Don't put anything in there. Glass straight over the top of it and trim it out with a flush bearing cutter afterwards. Easy !

Just picked up my board from the repair shop this week. (It'd been ready for over a month, but I hadn't made it out to the coast to pick it up.) This was $90. Granted, I provided the replacement mast box, but even then... (and I left a significant tip...) I could never in a million years have done this myself to that level of quality, not to mention the aesthetics or the price. I've sailed 2 days on it this week, and it's solid as a rock.

If anyone on or near the mid-Atlantic East Coast ever needs repair work done, Donny at Fox Watersports in Buxton, NC comes highly recommended!

Paducah said..

Mr Hooper said..
Don't put anything in there. Glass straight over the top of it and trim it out with a flush bearing cutter afterwards. Easy !

Miss him.

jims, how to tell everyone you are American without telling them. I mark my board in cm. Board looks nice and the price was right.

LoL, guilty as charged! :-) In my defense, however, the advice I got was to put the mast base 43" in front of the Tuttle bolt, and that came from an Aussie here on this most Aussie of forums! ;->

FWIW, I'm finding between 40 and 41 to be more manageable for me...)

Yeah, I pushed it forward to 41" this morning, to see if it'd calm down porpoising in the gusty winds. It did, and I also managed my first full foiling gybe! I think the more forward position helped a lot with the gybe.

Grantmac said..
43" was a very old recommendation for beginners that keeps being parroted. 38-41" is where most freeride foilers end up.

Thanks, good to know. I like 40", in that it comes up onto the foil pretty easily, and points upwind really well, but I find the fore/aft balance pretty touchy, and especially on the short 61cm mast I need to use for much of the Outer Banks, I find myself foiling out pretty easily and frequently in gusts at 40". I'm surprised that an inch makes such a difference, but with the sail at 41", it's noticeably less touchy (so I'm not foiling out as much in the gusts), and it really seemed to make a difference in my gybe attempts. I did, however, find that I wasn't pointing upwind as well at 41" - again, I'm kinda shocked that 1" would have such a noticeable effect on that, as well.