single-fin

A surfboard with one fin, as compared to boards with anywhere from two to five fins. Surfboards were finless until Wisconsin-born surfing polymath Tom Blake attached a low-profile metal boat keel to the back of one of his paddleboards in 1935. "Never before had I experienced such control and stability," Blake later wrote. The surfboard fin didn't catch on right away (most surfers thought it was t...

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