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Benicia Wind
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- Style: strapless foil
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Postby Benicia Wind » Wed Jun 21, 2017 9:37 pm
I recently built this board from 5 layers of 0.2" thick plywood from Home Despot. I routered out the 3 inner layers to help reduce weight but I left material in the center of the board to support the foil attachment area and the center of the board where I stand. It's about 10.5 lbs so still on the heavy side but not too bad. I stuck on 3M rubberized traction tape which I would not recommend for bare feet.
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tegirinenashi
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Postby tegirinenashi » Wed Jun 21, 2017 10:47 pm
The weight is pretty respectable, especially for plywood from home depot. For comparison, LF rocket is 12.5 lbs. Their excuse might be slightly bigger size, sliding plate mount and combination of inline and V inserts.
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TomW
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TW Surfboards hydrofoil board 135
Moses Fluente 548/550/590/330/325
North Mono 7, 9, 12
Core XR3 12m
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Postby TomW » Sun Jun 25, 2017 3:32 pm
I've glassed the bottom on mine....
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Jyoder
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Postby Jyoder » Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:02 pm
I made mine from 1/2in Baltic birch and cheap Home Depot Bondo poly resin and fiberglass cloth. The deck pad is a $6 roll of adhesive backed cork which is holding up surprisingly well. 10 lbs.
A fellow kiter recently broke a similar board at the front of the mast plate and I'm thinking of making another with 2 layers by the plate to be safe.
Here's a question. How important is it to have the bottom of he board be flat-ish like a regular kiteboard? What if I put a couple external 1-inch high stringers along the bottom of the board to make strong T-beam joints? Since you don't edge a foilboard when riding the board on the water, it might work right?
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Jyoder
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Postby Jyoder » Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:44 pm
Something like this?
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BWD
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Postby BWD » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:41 pm
The picture above with tall stringers sticking down might be too grabby and make the board hard to steer on surface and cause problems on touchdown transitions. I would go with 1x6 glued flat to the bottom, with the edges fully beveled so it has a trapezoid cross section. This would be less grabby but still stiff.
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TomW
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TW Surfboards hydrofoil board 135
Moses Fluente 548/550/590/330/325
North Mono 7, 9, 12
Core XR3 12m
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Postby TomW » Tue Jul 25, 2017 10:35 pm
I'd glue another layer of ply, as wide as the plate, onto the bottom, from tail to nose, bevel the longitudinal edges, then bolt plate through both ply layers.
Problem is weight.
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