Foil on soft boards

[surfcowboy]

Ok look about half of this thing is speculation at this point so let's speculate boys. (Still hoping some women will join here some day. I finally got 2 awesome female surfers in my core crew this year.)

Foamies, love 'em, hate 'em, but either way they are a thing.

Daily Bread broke an INT so I wanted to post my idea for foiling a softie.

I wanted to set up a Wavestorm to learn to prone and what I came up with was not to mount to the board, but to mount the board, onto a board.

1/4" plywood sealed up as the bottom of the foam board. Maybe 2" narrower in each side to keep the rails from being hard and 4 t-nuts that you could bolt the foil into.

My first backyard test would be like Piros duct taping a foil on. Just wrap the plywood to the board with tape like a mummy to prove the concept and if it worked then you could permanently glue the ply down and also maybe put a few anchors through the board to reinforce it.

I'm trying to envision a longer term custom prone foil board for myself and I can't see why I wouldn't just bag EVA on the top instead of bothering to sand it down.

Who's crazy enough to grab some ply and gorilla tape from Home Depot and get to it? Daily Bread, I think you have the perfect test board now.

[SUP Committed]

I did an 5'-8" waves storm. I installed 2x6 wood block in between the existing stingers, used gorilla glue, then bolted the flange adaptor threw the whole block. To it out and it worked

[SUP Committed]

I also did an 8' waves storm. I mounted an 1/8 plywood, shaped it so it covers the existing holes and bolted it right threw the board totaling 6 bolts. Then used a flange adaptor to mount the foil and also bolted THAT FLANGE right threw the ply wood as well, took it out, and it worked. It's not the best but it did the job.

[exiled]

Jeez, now I gotta go dumpster diving for broken wavestorms.

[surfcowboy]

Committed that idea of bolting to the existing holes is genius.

Avoid the duct tape. I think if you took it a foot forward of the fins you'd be bulletproof.

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Jeez, now I gotta go dumpster diving for broken wavestorms.

I'm currently diving my local grounds, but haven't been able to find any yet. I'm looking.

[805StandUp]

Cool thread surfcowboy... reminds me of Kai Lenny foiling his boogie board:



The other thing I wondered was how well an inflatable really works for foiling:

http://www.californiakiteboarding.com/product/2018-starboard-74-x-30-hyper-nut-foil-inflatable/

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I did a 7' Toquito made by wave storm

[supgobes]

I did a 7' Toquito made by wave storm

I have been wanting to mount my foil to to the taquito too.  Can you post close up pictures of your mount from the bottom and more detail about the materials (screws, etc) that you used?

[surfcowboy]

Yeah, I'm curious too.

I'll offer the idea that if you put a wood plate on the bottom and then cut the top foam off and put a plate up top and then cover it with the foam again and glue it down, I'll be it'd work. But I'm curious as to how this one was done.

[supthecreek]

Cool thread.....

SC, nice adaptation.... is your leash attached to the foil?
That's the only thing worth saving, and the 1st thing to sink!

 

[Beasho]

SC, nice adaptation.... is your leash attached to the foil?
That's the only thing worth saving, and the 1st thing to sink!

A 'feature' of the GoFoils is that they FLOAT!!!!  This is hugely important when they rip out from reef strikes or waves larger than prescribed for safe use.

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Yeah, I'm curious too.

I'll offer the idea that if you put a wood plate on the bottom and then cut the top foam off and put a plate up top and then cover it with the foam again and glue it down, I'll be it'd work. But I'm curious as to how this one was done.

This basically how I mounted my foil. Peeled back the deck foam, dug out the foam, glued a 2x6 wood block in between the exsicting stringers, and glued the deck pad back down. Then used flanged adaptor and bolted it right trough the block. Hope this helps answer your question.

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Here's a few pics of this board

[supuk]

personally I would want to add some extra strength to cantilever of the mast mount to the front foot area, it will never last without it