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FCS Thruster PC GL-1

FCS - SUP Fin
Thruster
GL-1 Model
Material: Performance Core

Description:
- Performance Core -
Performance Core material and construction is designed to deliver the feeling of a traditional fiberglass fin with the added performance of reduced weight. The RTM (Resign Transfer Molding) process produces a lightweight fin with remarkable flex, a smooth feel and an impressive aesthetic.
- GL-1 -
With the GL Quad SUP fin set, Gerry Lopex and FCS Fins teamed up to create an ideal quad set for SUP stand up paddleboards. This 4 fin set gives the surfer a high performance quad set up designed for surf SUP, these fin sets would also work great on a longboard with quad plugs as well as SUP.
"Shaping my own boards of every kind since 1968, has impressed the critical importance of fin shape and design as equal to that of surfboard shape. Now SUP has arrived on the scene and removable fins are utilized on practically every board. I prefer the thruster and/or quad setups for my SUP surfing boards. Working with FCS, I've designed both a thruster set as well as a quad setup. So for wave riding, I think we got you covered. Keep paddling."

For specific surfboard designs or as specialized fins.

SUP Board Fin Selection:
No matter if you’re flat water paddling or SUP surfing, or a little bit of both, it will pay great dividends to give some serious consideration to what fins you’re using. Most low-end SUP boards come with only a single, generic, cheap plastic long board fin. Upgrading your fins is the easiest way to really transform the performance of your stand up paddle board, and with a couple sets of fins you can suit your board for great flat water paddling one day and SUP surfing another.
Often times lower end SUP boards don’t even have more than one fin box so your options are limited. Most high-end SUP boards, and especially paddle surfing boards, will have flexible fin configurations such as a 5-fin configuration. At the very least, most surfing SUPs should have a 2+1 fin box configuration, which will let you set up your board as a thruster (3 larger, equal size fins), a 2 + 1 (larger longboard fin in the middle with smaller side bites on the sides), or just a single longboard fin configuration. For flat water paddling, the most important concerns are typically drag and tracking. For surfing, there are a lot more variables and choices to suit the different preferences of SUP surfers.
The first thing you need to determine is what type of fins will “fit” in your board. The center fin box on all SUPs is a standard longboard fin box. Any longboard fin, regardless of the brand will fit in these center boxes. The flanking fin boxes are another story. These will either be Future SUP fin boxes or FCS fin boxes, and you have to get the same brand fins as you have boxes so you’re choices are set by how your board was manufactured. Fins are removable, so you can swap out one style of fin for another, so long as you stick with the correct brand on the side fin boxes.

When it comes to SUP surfing, there are lots of SUP fin options to choose from: