Diy sup foil

[Area 10]

Yeah you may need to invent an entirely new shape altogether for this. Maybe fairly flat rocker through most of the board but with lots of nose rocker. Kinda like the rocker on the Mk1 Glide 14 or JL Albatross, but maybe with more volume. I dunno... You aren't going to want to come down and plough the nose for sure, and if a steep bump starts to lift your tail, you aren't going to want to be engaging in lots of fancy footwork at that point...hmm... It's gonna require some thought for sure!

[supuk]

I think this is going to be the plan which is a flat deck version of my 12'6 x 24. allwater design. I cant quite decide on length right now, maybe start of at 12'6 and cut it down from there. It going to be a matter of finding that balance of speed of paddling to get it on the foil as I expect there will be a fair amount of time spent not flying and and reducing swing weight and mass it has to carry.

[supuk]

In the ghetto style I though I would use up all the scrap blocks of eps I had kicking around to make a blank so using pu foam glue they are all stuck together before hotwireing to size to machine.

[clay]

cheers if i could do that all day long i would be a happy person its always  good to make something out of nothing.

The question is now what board to go for? full on race board for maximum paddle speed, a all water semi dw style board a low rocketed dw board or full on dw board!

Awesome and amazing!  Well done!  I hope you find a way to do this all day long.

I have put down a deposit on the gofoil and I have the same question of what board to use?

Does the foil add stability, in that we can use a narrower really tippy board?

And nose?  A penetrator that minimizes the abruptness of a pearl?  Or a really upturned nose that can't pearl?  Or a bulbous high volume nose that skips/bounces/rebounds when it hits the water?

Appreciate any feedback

[supuk]

It's hard to say as I was only using a windsurf board but I'm prity sure we are going to need something with some width as it causes other problems The way I see it at the moment is the harder part is be going to be geting it on foil so I have gone for speed and stability over prity much everything. If you take a nose dive at 10-15 knots I think it's rather going to send you way out the front or it will bounce back up through surface area. Maybe I will try it on the new 21.5 any way until I get this new one done.

[supuk]

Well I have the cnc cutting the blank now and I have allso managed to get a company to send me one of there kite foils to test which apparently is very good at low speeds so will have something for a comparison.

[jrandy]

Looking good Charlie! I like the tinkering and the recycled foam.

[stoneaxe]

It's fun watching you hack Charlie. You remind me of my brother.

[TallDude]

You are the R&D master. Charlie's chitty chitty bang bang garage.

[808sup]

I have to agree with stoneaxe. It is fun to see the progress day by day. That cnc machine is amazing. Keep the pics. coming as I can't wait to see it finished and hear how it works.

[supuk]

You are the R&D master. Charlie's chitty chitty bang bang garage.

fun thing is the chap that made all the chitty chitty bang bang gizmos (Roland Emett) actually only lived a few doors down the road and my dad actually helped him make some of the props for the original film. There was actually a exhibition of his machines at the local museum recently and my dad and myself had to go down and help look after them while they were on display.

[Area 10]

Priceless, Charlie. Absolutely priceless. I'm imagining Chitty Chitty Bang Bang up on hydrofoils now...

[stoneaxe]

Very cool connection.

[supuk]

Few pics from this eve, chopping in a HD block of xps for the foil box to mount in and cutting back the joints in the eps to allow for final sanding. Having the joints in the eps does not effect the strength of the board and by cutting them back and spackeling over them they are almost invisible. The board is now all spakled and after 24h I will final sand it and start glassing. I have ended up going for 11ft as the final length.

[stoneaxe]

What made you decide on 11'?