Hydrofoil kiteboard

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Hydrofoil kiteboard

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By Brucecreations - 11/8/2014 6:52:55 PM

Hi all. I’d like to show you my lasts work about composites.

I’m very found in Hydrofoil kiteboarding, so in the past 10 years I do some models Smile

This is the last one. The idea was to build something different from the models on the market, an hydrofoil easy, stable, and possibly fast.

Some pictures:

http://www.talkcomposites.com/Uploads/Images/b0a055ee-411b-4900-87d5-6c7f.jpg

http://www.talkcomposites.com/Uploads/Images/a523129d-6af4-4588-ac41-e60f.JPG

http://www.talkcomposites.com/Uploads/Images/8fd55d0f-c812-4618-94ec-a2a8.jpg

http://www.talkcomposites.com/Uploads/Images/58ad087f-3cbf-463a-9489-ba58.jpg

http://www.talkcomposites.com/Uploads/Images/cfae7f93-d389-4376-9a24-0159.jpg

In this video you can see the first trials.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4AcEQYi5w

In this one the building process for the board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWn100jdyY0

An old version

I hope you like

At this moment a new one is growing Wink

By Brucecreations - 9/2/2015 8:37:37 PM

This suggest that it was made in single process

Yes, of course
To get an idea of how many layers I need for building a wing I start to cut many layers and laying them in the mould. The different shape is choose in order to fit at the wing's profile, more material in the centre, less in the leading and trailing edge. When the mold was full i try to close. I added layers until the two shells needed some pressure to close. (as I said it is an empirical method)

You mean full like this

Yes, the size is too small to make it hollow, you need the maximum rigidity available.