who's the moron who decided to try to make his own removable fins?

oh yea, me... so i went out this morning to Huntington and was trying out some new fins i finished last week. These fins were originally on my board, but i cut them off, and redid the bottoms so they'd fit in the fin boxes. it was drizzly and gray, and the waves kinda messy but alright so i headed out. on my first wave i went left and could see it was gonna close out quickly so i cut back into the wave sharply to smash through it and out the back. after doing so i pulled my board back to me via the leash, and whatta you know, one fin was gone! sweet. one wave. one more failure. this one broke off right at the base where the tab goes down into the box. great. i looked around and didn't see the fin, so i thought I'd paddle in. right as a wave was coming to push me in i saw the fin float up about an arm's length from me, but the wave hit right then, and i was pushed forward. i looked around while in the water some more, then went up on the beach, wondering if it'd get pushed in. i stood around for about ten minutes looking into the water, thought i saw it once, and paddled back out some, but couldn't find it, paddled back in and looked around for another five or ten minutes and couldn't find it. the waves were pretty messy and there was tons of white wash going every direction, so it was hard to see a small light wooden fin anywhere i guess. not sure what i would have done with it if i found it, maybe put it up on the wall of failures, or try to redo it somehow but smaller. either way, bummer. like mel said, guess i'm learning, still stinks though.

wait, aren't there supposed to be two fins?

sick