Build Your Own Carbon Wingfoil Board — The Step-by-Step Guide

Dreaming of building your own carbon wingfoil board but don't know where to start? This guide tells the complete story of building a 6'1 x 26" carbon wingfoil board with a partial PVC sandwich, step by step and with photos, from the raw foam blank to the first session.

It is not a summary: it is an amateur's complete workshop log, with the methods actually used, the resin weighed at every step, the mistakes to avoid and the tricks learned along the way.

**What's inside**

- 163 pages and over 300 photos and diagrams

- 11 chapters, in the real order of the build:

 1. Introduction and materials (tools, resins, cloth, consumables, workshop)

 2. Preparing the shape: mounting plate, US boxes, braces, handle and leash plug

 3. Choosing your lamination method (wet lay-up or vacuum, sandwich, cloth)

 4. Bottom: reinforcement patches and lamination

 5. Deck: preparation and partial PVC sandwich

 6. Deck: inserts and leash plug

 7. Deck: main lamination

 8. Opening the boxes and sanding

 9. Filler coat and decoration

 10. Logo, hot coat, finishing and pad

 11. Epilogue: review, weigh-ins and back on the water

- A mixes summary table at the end of every chapter (resin, hardener, fillers, ratio to cloth)

- The board's weight tracked at every step, from the 2.3 kg blank to the 6.7 kg finished board

- Vacuum bagging explained step by step, with a homemade vacuum pump (its build tutorial is on the Shape-Lab website)

- Dozens of links to selected videos and resources

**Who is it for?**

DIY riders who want to build their first composite board, and those who have already shaped and want to move on to carbon and vacuum bagging. No lamination experience needed, but a minimum of tools and patience, yes.

**Format**

PDF to download straight after purchase, readable on computer, tablet and phone. The photos are high resolution: zoom in to see the details. Metric units throughout. Translated from the original French edition; some of the shops, videos and groups mentioned are French.

This guide is for your personal use. Please don't share it: it represents hundreds of hours of work.