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Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby Toby » Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:57 pm

There are many postings that should be interesting for both forums...so it has been requested to merge the two forums to create a forum for "Constructions" or similar. Up for ideas on a good name.

It should also be more helpful for the users monitoring just one forum instead of two.

What do you think?

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby kostantin » Tue Jan 15, 2019 5:58 pm

Sounds great and makes sense

tks

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby grigorib » Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:09 pm

My perspective on that is that hydrofoil / twintip construction has common points,
kitesurfboard and hydrofoil decks construction is similar,

and on top of that there are passionate guys contributing to "No more chicken loop", general bar design, kite design questions and Bruno's dreams becoming reality.

There's enough people interested in kite/boards/bars design to gather and to fuel their passion.
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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby iriejohn » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:02 pm

Merge them. Less is more. "Board Construction".

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby kjorn » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:13 pm

iriejohn wrote:
Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:02 pm
Merge them. Less is more. "Board Construction".
Or DIY kitesurf? Kitesurf Construction?

Put the kitebuilders in there as well. I love it all! I made my own kites, boards, hydrofoils, repaired my bar and lines. I'm interested in all that stuff.

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby GTC » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:18 pm

My 2 cents.
Merge them all and call it "Makers".

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby Toby » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:29 pm

How about “Gear DIY” ?

Or

“Gear Construction”

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby Toby » Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:57 pm

Gear Builders ???

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby JakeFarley » Tue Jan 15, 2019 11:08 pm

Gear Design & Construction

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Re: Your opinion please: Make Board Builders and Hydrofoil Builders one forum?

Postby rynhardt » Wed Jan 16, 2019 8:25 am

R&D Department :D
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