Details of wakesurf board construction.
Feb
03
We are not quite ready to laminate the bottom, we still have some preparation of the spread tow carbon fiber to get done before pulling the vacuum on the wakesurfs. In the last post we documented getting the mylar and new bag ready and in this post we are starting to work with the spread …
Jan
30
We love this picture of our slab o’ foam wakesurf board for the “Nose with an arrow” placed on the Nose! The Slab o’ Foam board is so rectangular that it is hard to distinguish nose from tail and clearly deliniating the direction and purpose, keeps that wakesurf board going straight. You can imagine being …
Jan
28
Have you ever read a post on a wake related site where folks suggest that length is the only factor that you need to consider if your wakesurf board isn’t wakesurfing well for you? It’s so prevelant as to be ubiquitous. So what about width, thickness or rocker? You NEVER read about that do you? …
Jan
27
Wow! What a morning we’ve had. The server that hosts the Flyboy Wakesurf Boards website, flyboywakesurf.com went down and it tooks HOURS on the phone with the hosting company to get that resolved. At least we are back up and running! However that does put us substantially behind in documenting our current wakesurf board build. Being …
Jan
25
We want to talk a little about the concept of thermoforming a wakesurf deck skin. For those that have followed along with us, you’ll remember that we started these composite sandwich wakesurf builds with a high density rail material. It was almost a perimeter frame, that was built up and glued into place. For wood …
Jan
24
We have been giving some thought to the way that water interacts with the wake surf board. Hydrodynamics if you will. In the past we’ve shaped elaborate rail bands that followed the outline of the board. Tracing outlines that curved along the rail line and shaping to that curve. Then we thought, what purpose does …
Jan
23
We are continuing with our wakesurf board building. You may remember that in the last post we talked about flipping the wakesurf board and rocker bed upside down to take advantage of gravity, so that the slow epoxy would sort of ooze downward with the force of gravity and by placing the board upside down, …
Jan
21
One of the interesting things about wake surf board design and fabrication is that there is a significant amount of misinformation that gets bantied around. It makes it hard to make an informed decision unless you actually know how to build a wake surf board. If you did, you probably wouldn’t spend a great deal …
Jan
20
In our last post we talked about hotwiring the rocker into our core and we mentioned that we wanted to explain a few things with the cutting of the outline as we have some changes in the way we are building these two new wakesurfers. If you’ve followed us for an appreciably period of time …
Jan
19
If you’ve been following us for any period of time, you know that we are focused on the improvement of wakesurfs. Much of this blog is devoted to research and devlopment with regard to wakesurfs construction and particularly composite sandwich wakesurfs. We are going to be undertaking a number of new construction concepts over the …
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