Kleb's Board Building: Design(?)

(The following contain the raw data used to generate this plot: erock265.dat, owave262.dat, and kleb264.dat.)
Unless you have really put a lot of thought into the elements of board design, the best bet for your first few boards is to copy an existing model that you like. The first board we made was a very rough copy of a Fox 8'6" bump and jump board. (We measured it on a picnic table with a marked boom tailpiece and used the handles of a pair of channel lock pliers as a thickness guage.) This board is turning out to be somewhere between a Bic Electric Rock and a Protech Onshore Wave with a lot less volume in the aft portion due to the blank that we're stuck with. The above image shows a comparison of the boards.

In summary,

The overlength is around 264cm (8'8").
The planform is a straight average of the Onshore Wave and the Electric Rock.
The thickness/volume was also supposed to be an average, but the old 8'11" Clark blank that we had around was too thin to accomodate.
The rails are very similar to the Onshore Wave. (Data is available on the Shaping page.)
The rocker is similar to the Electric Rock, but with slightly more nose rocker. (Again, a by-product of the old blank that we had on hand.)
Slight vee.

If you're interesting in computer-aided design, there are at least two pieces of sailboard design software out there in cyberspace: Shape 3D and DAT Designer. Currently, however, they are only for those afflicted with PCs.

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Last modified: Fri Jul 31 23:30:50 EDT 1998