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Posted by Vincent Cannes on September 16, 19102 at 23:01:49:
I'm wondering if any of you out there have experience
with homemade boards.
I think if you are somewhat of a genius, and good with
decent woodworking skills and a couple of ok tools,
you should just construct your own windsurfing setup,
and completely byp all this "official" windsurfing crap.
First off, I think windsurfing boards are *way* too
expensive, sometimes costing upwards of $300-$400! To top
it off, there's all this total attitude from the "official"
riders. Often, I think boards are also far too
difficult to use.
So anyway there's a totally awesome and
ingenious way to make a perfectly functional windsurfing
rig super cheap that handles absolutely *perfectly* by
simply retrofitting an old skate board, hat rack stand,
and a few old sheets. I attach the hat rack to the board by
drilling a 3 1/4" hole, and attach it below with a glue
dowel. For fins, I was able to just use peices of other
skateboards cleverly broken into triangles. The hat rack
stand acts as a perfect mast, to which I intelligently
attach coat hangers (of various sizes) and some old sheets
such as to make a sail. With this simple board, I have
been clocked at speeds of over 20mph in some cases. Of
course, this was on still lake water. The open ocean is
somewhat different! If you do it right, you'll be laughing
at all the looks on the faces of those complete idiots
that spent all that money on a so called "real"
windsurfing setup.
Trust me. This comes from the guy who's DOING it.