, and optimally tuned it with an updated foil and flex profile for present day performance.
The product of a collective effort together with Devon Howard and Britt Merrick, this fin was created with CI’s Tri Plane Hull mid-length in mind–a board that blends a Greenough-inspired planing hull together with Al Merrick’s egg outline and CI’s modern-style rail and rocker profiles. But the fin is not at all limited to this board design; it works great on a variety of boards in the mid-size range.
Set yourself up with a CI Spicy fin, and you will be flowing down the line and pivoting in the pocket at your local point break. If you're searching for a way to spice things up within your single fin quiver, this fiberglass wonder will surely be able to get the job done.
- Upright profile allows for quick maneuverability
- Slender design provides flow, especially when surfing down-the-line point breaks
- Pairs well with boards in the mid-size range
- Solid fiberglass construction, raw finish
Specifications
ConstructionSolid Fiberglass
Sizes9.0 – 8.5
Colors1 option
Price Range$99.50
AvailabilityIn Stock
From True Ames
Loose and pivotal, with a springy feeling due to the flex in the tip.
Our take
Buy this for hull-influenced mid-lengths, modern eggs, and anything in the 7'0"–8'6" range that wants to flow. It was built for the CI Tri-Plane Hull and that's still the best pairing — purpose-built for a specific board type, versatile enough to work on others, but most honest when the board underneath it is doing what the Tri-Plane Hull does.
More About This Fin
An upright, slender-outlined single fin in the 8"–9" range, developed by Britt Merrick and Devon Howard of Channel Islands for the CI Tri-Plane Hull mid-length and built by True Ames at their Goleta shop. The template combines a trimmed base and conservative rake with flex concentrated in the tip; a volan construction is also offered, which shifts flex from the tip into the body. It fits single-fin mid-lengths, eggs, and other boards in the 7'0"–8'6" range with planing bottoms and moderate rocker.
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