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...<substantial portion deleted>...I tried and tried to get barreled this morning on my knee board but kept getting pushed face first toward the shallow reef. I had a helmet on, but my nose, mou ...

My guess is that one adjusts the buoyancy of the wing so that it is positive, but not so great that one is unable to dive with it. Once submerged, the buoyancy of the wing (if properly angled upward) ...

...<snipped>... Here's something on Rich Miller's sailboard for those of you that liked the sound of that idea.

http://www.foils.org/miller.htm

P.S. Is he by any chance closely related to ...

...<snipped>... would you please explain "ventilated?" I'm also curious about the reverse thickness of the front foil. I've read that canard foils are sharper on the leading edge for manuevera ...

Here's one

http://www.rodndtube.com/paipo/hydrofoil/paipo_hydrofoil.shtml

and another

http://www.iav.com/%7Esponge/stuff/gilbert.htm

...and another:

http://www.rodndtube.com/paipo/Gaylo ...

Poobah wrote:

"...<snipped>..."Sparkling Clean for your protection" was one of the great lies of the 20th century...<snipped>... "

...nevertheless, apparently less contaminated wi ...

Thanks for the info on the bodyboard rider.

Well, wave period is not an unambiguous signal of wave size. Although a long dominant period requires significant fetch and duration, as well as wind speed, in order to be created--thus also producing ...

Not counting impacts with the bottom...

Shoulders and elbows seem to be stressed the most for me when paipo boarding.

Shoulders and elbows and lower back when bodyboarding (I read an interview ...

They do look like they're having fun though!
High percentage of "displacement" type hulls!

Sure looks very similar to an aquaplane (towed by a powerboat) that dad and I built in the late 40's or early 50's (and commonly referred to then as a "surfboard"). However we steamed the lumber a ...

I just can't reisist a cheap board...<snipped>... Very Happy

Look for an inexpensive board, not a cheap one Smile

This will be an interesting experiment with--as you noted--lots of possible variations. Do you plan to pursue some of these variations? Are you going to glass on the fins/foils, or use boxes?

One d ...

Roy,

Actually, what I had in mind was "slip" in regard to gliding flight. But you clarified what you mean by the term--it's essentially a measure of the component of the motion of the fin/wing/obj ...

Roy

I'm having a problem with understanding what you mean by the term "slip". Would you please elaborate on that (or give a precise definition)?