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That stuff is beyond my pay grade and security clearance. I did try some serious channel surfing once, but then momma took the remote away from me :-(

I made the leap from single fin, to Tri-Fin, in August 1964. I had never seen one, except in my head. So I made one.

Aloha Matt, The blue tri-fins above, are examples of the PressLock fin system, which I created in October of 1970. The fins required no tools, screws, or pins. (The 1964 Tri-Fin, was done as glass-ons) The ''box'' was formed during the glassing process. The system could also be mounted in an existing finished board too. I used them on Surf Systems, and Surfboards Hawaii. Dewey Weber was the first major manufacturer to step up and use them. He was quickly followed by G&S, Hobie, Bing and others, in 1971.

Bill - correct me if I’m wrong but I seem to recall a conversation we had about the trifin board and the first one you did, thinking you were possibly the first (or atleast very early to the game) - then seeing an old photo (from the early 50’s) years later, of a guy walking down to (maybe pv cove?) the beach with a trifin. Nothing new under the sun haha.