Bought some 6mm OD 4mm ID PU tube on eBay and tried it out today on my DIY bar. Worked like a charm! Glad I won’t be going through my 4mm Amsteel sheeting line so fast. No friction issues so far. Hardly noticed a difference. I have a bunch of extra tubing if anyone wants some.

Just to follow up on this and encourage anyone else thinking of giving a plywood surf foil a try, or any surf foil for that matter, do it! I’ve been riding it exclusively since first session and now that I’m dialed in, it’s awesome! I found I can actually push it almost as fast as my Stringy foil wi...

Because seat harnesses are better.

If strapless, you might try learning to ride with feet parallel and toes to the nose of the board like downhill ski. Then progress to more and more goofy from that. Or maybe that’s another layer and too complicated.

Brunel splice is great for many uses but not for precise lengths unless you’re very good at it. Sewn splices are much easier to get exact lengths. Or am I missing something?

I’ve been wanting to try a surf foil sized wing but couldn’t justify the cost of a new foil so I tried my hand at building one for my much loved Stringy foil. I glued 2 layers of already warped 1/2in plywood together and shaped with hand tools. I just shaped a airfoil that felt right, semi-symmetric...

I bent my Stringy foil fuse the same way running aground hard, about 2mm deviation. I just took it off, jumped on it a few times, and it’s good as new. Has lasted more than a year since with multiple more groundings.

Might be a safer option for off-shore days.

Can you pump a monofoil? Could you foil surf one and pump back out to the next wave?