Using Denali fin what wing are you using

[Ed_Johnson]

The Mini-Wing at 5 degrees works best for me. Anything larger or more angle gives me extra drag that I can feel.

That was the same for the Vapor, EVO, and NRG.

 

 

[S1Pitts]

Denali - 6 deg on C 65 and 7 deg on Vapor.

[thager]

My Denali felt like I was dragging an anchor until I reset the S-wing to 5 degrees. I have no idea how some people are running 9-10 degree S-wings!!

[Ed_Johnson]

Totally agree with @thager, I have 6 different size wings I have tried, and anyone of them, including mini wings and ventrals, when placed over 5 degrees, on 3 different skis, added drag you could feel.

 

 

[Bruce_Butterfield]

Homemade S-wing at 6.5 deg. More than 7 deg is way too much drag

[Ali]

I am running the standard wing on my vapor at 8. Sounds like I should be trying something smaller. Where is best place to get one?

[A_B]

I bent my own medium size wing a few degrees in back. Usually run 9 and tried 7 for my first set and it felt pretty solid.

 

Now I am waiting on weather for round two.

[jipster43]

I would love to try an s-wing on my fin. Are those ever going to become available for purchase? I’d love to try a c-65 too. Are those ever going to be available in a 65”?

[disland]

I tried standard wing at 7 and felt like I was dragging an anchor, next set no wing. Fixed the anchor problem but ski was somewhat unstable. Went to mini wing at 7, not quite there yet. Should I go 5 degrees or make the fin smaller next? ( note: I am only a 28 off guy)

[Ed_Johnson]

@disland ... Go 5 degrees no matter what size wing you use. I found the mini wing works great at 28 and 32, and a medium size wing at 35 and 38, all at 5 degrees.

 

[Wish]

Don't think I've ever seen a 5 degree angle gauge.

[Ed_Johnson]

@Wish...Maybe that's been your problem !!! LOL

Guess you could always put a 12 opposed by a 7 together !!!

 

 

[Wish]

@Ed_Johnson I just need to swing down to your place and barrow yours LOL.

[Ed_Johnson]

No Problem..There's a whole set in the glove compartment on my 200. Everyone else on the Lake uses them, plus the next Lake over.

 

[VONMAN]

jipster43 Save your money, if you really want to feel what a S-wing feels like. Set your normal wing to 13 or 15 degrees, then ski on it and tell me how it feels. Good luck!

[disland]

@Ed_Johnson 5 degrees on the mini wing is the ticket, I would never have tried that without your help Thanks

[Than_Bogan]

Yesterday I finally got around to actually trying a normal wing with my (prototype versions of ) c-65 and CG Fin. I was really surprised that it was completely different from the S-wing. After almost a year on the S-wing, the regular wing felt terrible. So much glide everywhere and flying right past the buoys. I actually had to stand rather differently to even run a pass.

 

That's not to say a regular wing couldn't work with the ski. In fact, I know for a fact that the ski was nearly done before the Denali team even came up with the idea of the S-wing, and they were absolutely loving it with the regular wing.

 

But I think perhaps the take-home is that a regular wing and an S-wing require substantially different setups (perhaps both bindings placement and fin setting). And that seems to further imply that if somebody is interested in taking advantage of the S-wing (which I definitely suggest!) you may need to tune your setup to let it do what it's designed to do. When it's set up right, it doesn't cost any cross-course speed, but then shuts right down into a controlled turn with tight lines everywhere.

 

But based on what I experienced last night, I bet if you I just slapped an S-wing onto a ski fully turned for a regular wing, that the ski would shut down before it even got started?

 

I suspect all of this also applies to a non-Denali ski.

[Ed_Johnson]

@disland .... Your welcome, glad it worked out for you. What I also found out was the mini-wing at 5 worked great through 32 off, going to 35 and 38, a medium size wing worked well to help slow you down a little more. Still at 5 degrees!!!