Anyone going to Hood River soon ?

[grantmac]

If you don't care about cosmetics I'll sell you my hot mess of a foil board for half that much.

[telus022420]

I was told that this shop in HR will do a fin box conversion for $100 usd. Do your own due diligence.

http://northpacificsurf.com/

[LeopardSkin]

I think that's the shop that made Gale's board about 5 years ago.

[telus022420]

Interesting tech. Too bad the bottom of my board is not flat. Pretty impressive glue strength.

https://foilmount.com/blogs/installation/installation-update-1

https://youtu.be/2XZborU9BJc

[ezzylover]

I was told that this shop in HR will do a fin box conversion for $100 usd. Do your own due diligence.

http://northpacificsurf.com/

same thing I was told $150 by Ru, went there and they want $400 and only after the busy season....

[LeopardSkin]

Antoine Albeau recommends to try it on an old board. He says there's a good chance it'll be golden. And if it breaks, so what? It's an old board anyhow.

Bic Sport says all their boards are strong enough for foils.

[Brian C]

I believe what Bic says. We have owned a few of their boards and they have always been much more rugged than any of our recent "Cobra factory" boards which I find annoyingly fragile.
At the May swap in Hood River, Bart was saying that the Bic boards with deep Tuttle boxes ( only the more recent ones - all the older ones have their Trim Box) have been snapped up for foiling. It will be hard to find a Bic that doesn't need a box conversion but at least the boards tend to be cheap to buy.

[grantmac]

I would not trust any plastic fin box (all Chinook boxes) windfoiling unless it was tied into the top surface lamination (fin bolts not countersunk). This pretty much rules out any Cobra board. Even then only with a foil that has a flanged head like slingshot.
Actually I wouldn't use a non-flanged foil in any board that wasn't specifically made for it after seeing how much force it took to remove a Starboard foil from the matching board after just a mellow session. My slingshot just pulls out with zero force.