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Post by tomcatpc on Nov 11, 2017 16:53:32 GMT -8
 Just got these Oceanways "Professional" model fins. From what I can tell, they are close to the Cressi Rondine fins? I got them too late in the season to actually dive them yet... These along with my Cressi Pinocchio Mask are completely my Healthways gear. Mark |
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 12, 2017 15:14:51 GMT -8
Mark, very fun! I'm holding out for a blue pair, and will only get them if I find them thrifting... I'm doing this so that I can let my HW-jones linger as long as it can. It always stinks when you've completed your collection, then ya gotta look for something else to quest for--GRRR! My Voit Viking fins are pretty much toast, and I ripped the toe in my HW Sea Fins, which I will fix but...
JB
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Post by tomcatpc on Nov 12, 2017 19:12:34 GMT -8
Someone noticed this post!!! Yay!!!
Mark
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Post by tomcatpc on Nov 12, 2017 19:13:59 GMT -8
Yes, I have seen these in blue, but looks like production is only in black now? I'm fine with that, but having other colours would be great. Anyway, these are not exact, but will work for me now.
Mark
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Nov 13, 2017 8:33:30 GMT -8
Congratulations on your purchase! I own a pair of light blue Oceanways, purchased on eBay and sized US 12-14 to fit over my suit. Here's a video showing how the fins were manufactured at the Pacific Molding plant in California: They are indeed Cressi Rondine clones, replicas of the all-rubber fins designed in 1947 by Luigi Ferraro and first marketed during the early 1950s by Cressi of Genoa, the first fins with open toes and sharply angled blades. Like the Oceanways, Cressi Rondines have images of a swallow or swift ("rondine" in Italian) on the top of the foot pockets and blades, celebrating the migration of the birds over that part of Italy. My first "proper" fins back in the late 1960s were Cressi Rondine clones made in England for the UK Typhoon diving equipment company. Light blue Oceanways do come up on eBay now and again, and here is one current auction:  www.ebay.com/itm/Oceanways-Aqua-Professional-Fins-Adult-8-1-2-10-OF1132-USA/272766442402DRW |
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Post by nikeajax on Nov 13, 2017 11:59:14 GMT -8
One of the birds we have at the Hayward Shoreline is American cliff swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota). It doesn't have the classic scissor-like swallow-tail, but as you can see from this Wiki-image of mid-air feeding they are acrobatic in the extreme:   I bought a pair of Cressis, but the foot-pocket is just too hard/stiff to get my foot into   I wonder if my friend Jim has any! JB |
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Post by tomcatpc on Jul 8, 2019 17:38:45 GMT -8
Wore these again on my second dive this evening. Think I liked them better than my US Divers Spoiler Fins from the first dive. They felt so less bulky and clumsy. No, the propulsion was not there, but for diving my Healthways SCUBA...I don't care, I'm "soul diving" and not on a "mission". These seem to just fit right in with my Cressi Pinocchio Mask and my HW SCUBA.
Mark
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 10, 2019 15:47:08 GMT -8
Well, my wife and I were out thrifting and look what I found fer like $3.50, the fins, not the regulator:  I think I just need a weight-belt for a complete HW-kit! JB |
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Post by tomcatpc on Aug 13, 2019 8:14:18 GMT -8
I think I saw a Healthways Belt with a few weights on Bay lately? You can do like I did and make your own with webbing and Trident Wire Buckle. I put together two, one in HW Blue and the other in "Golden Rod".
I love my Oceanways fins, plan on diving them with my Healthways kit this weekend at the vintage dive event.
Mark
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Aug 14, 2019 3:21:43 GMT -8
Congratulations on your purchase of Oceanways Aquapros, JB, at such a bargain price too. I won a pair on eBay several years ago and they cost many multiples of what you paid. Helen Mirren, star of "The Queen", used Oceanways Aquapro fins when she and her husband Taylor Hackford went snorkelling in Hawaii during November 2008:   The pair of Oceanways Aquapros I won came in their original cardboard box, which made a nice change from the ubiquitous cellophane bag:  The outside of the box makes interesting reading:  I like the upbeat text on the bottom of the box encouraging everybody to snorkel. The use of the abbreviation "MFS" for "mask, fins and snorkel" is also intriguing as I don't remember seeing it deployed anywhere else. German has "ABC-Ausrüstung" (ABC equipment) as its shorthand for mask, fins and snorkel, while French uses "PMT", short for "Palmes, Masque et Tuba" (fins, mask and snorkel), as its own abbreviation. DRW |
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 14, 2019 7:43:04 GMT -8
DRW, can we say that "MFS" is cheeky?  I do apreciate that these fins are still being manufactured in their original colors, although coral-pink would look totally boss! Even though these are 10-12, I wear a 9, the foot pocket is a bit cramped for me in the toes if I don't place my foot carefully into them. Now I have an excuse to use these:  JB |
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Aug 14, 2019 9:43:33 GMT -8
Indeed, a good opportunity to use your original fixe-palmes, JB. Paul Beuchat's 1960 patent drawings below:  Talking of different hues for Oceanways Aquapros, here's a range of colours Oceanways was considering a while ago: If the information in the image is to be believed, Oceanways introduced their Cressi Rondine lookalike back in 1956! DRW |
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Post by nikeajax on Aug 14, 2019 11:25:49 GMT -8
Dang, the orange and yellow are cute! Huh! I wonder what else Oceanways had in 1956: perhaps "M's" and "S's" too? Were those "M's" and "S's", also copies of something else? JB |
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Post by vance on Aug 14, 2019 18:06:59 GMT -8
Congratulations on your purchase of Oceanways Aquapros, JB, at such a bargain price too. I won a pair on eBay several years ago and they cost many multiples of what you paid. Helen Mirren, star of "The Queen", used Oceanways Aquapro fins when she and her husband Taylor Hackford went snorkelling in Hawaii during November 2008: The pair of Oceanways Aquapros I won came in their original cardboard box, which made a nice change from the ubiquitous cellophane bag: The outside of the box makes interesting reading: I like the upbeat text on the bottom of the box encouraging everybody to snorkel. The use of the abbreviation "MFS" for "mask, fins and snorkel" is also intriguing as I don't remember seeing it deployed anywhere else. German has "ABC-Ausrüstung" (ABC equipment) as its shorthand for mask, fins and snorkel, while French uses "PMT", short for "Palmes, Masque et Tuba" (fins, mask and snorkel), as its own abbreviation. DRW My forever crush...not your dang fins, brah. |
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Post by vance on Aug 14, 2019 18:08:23 GMT -8
'Cept Scarlett....
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I wonder if my friend Jim has any!
I do apreciate that these fins are still being manufactured in their original colors, although coral-pink would look totally boss!
