Too late to turn back now.
The old slalom is being reborn as a plate mount Foil board

To start with I'm bolting on my Zeeko alloy foil.
The idea is to use an old board with an easily mountable foil to test it out.
Have some fun then get a system with Tuttle to fit to a decent board if I like the whole thing.

Definitely keep us updated, been pondering this one myself. Plenty of old boards under the house and a carbon kite foil that is pretty easy to mount. Just don't know how well a kite foil will work on a sailboard.

The windsurf foils with Tuttle connection have the front wing 100mm further forward than a kite foil. They also use bigger wings but I like getting moving a bit before foil kicks in.
To get the footstraps and foil position in line with more modern shaped boards I had to move it all closer to mast track. Plus it was a 9' board and I wanted to compact things to reduce enertia effects. And it gets my footstraps a bit wider.
Plus the nose and tail were a bit rotten.

I have to put in something for footstraps as in inserts.
Any suggestions?????

If it doesn't workout Tony you can still do this.

Piv said..
Keep us all updated. I had a look at a horue foil in one of the shops here last week. I reckon there is room for improvement.

There's a shop in WA that has a Horue foil? Where? I'd love to take a look at it!!

Coutouts are all the rage, but those cutouts on the motorised ones take it to a new level.

Piv said..
Sails and windsurfing 15/30 peel rd oconnor. Not sure if the horue foil was for sale. Steve wasnt there when i dropped in. Lots of nice patrick boards there too.

That one belongs to big Darryl
finally got mine out this mornng for the second time in nice conditions
foiling with a 5.6 in around 10/12 knots

rrdsailor said...

snides8 said..

Piv said..
Sails and windsurfing 15/30 peel rd oconnor. Not sure if the horue foil was for sale. Steve wasnt there when i dropped in. Lots of nice patrick boards there too.

That one belongs to big Darryl
finally got mine out this mornng for the second time in nice conditions
foiling with a 5.6 in around 10/12 knots

Did you purchase an Horue as well Steve? if yes what size front wing did you order?

Yes got the light wing and the crusing wing
Used the cuising wing today and found it a bit easier to use.

Rough but Ready to rumble.

RAL INN said..
First outing the sticky backing of deck pad material decided to let go so very short session.

Watch out for that green bouy on the corner , theres a lump of sand and weed sticking out about 10 metres . Cost me a boom !