Garage Works - 12/27/2023

I saw a clip on Instagram - and immediately started planning out No.34

I'm going to sit on this for a day or so.  I want this one to be more versatile than No.30 - more accessible wing foiling and more efficient prone Foil Driving (this one will be planned for a FD Assist Max) and even regular prone foiling.

The width of this current outline is just over 19.5" at 6'4" length.  I'm wondering if a 6'0" length with 20" waist will be better for what I want this board to do...

The Next Project - 4'10" Prone Foilboard

With Marlon's longboard all finished, I've been trying to figure out the template for my next board.  This one is going to be a stripped down windsurfing board and it'll end up becoming a 4'10" prone foilboard.

Here are the templates I've come up with so far.

I printed this one out already, but it isn't really growing on me.

This second one is Marlon's pick.

This is the one that growing on me.  I'll print them out and lay them on to the donor board (Naish Wave 87L Windsurfing board I got for free) to get a better feel for them before committing to a template.

Building Boards is Not All Blood, Sweat and Tears...

It's also some desk jockey computer work.  Gotta have cool labels on your boards.  Note the "Flying Pig"

And you also have to design the templates for your boards.

This template is for a 4'6" kitefoil board that I'll cut out of plywood, glass and then slap on the kite foil I just started working on.  Now I have to cut out some rice paper and run these through La's inkjet printer.

Jumping Around

Traffic on the way home has been really bad this week.  That is limiting what effort I can put into the foil.  But I did manage to do some work on it yesterday, as well as some other related projects.  First up was trimming some lumber to become fuselages for the kitefoil.

Since I had the miter saw out, I went ahead and cut a 1/4" dowel in 1.5" pieces for joining the fuselage-mast-base plates together.  And I also cut the d-cell planks to the size required for use as reinforcement blocks for the mast track boxes.

Here they are - enough for five boxes (I'll need to make another set shortly - I've got three boards planned out - but this is easy compared to sanding out the foil parts).

And lastly, I downloaded Aku Shaper to pump out some new templates.  I've got a 5'2" and a 5'6" already templated!

There are times when I think it would be easier and faster if I just went to the surf shop and bought a foil board and a foil.  But then I remember I get to teach two kids how to make boards, about composites, and then we all get to ride boards that we made with our own two hands.  That is why I'm doing this.