Im looking to build a wake surf board in the next few days to give to my brother out in florida, the boat he has is only a tornament boat that we load up with people water and beer however the wake is still very small. I have tried a small almost skim board design and a small symmonds style design but neather were great so looking for ideas on whats best for a small wake.
many thanks
Green Light surf supply makes several wake board blanks. My only experience with wakeboards is via a young friend of mine who I watched many times from the boat on a glass skim board. I always thought that it would work a lot better with some more float(volume). But he insisted to continue using the skimboard and waste our time watching him lose the wake and fall.
Just this past weekend I rode a wakesurf board for the first time. And just this past Tue I was picking up some foam from an outfit that manufactures and sells wakesurf boards. I glassed and bagged a board for a buddy that took me surfing, and although I didn’t take specific measurements of his whole board, I did get this.
Length 4’ 10" Width 22 1/2" 12" from tail 19 1/2" wide. 12" at tail. I didn’t get 12" from nose or fin placement, but his board had a shortboard style nose. 3 1/2" nose rocker 2" tail rocker. HARD tucked rail all the way.
The boards the manufacturing shop I visited had a fuller more fish style nose (no measurements taken) and the main thing I noticed was that right at the tail the boards looked to be prob 1 1/2" thick. That thickness caught my eye. Seemed to be a distinctive characteristic.
Hope this helps. Oh and, it was fun. Spectacular wipeouts!
Phase 5 has some good stuff and I like the look of most of the Liquid Force range. I built a Happy Pill to kite with and that is really good being “Simmons like” in nature…I reckon the Sixer would also be a laugh…
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The above video from Ronix has some nice shots of the boards in the water.
Lakewakes is a member here, one of his below.
cheers thanks for the info so far, the footage from lake wake on his bean looks interesting and like it is a fairly small wake.
this is the last one i built, i thought it was going to go better than my first which was smaller and thinner with a more rounded outline however it is a real strugel to keep it moving. ps i did end up putting bigger fins on it
