5'7 fischy kitesurf

For my comeback to sway a little build thread.
Will be a one month process, working on it when i have time.
The board is 5’7x20"x2"1/2 fishy swallow, it’ll be use mostly as strapless kitesurf, possibly strapped too and a bit as surfboard. Light weight guy.
That start with blank hotwired cut in 1.5eps


Then i cut a groove in bottom, lam a ud carbon and cap it with eps.

Cut outline


Ready for shape…

Why the lines dividing the blank into 6 segments?
Or 3rds if the centerline is a stringer?

Centerline then, one line at wide point, one line 1 foot of tail and one 1 foot of nose. It’s where i mark for shaping bevels.


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Shape finished

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I set fcs2 plugs quad + center, fill grooves with same mix of resin+microfibers then lam a strip of ud carbon (9oz)


Bottom lam: 3 layers 4oz warp glass, yellow tinted RR2000 epoxy, cheater coat


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Looks great! You did well not to get any resin on the tablecloth!!! :joy:

:grinning: It’s the veranda table. When it’s sunny i put board cooking in hot veranda.

Prep the deck, i add wood strip to connect fins plugs to deck skin


Then i vaccum bag cork skin. Under full 4oz glass, kite reinforcement: 6oz biax carbon foot pad and center strip 8oz UD glass.

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Hi Lemat,
your doing a double layer of carbon on the bottom, a tiny sandwich, right? Is it intended that these layers get connected with resin?
Could you explain this detail a bit further?

Yes it’s like a rectangular tube 25x8mm with top and bottom ud carbon, side wall resin reinforced with short fibers, filled with eps.
It"s a rib that increase skin stiffness to fight buckling, easier for me to work with than crossing blanks stringers.
I start to work on rib on surfboards about 20 years ago…

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What do you think about the light drive / Vulcan construction in these terms?

I think it’s a good idea for stiffening skin.

Today work, set foot strap plugs and seal cork with epoxy micro slurry

Just laminate deck, after a sand prep 80grit i laminate a layer of 9oz biax glass.


I prep here at all 1.2 more resin than fiber weight. Left some in the bucket at end.
Wait half an hour then cheater coat…

Not sure what I’m seeing here - this is over the Cork, black resin ?

Cheater coat with epoxy slurry

Yes, 9oz biaxial glass hand laminate with black tinted resin over sealed cork, wraping rails.

Sand, glass, sand…
3.6kg straped kite build so very stiff under feet and ready to survive mid hard landing, this stay a lightwind strapless kitesurf board with strap option. This board with durable surfboard build should weight 2.6kg.

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