How to Build a Wind Foil Board - Part 1
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- Home built windsurfing wind foil board.
Board: 79cm wide, 210cm long, 150 liters, 11.6kg
Full core sandwich composite, epoxy with carbon fiber and fiberglass.
This was my second custom board build. I completed the project over the course of 11 weeks during weekends and evenings.
The new challenges of this board were the cutouts in the hull and the recessed mast track.
USEFUL RESOURCES
Board building videos:
www.youtube.com/@toansailboar...
www.youtube.com/@NelsonFactor...
Fiberglass, carbon fiber, epoxy, fillers, vacuum bagging supplies:
uscomposites.com/
fiberglasssupply.com/
greenlightsurfsupply.com/
fiberglassflorida.com/
EPS foam blank
www.wesellfoam.com/
Hardware:
chinooksailing.com/
Windsurfing gear, parts and accessories:
www.nbwindsurfing.com/
Chapters - Part 1
00:00 Intro
00:30 Shaping the blank
06:36 Adding the hull core
13:15 Shaping the deck
16:02 Adding reinforcements
19:27 Adding the deck core
27:32 Foot strap & mast track inserts
For cutting the outline of your boards recommend you build a stationary work table vertical hotwire cutter! Then with outline template on the top of the board foam block and block laying flat and level on your table; simply push the block into the hotwire cutter and follow the template around. This will make nice vertical outline cut with minimal sanding needed to smooth out.
Good idea, and would be a lot less mess, thanks!
Great video. For us total beginners, where do you get the profiles and patterns for tour templates.
This was only my second board, so I'm a beginner too! Board shape is as much an art as science...simple answer is copy bits from what others have done. But first, learn the basics of bottom shape outline and rail shape design and what effects they have. I tried to keep it simple...totally flat from footstraps back, with slight "V" up front with double concaves, small flat on sides.What I did was find boards I like, then try to copy certain aspects into the new board.
I copied several pictures of boards into Google slides (use 1:1 scale makes it easier) made some minor adjustments then took lots of measurements to transfer to a wood template. Yes, Google slides! Illustrator, Inkscape etc would be better. Or use a board shaping program like Shape3D with option to send to CAD. Let me know if you want to see the file I used.
Where do you buy/order all your foam
1lb density EPS foam: www.wesellfoam.com/
Divinycell H-80, 4' x 8' x 1/8" (cut to 2' x 4' to save on shipping):
www.uscomposites.com/
@@goldney thank you !