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Wood is naturally buoyant, it helps lift the board off the water, resulting in higher light wind performance.

Did I miss something?
Did not see your wooden foil ? but lots of walk and finding place to land kite.
Riding part of video is nice
Show us some of that fin!

A bit confused too ?

You have a wood foil front and tailwing in the start - yellow board with black pad and straps.
And the riding is showing a white strapless board ?

But like the idea

Peter

O ye of little faith: 0:41 on the video.
Looks like he has more than one foilboard ...

Looks good, how about a recipe for that!

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I made both the front and rear fins, the front works better than the rear fin. I am going to try titanium on the rear soon. Just not much wind lately.

Looks nice! Did you cover the wood with some fiberglass, or are you only relying on the wood for strength?

I suppose you did not get too much vibrations, since the wood does not tend to vibrate too much? How was your top speed and "glide"/drag compared to the carafino?

The low AR wings Above worked fine without fiberglass.
The high AR wing below was bending too much, I am putting on fiberglass.

wow hawai,
great build and r&d !!!
did you use bamboo plank? what thickness in mm or inches on front and back?
did you use router or did you use a sander?
Pedro

Hawaiis wrote:I made both the front and rear fins, the front works better than the rear fin. I am going to try titanium on the rear soon. Just not much wind lately.

Could we see a shot from the side of your foils
to view the airfoils please ?

Bille

cool, cool!