Are you interested in making or building a board to kitesurf on?

Although it may seem like something way out of reach for most, it might not be as un-achievable as you would think. I recently built a new little weapon out of an old ****ty board I had lying around at home and it turned out pretty good. Obviously it's not going to look like a brand new professional board, but it's sure as hell something fun to do and ride.

If you're interested check out my blog for some more info and pictures -

howareya.wordpress.com/

I wanted to make something that felt more like a Wakeskate or skateboard, for doing airs and sneaky little punts in smaller surf. Also I just wanted something to do that would also improve my glassing and shaping skills.

As you have mentioned I figured a wider tail and less rocker in the tail would give me a faster board and more area to "pop" off the lip. I also cut the nose where I did after watching a video of myself kiting and realising that the nose hardly ever even touched the water.

However you are wrong about the fins. They aren't far forward at all. The front fins are in the standard shapers position for a thruster setup, so are the further forward back middle fin plugs. The rear quad fins are in the same position they were on the old board before I cut the tail.

The board is actually super loose and I have been told that moving the 4 closer together on a quad makes it even looser. I liked how it felt surfing, but I think I need more time and a better session to adjust to it on a kite. However I think it will be a lot of fun!

I would be interested in learning how to make a twinny out of some timber, maybe something from laminate strips then glassed.

The only info along those lines was how to make a rather **ty plywood thing, but I want something that will lead to something a little more like the Youri Zoon Pro (extremely optimistic, I know)

Any good instructionals on how to make something like that floating around?

dbabicwa said...
^^^

Here:

boardbuilders-forum.1077691.n5.nabble.com/

Thats awesome! Cheers!

Any vid of the board in action?

Mask said...

sir ROWDY said...

Are you interested in making or building a board to kitesurf on?

Although it may seem like something way out of reach for most, it might not be as un-achievable as you would think. I recently built a new little weapon out of an old ****ty board I had lying around at home and it turned out pretty good. Obviously it's not going to look like a brand new professional board, but it's sure as hell something fun to do and ride.

If you're interested check out my blog for some more info and pictures -

howareya.wordpress.com/

Sorry Rowdy

Thats Fugly.

How does it go?

Hahaha, it's all perception. If you are used to a normal surfboard then I agree it looks like trash hahaha.

Actually goes quite well. I've been kiting it the last 2 days on my forehand and I'm really enjoying it. I got quite a lot of down the line airs which seemed to happen a hell of a lot easier than on my regular 6 foot surfy (I think the lack of nose stops it blowing off my feet as easy). But then again I don't think it comes off the top as well as my regular board. Everything has a purpose, this board is more for airs and tight arced punts.

Is that a buffaloe in the background of the first pic?
And BTW " low spark of high heeled boys"-Good taste!.

hey bro's.

Yes making your own board is super rewarding shredding on a board you have built yourself.

kiteforum has a board builders section.

youtube has tones of vids.

kiteboards are actually very easy to physically make. the hard part is settling on the design and dimensions and then knowning how much glass etc to use to get the right flex patterns etc. most of that will be a suck it and see for the first deck then progress from there.