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Classifieds / SUP Sports Hammer 9'4" x 33" SUP-Foil-Wind San Diego/OC

« on: November 09, 2021, 10:15:46 AM »

SupSports Hammer wind-foil-sup. 9'4" x 33". Fun paddle board for your family, fun to windsurf & surf on small waves, & great board for your very first foiling experience. All carbon. Not a ding on it. Semi-custom board made by SUP Sports in Santa Barbara. King-Tut deep tuttle foil box and windsurf mast track installed. Includes OEM 5-fin setup and board bag. Can include a US-box fin for it as well for when you windsurf it. Located in San Diego, but travel to OC occasionally for work and can potentially meet up there. $650.

Please contact me at rhorton1@gmail.com

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Wind Powered / Mast track placement

« on: July 28, 2018, 09:49:08 PM »

I’ve got a question for all the expert Zoners who happen to windsurf out there. I’m on track to getting myself back under 200lb and am thinking that I could get some good windSUP usage out of my 9’5” Hammer SUP. I’ve windSUP’d my Exocet 11’8” and had a great time in little waves, but it’s a little heavy and slow to turn around.

What distance from the tail of the board is a good place to set the mast track if modifying the board? I have a couple of windsurf boards to compare placement to, but I’m thinking the track placement may be a bit different on a SUP as compared to a dedicated windsurfer? Is mast box placement based on distance from the fin?

It’s such a nice board I don’t want to muck it up. I’m confident in my epoxy skills, but I can install the perfect mast track and still have a dog of a windSUP if the placement is off.

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The Shape Shack / Bottom layup

« on: April 13, 2017, 01:30:29 PM »

I'm tweaking the final specs of my wind-SUP build and have a question for you all regarding the bottom layup.

My original plan was to do a bamboo veneer over the whole bottom that went something like -

1.5lb EPS core
2oz innegra
6oz carbon
bamboo veneer
4oz fiberglass
glossy finish

However, I'm adding up all the layers and calculating weight and I'm thinking that combined with a similar bamboo veneer layup on the top of the board, this setup would lead to something pretty heavy. I've been considering the following for a light-weight bottom layup -

1.5lb EPS core
2oz innegra
6oz carbon fiber tail patch
6oz carbon fiber
painted and sanded finish

Do you think that this will be a durable layup considering the extra stresses put on a wind-sup? This will really only be used for paddling and light-wind wave sailing, so I'm not planning on jumping the thing like I would a windsurfer.... but I do want the board to be able to survive the occasional tumble through the waves?

Also note that I am planning on vac-bagging everything and doing my cloth wetout on a table to keep weight down.

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The Shape Shack / Extra-Large Quad Fins for Wind-SUP

« on: February 28, 2017, 02:44:08 PM »

Hi All,

Long time lurker and first time poster! I am in the final stages of planning a wind-SUP build. A 9'6" innegra/carbon board with bamboo veneer reinforcements over 1.5lb stringerless EPS. All vacuum bagged. The overall shape will be something similar to a SupSports Hammer or Starboard Wide Point. The board will have a pretty fast/flat rocker so I can get it planing under wind-power. I want a step down from my Exocet 11'8" wind-SUP so I can do a little more light-wind wave sailing. It will also be used as a regular paddle-powered SUP.

I would like to put a quad-fin setup on the board and have a question about fin size. I have a windsurf-specific set of quad fins. 10cm + 16cm. They use longboard boxes. I also have a set of 13cm fins. Looking around at surf-specific fins, the XL size quad fin sets top out at about 11cm long. My question for you is would my XXL windsurf fins be beneficial for a wind-SUP build? My thought is that my being heavy at 200lb, plus the extra forces from a windsurf sail would necessitate the larger fins. I ask because the winsurf fins need different fin boxes than surf-style quad fins. Does anyone see a benefit to my adding some 8" longboard fin boxes in a quad-fin setup for this board?

I have used Pro-Box fin inserts in my surfboard and kiteboard builds, and have been very happy with the results. If the longboard boxes are not a good idea I will go back to Pro-Boxes and just grab the largest quad-fin set I can find.