Surfboard with your hands - instructions for the embodiment of dreams

In the article, we will talk about all kinds of surfers and how to make them yourself. In addition, we will tell experimenters and extremals about creating a board equipped with its own engine.

The boards are different

Surfs are divided into stability, maneuverability, functionality into several types:

1. Longboard. They look like a small boat, they are the most stable, so they are good for beginners, helping to keep the balance.
2. Minimalibu. Suitable for becoming a surfer's skills even more - on a voluminous and moderately long board it's easy to feel the wave.
3. Evolution. Already come to surfers making progress. They perfectly combine stability and maneuverability.
4. Ghana. Their element - the big waves. The most functional of the whole series.
5. Shortboards. Short and narrow surf for real pros. It is distinguished by its technical and maneuverability.

How to make a surfboard with your own hands

The most convenient in their own manufacture - fiberglass and epoxy-surf.

To do this, you need a polyurethane foam, polyurethane resin and fiberglass (the first option), or EPS-resin and a piece of expanded polystyrene (the second option). In both cases, you will need a long wooden bar - a future stringer, thanks to which the surfboard becomes hard.

With our own hands do them like this:

1. Cut the workpiece in half and insert the strip-stringer.
2. Give the shape board a shape that will affect the "character" of your board. At this stage, the length, width, thickness of the board, its appearance, the shape of its deck and bottom, rails, tail and nose are determined. The surfboard is made by the hands on the contours of wooden patterns. The shape is attached to it by saw, "nazhdachka" and plane.
3. Write on the already formed board the size and leave your signature - this is the tradition.
4. Mark the places for the fins and paint your creation
5. On top of the pattern, lay the fiberglass and begin the final stage - lamination. This is a uniform application of the resin board over the entire surface with a spatula. After it dries, drill holes for mortise and fins.
6. Polish the surfboard with "sandpaper", removing the resin residues, cover with a glossy resinous coating and leave to dry for a day.

All! Surfboard with your own hands is done.

Motor surfboard

The board for surfing with the motor with their own hands is made of simple, it is possible to say, improvised materials:

• Graphite polystyrene foam;
• Plywood (3-4 mm);
• Mounting foam with glue effect;
• And, in fact, the engine.

Instructions for work:

1. This design is most suitable form "fish". Put the foam in the outline of the "fish".
2. Do it in a groove in the dimensions of the hermetically sealed box, where the engine and PowerBank will be placed.
3. From the box and the motor should go a flexible shaft (from the drill, for example), to which you must attach a propeller. You can also build a steering wheel.
4. We advise you to use the engine from the pump is not weaker than 200 watts and 2800 rpm. As already mentioned, power to it will come from PowerBank (you can use either one or two batteries).
5. The motor must necessarily communicate with the batteries through the waterproof switch.

Here is a simple way to do a surfboard with your own hands. And we hope that this article will inspire you a little to create the surf of your dreams.