# KT nomad tails on Unifoil Progression **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 23, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872 "2025-08-23T20:48:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mattllew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mattllew](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/mattllew)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2025, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/1 "2025-08-23T20:48:30Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Digitalove](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.progressionproject.com/digitalove/32/5767_2.png) [@Digitalove](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/Digitalove)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/2 "2025-08-25T03:20:54Z")
How did it fit? You need to make a shim? ---
**Author:** ![mattllew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mattllew](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/mattllew)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 6:59am UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/3 "2025-08-25T06:59:43Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![dillionaire](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.progressionproject.com/dillionaire/32/2800_2.png) [@dillionaire](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/dillionaire)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/4 "2025-08-25T10:48:37Z")
Photos please. ---
**Author:** ![RainbowDash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@RainbowDash](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/RainbowDash)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/5 "2025-08-25T13:05:30Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![mattllew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mattllew](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/mattllew)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 8:56am UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/6 "2025-08-26T08:56:27Z")
+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 ---
**Author:** ![RainbowDash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@RainbowDash](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/RainbowDash)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/7 "2025-08-26T14:09:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![mattllew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@mattllew](https://forum.progressionproject.com/u/mattllew)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.progressionproject.com/t/kt-nomad-tails-on-unifoil-progression/11872/8 "2025-08-26T15:07:58Z")
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.