Welcome to Stelios' webpages!
Board building and Fin making pages are up again!!!
Programs (home made)
Sledmaker
is a small program I wrote in C that creates CAD plans for single skin sled kites (inflatables).
Fin Designer, a program for creating 3d plans for symmetrical (windsurfing) fins
Kites
Rev2 - My almost commercial inflatable kite
(plans to make it yourself)
Shaped kite skin calculations
- How to calculate the shaped skin of kites (strictly IMHO)
Materials for inflatable bladders
How to make inflatable bladders using polyethylene, paper tape and a soldering iron
Thoughts on the Wipika patent...
Kitesurfing on low budget
Ikaros - 10.5 AR4.5 inflatable built from scratch ffor kitesurfing (with plans you can use to make it yourself).
Using Finite Element Analysis to calculate the in-flight canopy shape of a sled kite
How to improve your Enhanced Nasawing's performance (my modifications)
Foil kite building (Eliminator)
- My first 4 sq.m. Eliminator with valves to be used for kitesurfing (in Greek, but with lots of construction photos)
Kite Buggy - Mountainboard
Pictures of my (never finished) PVC buggy
Making your own Mountainboard (article never got finished)
Windsurfing
Foostrap making
(in English)
??? ?? ???????? ??????? - Footstrap making
(in Greek)
Making a vacuum bag adaptor (for composite materials construction using a vacuum pump)
Board building (the wrong way)
- How I made my first wide windsurf board (in Greek and in English)
Fin making
- How to make fiberglass fins for windsurf boards
Other stuff
Links
Tips on web authoring (old but maybe worth reading)
Feel free to send ideas and comments at
reystos@yahoo.com
Updated: Wednesday, 22 November 2006