I'm installing some mast tracks in an buddies old Aguiera race board to learn on and could help but thinking... "cutting off some inches on the nose(huge rocker) would yield a fully functional wingboard."
Square rails and tails, around 80-100l.
anybody doing or do this trickery?

Martyman,I was having balance issues,so I had an old evoke 9'2" carbon converted to a foil sup.

So much fun in small waves,goes surprisingly well.

Ive also winged with it,it flys,hard to gybe or pump ,but it gives newbies confidence .

No need for them to worry about balance.

The only thing don't let it breech,I have and been really worried that I'd snap the nose of.

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Martyman,I was having balance issues,so I had an old evoke 9'2" carbon converted to a foil sup.

So much fun in small waves,goes surprisingly well.

Ive also winged with it,it flys,hard to gybe or pump ,but it gives newbies confidence .

No need for them to worry about balance.

The only thing don't let it breech,I have and been really worried that I'd snap the nose of.

Looks like a good enough start f SUP'ing. We now have an understanding that Winging and SUP'ing have differing requirements for optimal use. The reason I'm asking about old race boards is if modified they will be around 5'5 ish and 26 ish wide. seems like an ideal affordable wing board for in the know.

Buddy of mine in Seattle put a mast track in one and windfoils it when it's windy. Seems like a good shape.

I have an old square tail Roberts slalom windsurf board that I'm thinking I'll cut down to 6' and glue in some nose rocker once I get better at winging. It's about 26" wide, very thick and light.

Yeah, got a '10 111 Isonic ready to cut 30 cm off the tail and twin track foil box ready to chop.
Gonna bevel the tail.

Not a race board but cut front and back out of a 155 L starboard go , a bit too large but too lazy To off the sides ! 5 kgs and i think around 90 L because i'm 75 kgs and i'm just not under water .

Gunnar Biniasch tried winging on his old kite course race board , though he used the boards original deep Tuttle box and therefore needed to compensate for this by using a windfoil fuse. But it worked. Suggest checking his comments about the process in the video link below:

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Buddy of mine in Seattle put a mast track in one and windfoils it when it's windy. Seems like a good shape.

I have an old square tail Roberts slalom windsurf board that I'm thinking I'll cut down to 6' and glue in some nose rocker once I get better at winging. It's about 26" wide, very thick and light.

I have a Mikelab on the way that I will cut down to 5'1 ish(lots of rocker). 27 wide. 4 inch thick-I thnk it will be great for around here. I'll show you when I'm done, I'll bring it over to Esq.

Misleading.
That Zlab is a mid '90's Z-28-26, a course race board at least 4 years older than a Formula board of 100 cm width with 70+ tail.
Basically, it's a light wind slalom with lots of nose kick.
It will work well.

Course race kiteboards were between 85 to 105 liters.
Z-28 was around 135 liters, and 5" thick at the tail.

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Grantmac said..
Buddy of mine in Seattle put a mast track in one and windfoils it when it's windy. Seems like a good shape.

I have an old square tail Roberts slalom windsurf board that I'm thinking I'll cut down to 6' and glue in some nose rocker once I get better at winging. It's about 26" wide, very thick and light.

I have a Mikelab on the way that I will cut down to 5'1 ish(lots of rocker). 27 wide. 4 inch thick-I thnk it will be great for around here. I'll show you when I'm done, I'll bring it over to Esq.

I've got a 26" wide Roberts AVS I might do the same with. It doesn't have the volume for windfoiling, but I'm getting wing curious again.

No! Don't cut out the nose kick. Well not too much of it anyway.
I've found that my 7ft Coreban Hyper nose kick has saved me from tiny wave breaches. Plus purposeful nose dives when either thinking I was near breaching or running down sloppy wave swells or chop. The board just bounces back up for me to continue on.
Obviously the higher the wave & fast speed breach is going to nose dive & throw you.
I put this track box in this board when most people were making surf foil boards at much longer lengths a few years ago. I took the gamble & it paid off for me and still using it to this day & love it. It is a bit of a heavy barge to throw around but to carve & glide it's good. The nose kick soon stops pushing water as the board speeds up or when you pump & foil takes over.
I haven't used it yet for winging but will soon try it out.
I think your board at 26 Wide should be fine for winging. More stable than using it to just stand on whilst waiting for a wave if surf foiling. As I found out with my other JP 6ft 8" X 27 wide 95 litre foil board.

Conversion complete. once a 6ft mikes lab kite race board- now a 5ft winging board around 90L