iSup for Downwind?

[photofr]

Gluing: you take two materials, and you attach them using glue.
Welding: you take two material, and you apply heat in order to fuse them to form "one material".
Fusing is much stronger.
Gluing is easier.

[deepmud]

I was thinking about this the last couple days - I think for a faster/more solid board some shape changes would help.
What bout a variation on the canoe that SeaEagle came up with?


They have a 3 person, 16' foot version and it only has 2" drop-stitch. If the side tapered to the waterline in back, and wasn't so tall - could be a way to make a strong/stiff board you could paddle.

I was also thinking - why not something like Badfish - but smaller tubes that you can't see....I looked up online, they have roll-flat hose rated to 150psi in 4" and 6" diameter. Pump up the side tubes to 100-150 and what does that do to the stiffness?

The sides of an iSup are round anyway so the inserted high pressure tubes would be like this:



Crazy? maybe not. Maybe I should be opening a patent.......