Imagine designing the most cumbersome, slow looking board in the solar system, and they turn out to be super fast!!
some of the new large f2 boards, the 68cm+85cm i tried are light being carbon and have a real good feel. tried an older 100cm sonic once and the feel is on parallel with riding a 100cm sorry 100 yearold.
All the FOrmula boards from the last few years are plenty stiff - lots of exotic materials. Try a new generation board and I expect you will feel quite the difference.
JB
long boards, short boards now wide boards do you need a permit to take those things to the water
Nice one Paul, what you can create from discards, all yopu need is some imagination and enthusiasm.
My first light wind wave board came from an old windsurfer one design I found in a tip.
having fially got on the water and managed not to fall off, because of the right board, I couldnt resist the challenge. all the foam is HD packaging that a mate gets in his deliveries, the polyuerathane is out of date tins from a drilling company.
cost to date is purely brain power. last photo s 24hrs after thinking of the idea
sorry we didnt get to your end of the planet, we couldnt face the traffic after 4 1/2 days sailing, but we did get on the water
We didn't go to the estuary, figured it would be too crowded with holiday makers, wind was a bit light any way, just had a bit of play out here.
Yes, driving in holiday traffic is to be avoided if possible, may be next time.
your going faster than me. some of my foam was old drillers rejects , and expanded to the same consistency as a bed pillow
Ive got it all under control and cut the hole for the centreboard today, Ive cut out a mold for the plug which i will get back to tommorrow. today was high 30's in the shed so a nanny nap got precedence.
daughter has christened it "fatty boom bah"
added a novice assisting handle to the bow and a good chunk of maranti, just in case
It will be interesting to see how these boards go as far as strength is concerned. I guess entire boards were made of this poured foam in the past, so it should be okay, and as you have noticed it makes a great glue.
Mine's not as wide at only 73cm, and its also getting new footstrap inserts and possibly a new finbox or two. I'm sort of trying to replicate my Hifly Madd.
I know its probably a bit late, but another option instead of a centreboard is to use a us-box fin box up front and using a small us-bx fin there to help drive upwind. My Bic Nova came like this and once you grow out of this stage, you can leave the fin out. They give you a blanking plate to use there.
I'm not sure I'm faster, as it's been at least 3 or 4 months since I started it, and probably another 3 or 4 until its finished.
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(Avert your eyes Bondi!)
That's a silly thing to do! Who would want to cut up a perfectly good board and widen it?
and when filled with foam
OMF'gG FormularNova, Does this mean you'll soon be changing your user name to FattyFlow!!
....and I thought I was brave reshaping a nose or two!!
I guess if you're gonna attempt a project like that, you might as well start with a quality set up! (good old flow)
I reckon this would be a great way of making a kids learning board cheaply, that would end up very stable and light weight and similar in shape to a young gun etc. It probably wouldn't matter if it wasn't that strong either, if it was for subplaning and then light wind planing with a kid on it.
I too have a Bic Nova that the kids are learning on, and wonder whether a young gun may have been a better option.
We'd love to see more pics as the project unfolds.
great way for an old almost 50 to start learning on too( given that there is sweet FA water to do it on either )
(good old flow)
This is sooo inspiring. Can I ask what you are using on filler ( after the polyurethane) and how are you going to finish the board in the end - with a layer of glass or epoxy over the whole lot?? If so, is that going to make it kind of heavy??
I would love to see a step by step on this as apart form being a great way to recycle an old board into something that is potentially awesome to help someone learn on, it looks like a ****e load of fun...
well done guys and thanks for posting the images.
Oh, one last thought on those formula boards, could you go a twin fin set up like one of these racing yachts??
due to budgetry constraints mine will get filled with coremat and surfboard glass with polyester resin.. the original board has a layer of brown foam sandwiched between 2 layers of cloth . i sanded some of this back and tried the polyester and glass on it and got a good bond.
thats why I am getting a layer of polyeurathane foam over the polystyrene. dont expect a fancy finish , but i will try my best. i was suprised at how much pink bog was under the final layer of cloth on the original finish.one area looked distinctly like the heel of a hand
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bogged and sanded the mold for the centreboard today, but too hot to glass
I made a male mold? for the centreboard box from 20mm chipboard, minimal bog ,a coat of sanding sealer and rubbed back to 800grit wet and dry finish, then mold release wax and PVA mold release.
since the day was a cool one i glassed it up with about 3 layers of 250gm chopped strand and 200gms of resin. finished weight is 220gms.
the mold was cut off then soaked in water till I could tap it out.
I then squirted some polyeurathane foam into the slot in the board and shoved the box through, covered it in a plastic bag and some bricks on top to hold it down. photo tommorrow
What you guys (absolute geniuses, in my book) oughta do is, after cutting the board into 3 pieces, find a way to make it so the 2 extra bits can be attached or removed at will, and so the original 3 pieces can be put back together too. I'm thinking Lego-style. Then you'll have a fully adjustable board for all conditions!
Similar project documented at
www.iwindsurf.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17001&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
centreboard box on fatty boom bah has been inserted and glued in with polyeurathane. I used a spray can type for this bit as it could be squirted into the narrow gaps. ( ive also run out of the free stuff) price tag was $9.90.
the top has now been glassed I have a layer of 2.5gm chopped strand, 1 layer 2mm core mat, 1layer of a light surfboard woven cloth.
in some areas I added extra of everything as thats where I'll be standing /kneeling/falling
photo shows the top of the centreboard box. the 2 sticky out bits will take the shock cord that holds the CB up or down .
is just 2 dowels glued onto the glass with araldite then glassed over ready to sand
can somebody remind me of the recipe for making the deck grippy.
I vaguely recall somebody adding sugar? to resin for a grippy surface.
fatty boom bah is coming along and almost ready to paint. the bottom finish is
" appropriate for the outback location in which it will be used"
, no already got some of those,
brown water with zero visibility, probable car bodies/parts, bottles cans ,tree branches , drowned bushes(insitu) roos ,or parts thereof, wire(plain or barbed)RUSTY!!!!!!!,varying depth of 0.1 t0 3m average of 0.3m.
and rocks
maximum sailing leg length 100m( I wish)
