hey guys,
I'm studying engineering at uni and trying to come up with a final year project to do.
I'm kind of keen to make a hydrofoil board (like in the link) for surfing or maybe kiting but I can't really just make it - I need a purpose or aim for it.
Anyone have any ideas??
Basically Im trying to find a way I can go surfing or kiting for uni 
First idea is to ask this in a relevant forum. Clearly not much researching is going on here.
I have posted it in the other forums too, just put it in this one as an after thought, in case there might be a windsurfer who has something interesting to say.
thought windsurfers were meant to be the friendly bunch...
why waste your time replying if you're going to be a dick about it? I'm not asking for you to do my project, or something thats going to revolutionize the world, just thought someone out there may have an idea on something interesting to check out.
If you really want to do something interesting and worthwhile for your project you could no better than looking at the engineering of the Vestas Sailrocket that has just smashed the world speed sailing record. Google it and if not amazed maybe engineering isn't really your thing. By extension you maybe able to come upo with a comparative craft that uses a kite in lieu of a fixed wing.......just a thought.
There you go....a windsurfer being friendly and constructive.
For ideas try this :
www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/Windsurfing/General/SB-Community-OEM-board/
edit : ^^^ beat me to it !!!
haha
hmmmm final year at uni, probably makes you around 21-22ish...Gen Y......
Geny Y the hell do I have to do it when someone else can do it for me [}:)]
It would be an idea to try a foiling windsurfer that has angled foils. Look up the foils on Hydrotere, there is merit in more development in this area. Not to challenge the speed record but for stability and control.
The existing windsurfing foils are limited..... same as a foiling moth.
Probably take more than a year of research and then trial etc.
Go to Google patents and search for hydrofoil surfboard. Something like this. patents.google.com/patent/US7144285 Look at each of the "citations" and "referenced by" documents.
Then don't call me for a job when you've graduated.
But then again, 'the youth of today' don't like short hair.....they all wanna be just like the Bieber 
You are at University and you
Noted your from SA (How is Curt Tippit
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Got a story
Back in the olden days 1988 -1990s a uni student did this project.
Cut loose surfboards Rod, Wessel, Shane Oc made a windsurfboard, with all the specifications the student had engineered ,which obviously included all the mounting points for the hydrofoils, which he designed and had made up.
I remember a fair bit of buzz surrounded the project at the time.
I did see the foils which were very expensive relative to a uni students budget etc etc spectacular to.
No one had even thought of such a thing before this
As i can remember one of the early test day was at Goowla lakes(shallow water) you know down the river mouth way .Things briefly went to plan before one of the hydrofoils struck the bottom and was lost in the muddy water .
Project foiled
Lighten up people! I am studying engineering as well and most people just get given the project. The main aim is NOT to think of one.
And a way bigger crime than using a forum for ideas (if it is one) is using a forum to b*&ch and moan.
I find that before criticizing a whole generation we should think of what we were doing at their age: were we all so responsible, hard working, organized as we expect them to be now?
A short while ago I was at at Windsurfing WA dinner where there were a lot of young male freestylers. Most were single so they had invited members of the "Kitechicks" to come and join them at the dinner. The Kitechicks replied that windsurfers were so rude to them at the beach they did not want to come.
Is that the reputation you want as windsurfers?
Now this young fella has asked an innocent question on this forum and as far as I can see has had only one helpful response. Now he may be guilty of being part of the younger generation (which is always perceived as being lazy and the downfall of the world as we know it) but he at least deserves some respect and politeness. All he has learnt is that windsurfers are an embittered bunch of unhelpful B's. No wonder most of the youngsters are taking up kiting!
How about helping to improve the image of windsurfing by being polite to newcomers on the forum. Treat him as you would your own son if he was asking for ideas. Then he might be happy to spend hours designing something which may revolutionise the sport we love.
