Takeda B-29 Twinny 7'8 review: a stock twin fin that outrode custom boards
Updated 2026-09-20
The Takeda B-29 Twinny is a 7'8 twin fin with a sanded, cedar-stringer finish in an eye-catching pink, custom shaped on the Gold Coast for someone else before it ever reached this rack.
What it is and why I bought it
The order it was built for fell through, and the shaper posted it up as available. It got grabbed to solve a specific problem: a board that could paddle around a crowded lineup near a home break but still catch anything on offer. At 7'8 x 22 x 2 3/4, it comes in at 55 liters in PU, with a rounded, pulled-in swallow tail, thick and forgiving rails, medium nose rocker and a slight tail rocker, running a slight belly into a mild single concave into a double vee out the tail. It came with fixed, glassed-on upright fins that were fast and responsive but a little twitchy, until a small transport mishap damaged them and it was rebuilt around Futures boxes instead.
How it surfed
Opening up the fin boxes turned into the real story of this board: uprights, half keels, S-Wings and C-drive all went through it, and the S-Wings delivered the most speed, clocking 33.7 km/h with long, slingshot, gentle-arc turns on a favorite point wave. That range showed versatility comes as much from the fin configuration and stance width as from the shape itself: it paddled better than a 7'10 mid-length, turned more responsively than a similarly sized fish, and covered everything from small summer slop to head-high, clean conditions. Set against a standard high-quality stock comparison, this one flat-out outperformed the field, to the point that a longer fish in the same rack was eventually listed for sale because it could no longer compete with it.
Who it suits and who it does not
A wide, forgiving-railed twin fin like this suits someone who wants one dependable board across almost any everyday condition, from ankle-slappers up through solid, clean surf, and who does not mind an odd, secondhand color scheme picked up on impulse rather than ordered to spec. It rewards someone willing to experiment with fins rather than leave the stock setup alone, since the fin swap is what brought out most of what made this board stand out.
What happened to it
This board ended up ridden more than almost any other in the rack, before eventually being sold on to make room, after several years, as part of a deliberate effort to stop keeping multiple boards that cover the same wave range.
Questions people ask
What fins work on the Takeda B-29 Twinny?
S-Wings keels delivered the most speed of everything tried, run through Futures boxes fitted after the board's original fixed uprights were damaged; half keels, C-drive and other uprights were also tested.
How does this board compare to custom-ordered alternatives?
It paddled better than a 7'10 mid-length in the same rack and turned more responsively than a similarly sized fish, despite being a stock, secondhand pickup rather than a custom order.
Why was it eventually sold?
Not because it underperformed. It was sold to consolidate a rack that had multiple boards covering the same wave range, after this one had already earned its keep.
This one has sold; more on the boards that came and went sits on the quiver hub. For the case for buying stock over custom, see custom or stock surfboard. For other fast twin fins in the record, see the Surman Dark Void 7'2 and the Vouch Nuevo.
