Closed toe vs open toe fins

[Storker]

I'm quite happy with my Jets, except on one issue: The foot pocket toe is closed.

The splits I bought for my OW course had an open toe. That meant that if I had them dangling from my arm, the foot pockets drained almost instantaneously. However, my Jets have a closed toe, and it's somewhat irritating to have to turn them upside down to avoid splashing seawater all over the place, and to have to put them upside down on the ground instead of being able to just hang them on a peg for drying.

Are there any reasons I shouldn't mod my fins by cutting a hole in each foot pocket, around the toe area?

 

[MikkelBC]

If you drill holes in them, you won't be able to use them for carrying water to rinse sand off your boots like I do

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[David Wilson]

A Turkish manufacturer has come up with a closed-heel fin with an open-toe foot pocket and a Jet-style vented blade:

free-sub Palet

It's also the world's only all-rubber full-foot fin in current production with a heel strap... unless anybody knows different.

 

[Akimbo]

I drilled a 1/2" drain hole in mine. My first pair were bought in 1968 and, if I remember right, had drain holes were molded in. They finally failed about 15 years ago.

 

[Michael Guerrero]

I drilled a couple holes in mine. works like a champ.