Wingfoilboard - Ken Adgate Style
Homebuilt Carbon Sandwich Wingfoilboard
The shape of the board is inspired by the designs of Ken Adgate. My thanks to him for his endless tinkering to get the perfect board shape and his generosity in sharing his ideas.
Dimensions:
163 cm x 49 cm x 14 cm, 78 litres, 4.56 kg with pad
Materials: …
DW-Board full build
Home-build of DW-board for light wind winging, paddle-ups and lake-DW.
The board shape is inspired by Kalama’s Barracuda and KT's Dragonfly.
Dimensions:
240 cm x 50 cm x 16 cm, 115 liters, 5.8 kg without pad
Construction materials:
- Foil tracks: LIO-TEC US FOIL Box 42 cm
- Track box: Airex 80 kg/m3
- EPS: Insulation EPS 15 kg/m3
- Sandwich Standing …
Custom M6-Threaded Footstrap Inserts
Carbon and Stainless Steel
Windsurf board Side Hustle 1 of many..
Brands like Flikka have awesome stainless steel inserts with M6 threads. I wanted something similar for my custom windsurf board and this was the approach:
The basis were stainless steel drive-in nuts that can be bought in any hardware store (don't get the …
Full-Sandwich-Pumpboard
First build of full sandwich double stringer board for pump foiling
After more than a year of pumping with a Pronesurf board it was time to build a real pumping board.
Based on the construction ideas of Christian and with his extensive advice and support I was able to complete this project.
The boardshape is inspired by the WKT from Armstrong. …
Carbon Skate
Lightweight and tough home-made foil pumping board
The biggest issue of my previous build, the Balsa Skate, was that it did not have a rocker. This resulted in two problems:
- it felt like pumping needed more energy in comparison to a board with a rocker
- if submerged deep in the water, the board would slowly soar …
Balsa Skate
A Wooden Pumping Dream
After seeing a friend's Balsa surfboard I was immediately hooked and had to build my own for pumping. The first sketch outlined a small and flat (no rocker) pumping board that I could easily transport with public transport or put in a travel bag without loosing too much space..
This …
JP Magic Ride Repair
Nose Damage due to Catapult
I damaged the nose of my JP Magic Ride 118 in one of the famous 'Föhnstürm(e)' at lake Urner. The damage didn't look that bad at first but the board's surface felt soft at and around the spot on the railing where the boom hit the board indicating delamination. Here …
JP Magic Ride 118 Foil Edition
Replacing a Power Box with a Deep Tuttle Box
Similar to the procedure described in Fanatic Skate 101 I also converted my JP Magic Ride 118 into a foil-ready version. The only notable difference was that the Magic Ride has a reinforced fin-box that is laminated with both lower to the upper deck thus making the removal of it …
Fanatic Skate 101 Foil Edition
Replacing a Slot Box with a Deep Tuttle Box
In this post I show you how I made my Fanatic Skate 101 foil-ready. Almost all windsurfing and racing foils come with a deep tuttle head. So the first step was to make a positive of such head. One of the difficulties is that each manufacturer seems to have its …
Foiling Power Plate
Similar to CHINOOK PowerPlate
When I started hydrofoiling I did not have a proper board that could hold the Deep Tuttle mount of my newly acquired Moses (Kit 85) foil. After several hours of searching for a board on the internet the conclusion was clear: most of the windsurf foilboards were either extremely expensive, …