Details of wakesurf board construction.
May 16
We’re going to be doing some testing of new combinations of materials and also revealing a few secrets about how we are working on our new Flyboy Wakesurf boards. We test things ALOT. We have tons of ideas and there are so many new advances in composite technology on an almost daily basis, it’s hard …
May 12
We had fun installing that single trailing fin in the super thick wakesurfer and it reminded us of a project we wanted to test. We were doing some work on a hollow carbon fiber wakesurf board and in our work we ran up against a weight issue so we’ve put that project on the back …
May 11
We don’t think that folks mean any harm when they talk about thinks like “float” and “push”, they are simplistic definitions that attempt to describe the sensation being felt. The concept of wave propogation and not linear travel just sort of muddies the issue and isn’t helpful in describing the forces that are being felt. …
May 08
So we are finished with all of the lamination efforts and you’ll probably notice that we only used one layer of 6 oz e-glass on both the top and bottom of the lastest wakesurfer. Now normally when we would do a futures fin installation, we would place the boxes under the glass, meaning that we …
May 08
We’ve already ridden this board and it worked as expected, we’re probably two days away from sharing those pictures, so we hope you’ll stick around as we wrap that up and talk to you about capturing lift, as there is no such thing as PUSH in a wakesurf wake. It’s also pretty interesting to get …
May 07
We’ve actually finished this wakesurf board and hopefully we’ll have some wakesurfing pictures for you in the coming week! We now should document how we got from the shaping to the wakesurfing. As you remember we had finished shaping this wakesurf board and now we need to laminate it. We are using epoxy as the …
May 03
So we started hacking and cutting into this wake surf board with hand saw and jigsaw. We should note that this foam is just EPS insulation foam, and it is a 2 pound density. You can get this stuff in just about every city. We bought this in a 4′ x 8′ billet and then …
May 02
We introduced the concept of super thick wakesurfers. There are others that have built in this configuration, so we’ll apologize for making it sound like we created that concept. We noted the Roush Mega Loaf and we should also mention that Lakewakes builds a few super thick wakesurfers. So we’re going to jump into the …
May 01
That was a fun headline. We are so far behind on a bunch of stuff we’re pretty sure that all of this is coming off almost random-like. Actually it probably is random! We are in the middle of a fun project that we hoped would let us do something different. We wanted to create a …
Apr 27
In the last post we laminated all of the materials and lapped the rails with the fiberglass and the next step is to vacuum bag the laminate stack to this wakesurf board. We thought we’d talk a bit about the whole process of vacuum bagging as it still is a mystery to most folks. This …
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