Anyone else running this set up? I’m now using nomad 155 on a progression 100, 140 and 170. Fast, loose and definitely settles the pitchiness at speed sometimes felt on the 140 and 170. With a slim mast and a nomad tail I still can’t get off the progressions. I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has tried this tail on Unifoil
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How did it fit? You need to make a shim?
Just cut the nub off Unifoil shims and use the other way around (KT are set at +2 degrees). Then I use some plasticine to make it hydrodynamic
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Which (degree) Unifoil shim are you using it with? Are you saying that you would cut the nub off, for instance a +2, then reverse it so it’s a -2 to start out at zero?
+1.5 the wrong way round to give a positive 0.5 shim. The KT tails are set at +2 naturally. They shim from the back bolt to keep a flush connection to the fuse at the front edge… which is irrelevant using on a uni fuse because you’ll have to fill that little gap with play doh or something
Thanks for the reply! OK, that makes sense. This winter I tried a KT tail and shaved it down to fit the Unifoil shims. I was a total prone newby struggling with too much nose lift at the time. Ironically, I only owned a couple of shims and a Shank tail, so I tried it on a +1.5, meaning I was really at +3.5. I got chucked on my first couple waves, so I never tried that wing again. And it felt unusually draggy. Now it makes sense.
Super duper thanks for the info!!! Thanks to you, it looks like I have an awesome new KT tail wing in my Unifoil quiver that’s going to work nicely. I’m going to start with a reverse +2. I’m currently using the Progression 14.5” tail and loving it, but I hit rocks a lot, so extra tails are needed in my future.
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Please let me know how it goes to confirm it’s not just me. Yeah +3.5 definitely wouldn’t work well. If you look at the KT manual it all makes sense.
There’s a lot of hype with foiling and sometimes I wonder if some of the feels are in my head. However I immediately felt some spice proning the nomad tail on a progression so I thought I’d test it more objectively by winging it. I’ve had the prog 140 since it came out and have hundreds of hours on it with shiv/shunt/prog tail. Winging with the nomad tail was definitely more stable and less pitchy at speed with the 140…Felt more like the 100. I added 1 knot to my top speed within a few runs barely trying. On my old tails (when bored on flat water) I’ve had no luck spending a whole afternoon trying to better top speed on my watch.