Seems Like Everyones doing it these days!

by **kitesurfer** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:12 am

Loving the fact that many of you guys out there are shaping your own rides these days. Nothing quite like riding a board you made your self.

Here's my latest edition to my ever expanding quiver of boards. (rapidly ruinning out of space at home at the moment but who cares)

Im planning on doing alot of wave kitesurfing this year and needed an improvement on my current 2 wave boards so this boards shape and dimensions is designed with an aim to achieve a specific goal. Fingaz crossed i'll find out if ive got what im aiming for as there is wind forecast for the weekend!

The board is made from epoxy, extra strength is necessary for the amount of abuse its likely to get! 2 layers of 6oz glass on the bottom and 3 layers 6 oz on the top with further strengthing round the footpads.

The board is 5ft7 x 17.25 x 1.875. Deep single concave through to v in the tail.
Fins are red-x as this will allow me to adjust the looseness of the board. Loose for choppy surf and stiffer in bigger more well defined swell. Well thats the theory anyway.

KS

by **Sillysausage** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:51 am

sweet board KS. when you think you'll be getting out on it?

by **kitesurfer** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:58 am

All day saturday and all day sunday. :party:

KS

by **essex sucks** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 11:56 am

sweet looks nice mate have fun

by **scuba steve** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 1:07 pm

That looks great!
3 layers of 6oz. glass fibre and epoxy, wow that's gonna be bulletproof.

by **jethrodog** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:22 pm

Love the bottom logo. Sweet old school 70's look.

I hope that was what you were going for..... :oops:

Sweet board!!

by **jethrodog** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:23 pm

Oh, and I'm not doing it these days, I just sit and wait and hope that someone else will do it for me.

by **isaluteyou** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 5:48 pm

sweet as mate

- loving the colours too. What sort of blue is that.

Thats some serious glassing. Hows the weight?

Let us know how she works :wink:

by **spark6** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:12 pm

3 layers of 6oz? *whistles* wow, that thing is a beast! did you use a relatively dry lay-up? I just did a 7oz+1.2oz bottom and a 2x4oz top and i thought I had designed a bulletproof board... are the loads any different on a kite board vs a surfboard? (i've always wondered)

anyhow, looks like a beauty! i love the color. did you put that on the blank of under the hotcoat?

by **kitesurfer** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:28 am

isaluteyou wrote:sweet as mate - loving the colours too. What sort of blue is that.

Thats some serious glassing. Hows the weight?

Let us know how she works

The board weighs in at 4kgs complete with straps etc, but weight isn't an issue in my opinion on a kiteboard infact i prefer a slightly heavier board when its choppy. But 4kgs is not heavy considering the amount of glass on the board.
The loading on this board will be hugely different to a normal surfboard, specifically around the deck where my feet go. At this point i have extra patches as well becasue the board will dent. This board too coming in at 1 7/8 inch thickness needs all the strength it can have because i am more than capable of jumping 30ft up and you don't allways come down softly.
Also the choice of fin systems is critical as fcs just aren't capable of taking the loadings and will quite often pop out, hence the use of red-x fins which the plugs pass right through the board.
The blank was sprayed blue with the logo masked out but then i sprayed the finished board the colour you can see using auto motive spray cans and laquered over the top. Real easy to do!

KS

by **drowningbitbybit** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:49 am

isaluteyou wrote: loving the colours too. What sort of blue is that.

Shhhhhhh! Dont tell Kitey its blue!

...He thinks its yellow... :twisted:

by **essex sucks** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:57 am

drowningbitbybit wrote:
isaluteyou wrote: loving the colours too. What sort of blue is that.

Shhhhhhh! Dont tell Kitey its blue!

...He thinks its yellow...