Best fins for long surface swims

[pvb]

Hello,

I am doing a island-to-island race in a few weeks and am looking for a good pair of fins for the 20+ swimming sections. It must be open heel fins since I want to wear my running shoes in the fins (this will save a lot of time on the 40+ transitions.

So far I have tried both the Force Fins as well as a pair of Seawing Nova from Scubapro (Seawing finner fra Scubapro). Both of these fins seem much too stiff for these long swims (total of 7 miles).

I have also tried a cheap ($20) pair of snorkel fins (not open heel) and these perform far better than the above. It seems that I need something like the cheap snorkel fins, but with an open heel design.

Any suggestions?

Peter

 

[speardaver]

Hi,
i would suggest contacting Dave @ www.fins4u.co.uk
he supplies leader fins which can be custom made (size and stiffness) to suit your needs at what i find to be very competitive prices!

 

[titan]

I see you are from denamrk aren't trying to compete against the ferry aren't you?!?!?:blackeye
just joking ok hands to work again, you have lot's of clubs in denmark specially the aarhus freedving club and by what I saw they are great group and efficient they could tell how to buy the certain types of fins and the certain store to get them faster in your hands since you need them quickly

I would recomend to you if are only going to swimming with not to choose a monofin I also do long distances in northern Spain I have no boat so have to swim a lot against crazy weather and waves

Whatever you choose I can tell by experience that for surfance swimming a good blade angle is mandatory otherwise you have to bend your knees a lot or fin will be half of the time on the surface

If you still choose bifins there are the sporasub spider a excelent snorkling model but forget about using them underwater,sporasub got a lot of good snorkling fins with open heel,gara 3000 LD super soft long fins, omer Ice fins another soft long fins, or the cressi reaction pro recently I have been using these instead of my mono great angle soft small, high trust excelent for shallow,cave,kelp forest diving

good luck with your comp