![]() ![]() It feels great and does what you need it to do.įoiling made kiteboarding in light wind fun again. It allows you to pick up good speed when you want it. You get the stability and the float out of the wing, but you can feel it slice through the water with little resistance. Some added benefits to the rider… We use a larger surface area with less thickness. Go out and test our carbon foil next to an aluminum one in the surf and you will feel the difference right away. Also, we have designed it as smooth as we could make it to be constructed with the best material possible. So at the end of the day, you have a foil design with many iterations behind it. At the same time, I have been working for years on our eFoil designs which are very similar in design requirements. I have made several designs this last year and are obsessed with surf foiling. What makes Lift Surf/SUP foils so special?Īfter experiencing the exciting achievements of Kai Lenny with surf foiling, we jumped right in and got hooked. We are stoked on Surf and SUP foiling this year and proud to say we offer Lift products. Sailing, surfing and electric propulsion. We are branching out into different segments of the sport. ![]() Now it comes naturally and we can fine tune a design for a particular application. It took years of hard work and many, many prototypes to understand the different aspects of wing design. Things have become a lot more sophisticated and clean in design. Well… It wasn’t impeccable, but it certainly had a lot of hard work into it. That is awesome, almost 10 years now! We got our first kite hydrofoil from Lift around 2013 and it was impeccable quality and design back then. Between us and the French, things started to move forward in the world of hydrofoiling. There was also a small group in France that was working on the same. We were the first outfit in the Americas to be building composite hydrofoils. ![]() ![]() I started learning and working on my own gear right away. I met Carafino in 2008 and fell in love with hydrofoiling. The first composite foil out there for a commercial market was the Carafino. When did MHL start?Īnd when did you get on the Hydrofoil train? Hey Nick, Thanks for taking the time to talk with us today! Please tell be it was a 10ft longboard, lol.Tucker Interviews MHL's Co-Founder & Head Engineer Nick Leason The fact that the solid balsa board is 40lb, and the ideal weight I was thinking of for a chambered cedar was around 25lb, with 30lb being acceptable, this gives me some hope. I want to make a wood board if I get time somewhere, but I will not be able to afford balsa. Also check out the wood surfboard forum at You need to use the search function and look for balsa surfboards and chambered surfboards. Its a bit expensive, 'tho, you must know that. I believe there are several members here who have done what you are about to attempt. Swied is a member here who built a solid balsa board, no chambering, I think it came out at about 40 lbs. Chambering is when the board is shaped first, then cut into strips, and lightening holes or chambers are cut out of the pieces before they're glued back together. I don't think you need full length pieces, if you just stagger the joints. I build hollow wood boards, but not from solid balsa, and mine are planks (or balsa plywood) over a framework. ![]()
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