Show off your Franken-Foil (Frankenstien Foil)

[droffats]

Odd matchups, homemade SUP foils, handmade wood foils on carbon decks, etc. Post up.

[Hugh2]

For a while two years ago, frustrated with trying to learn to get to toeside, I mounted my original Slingshot Hoverglide foil on a friend's rubber-top long Naish surfboard. I knicknamed my Frankenfoilboard "The Swede". As shown it was on a 24" mast, but I graduated to 36" mast using this setup. I used a cutting board to provide additional strength to the mountain plate to avoid tearing the bottom of the surfboard. It worked well for the purpose of doing touch-down gybes versus crashing on every transition. Last year I moved on to a Slingshot Converter surfboard that works fine the same way, and finally have recently managed this year to get flying gybes to toeside and back to heelside on a Dwarfcraft. I'm a slow learner at 64 years old, so having the ability to touchdown if necessary helped a lot.

[nixmatters]

Slightly off-topic... not really a Frankenfoil, but I guess worth sharing. Built by a friend, I help him out with the carbon/innegra cloth.

Will post some proper Frankenstuff these days!

[jumptheshark]

That is a pretty tight looking set up!

[grigorib]

The ugliest shit I saw was in Hood River of an alleged local gear thief. A friend got his foil stolen from event site and parole officer (the guy one assigned) recovered the board (only) from guy’s possession after the dumbass showed up with the stolen board on the beach with his own asshat foil bolted in. He had serial number washed off the board and replaced with number which didn’t exist in Slingshot inventory and his own name written all over the bottom. Little did he know we had pictures of specific dents on the board.
Someone post his board pic.

[Greenturtle]

Great topic.
After picking through the closeout boneyards here’s what “came alive” for me:

the naish fuse slot fit a slingshot mast after very minimal dremel work to the tail edge of the slot, drilling new bolt locations. Now she accepts both

Rocket wakesurf board cost peanuts and is lighter than foil version. It loves having a foil bolted to it. ‘Give me more’ it says, ‘im hungry’

[vakiter]

this has to be win ugliest.
chopped and tucked old fanatic kiteboard with a thru-bolted clearwater foil and a stringy-like plywood wing.
is really light . worked ok for free-ride.

[airsail]

Older Lift foil fitted with a Moses 633 copy, works great, full carbon so no maintenance.

[nixmatters]

How about this one?
We called the board - the soap bar