NEW WAVE

There was an idea I had in my mind but I didn't make up my mind to do it.
In 2009 I did a board super light for sailing only on wave riding and no jumps. The board was quite short and wide compares to the volume. It was 224 x 57 cm and 78l. The trick was it only weights 4,3 kg. So was strong enough for surfing but not too much for jumping and use it every single day.

So, I was trying how to figure out a board very wide on the tail and really short. I'd seen some boards in the past very short, as 2,05 or 2,10 m custom boards from Angulo, but I tried them and that was not what I was looking for. Also there was another board from AHD called Seal which was something into my thoughts. It seems also that Starboard is working in such a similar board and will be soon in production.
Finally I took this board and I cut the tail with a saw directly, closed it with fiberglass and went to the water.
I was highing with this board, It was nearly exact what I was looking for.
The back footstraps was closer to the tail and the quicktail straighter. but the feeling on the water was amazing. The bottom was a single concave from nose to tail although it was very comfortable on the choppy. About the rocker line it gone flatter so it seemed not to turn too much, but it was turning much better than before, not for the rocker line but the position of the back footstrap. The outline got straighter so that gave me more speed going down the line, and wide tail gave more lift at low speed.
So I thought about all these factors and how to combine them in order to work properly well and I decided to make a new board with some changes and a construction appropiated to use it every day and don't being worried for the life of the board.
I the mean time there were some surf boards from lost called "rockets" because of the kind of tail, with a straight outline and very wide tail and a deep single concave.
Many of the ideas of my shapes come from the surfing world.
So after one year I've developed a kind of boards indicated to enjoy these days when the conditions are very poor.
This is a shape to exploit days with short waves, get planing really fast, take good speed and jump easily. At the same time it allows to make an incredible carving and snap hard on the waves and try all the new movements on the wave as 360's backside, goyters and takas.
It's definitely a board very easy to use in all kind of conditions and a very wide use range.
Some sizes are:
216x55,5 cm 74l.
217x57,5 cm 79l.
218x59 cm 84l.
225x61 cm 98l.
220x62 cm 100l.

INTERVIEW IN CUTRADICAL

http://www.cutradical.com/es/noticias/killerfish-vamos-por-delante-de-las-tablas-de-serie

RoCkEt 1

218x58 cm.

83l.

5,6kg.

Biaxial Carbon Pro Construction.

RoCkEt 2

217x55,5 cm

74l.

5,7 kg.

Biaxial Glass -Kevlar construction

THUNDER

This time I've been playing with the same vinyl I used for the new logo stickers made with glossy silver flakes.

New Graphics

Recently ending up some new boards and trying a few challenges about decos.

I can figure the result out.

SUP 9'3'' X 30'' 125 L.

New SUP recently finished from KF factory.

It's the new prototype made in full sandwich and laminated 70% in Kevlar and 30% biaxial carbon.

Double sandwich in the footpad.

It has a custom handle made in carbon and it has very good gripping and it's easily lifted with one arm.

It has two plugs for leashes and 2 FCS plugs in order to use go-pro cam. 

It's 6,1 kg raw and 6,8 kg with pad.

Resistance test:

Handle:

Galdar

Last week we had a good session in the north shore of the island.
I used my biggest board, 219x59 90l and the ICON 5.0.
We were only four friends on the water, one of them ended up inside the pool next to the shore break which water the pool when the tide is high.
Pictures from: http://www.canarias-foto-surfers.com

225x54 cm 74l

Biaxial glass construction.
Textreme carbon and biaxial glass on deck.
Biaxial glass on bottom.
6.100 gr.

226x56 cm 79l

Biaxial glass kevlar construction.
Textreme carbon and biaxial glass on deck.
Biaxial glass on bottom.
Kevlar sandwich.
6.050 gr

227x58 cm 87l

Pro construction.
Biaxial carbon and hollow glass on deck.
Biaxial carbon on bottom.
Kevlar sandwich.
5,6 kg.

217x55,5 cm 74l.

Biaxial glass construction.
Carbon textreme and biaxial glass on deck.
Biaxial glass on bottom.
5,8kg

219x59 cm 90l

Pro construction.
Biaxial carbon and hollow glass on deck.
Textreme carbon on bottom.
kevlar sanwich.
5,8kg.

Details

Here some pics of the glossing for the carbon textreme in the bottom. 

The rest will be painted and polished in any jazzy color in order save some weight.

It's a pretty big board so it must be light, very important point in such a board like this.

I want it to feel it like a small wave board and not like a sailing boat.

TEXTREME LAMINATING

SE VENDE / FOR SALE

235X56 CM 80L

THRUSTER

What's going on KF?

I'm recently working on  five boards to complete my 6 set for this season.

The point is I decided to have 2 sets of different shapes, I mean, one will be the regular shapes I've been doing till now and other set of the shapes I'm developing this year which I love and I bet will be very successful in a short.

This boards are really compact wide and short, shaped on a flat rockerline and very wide tail which gives you lot of acceleration and planing but otherwise it has the back footstrap really backward giving a good ability to turn quite short.

Some of these ideas are extrapolated to the regular shapes as we have changed the position of footstraps further back and fins as well.

217x55,5

219x59

227x58

226x56

225x54

225x54

226x56

217x55,5 diamond tail

219x59

I+D

I'm working recently with this kind of carbon which takes less resin and promise to be more resistant, so the boards will be more reinforced and lighter than before. Opposite to other brands the price won't be affected. Day by day we find out new materials and we add them to the production in order to offer the best boards we are able to make.

NO WIND DAYS

It's saturday morning and there is no wind, but sunny, warm water and knee high waves.

No one on the break and a friend close to you for sharing the moment,

what else?

New Stickers

Finally here I have new fancy stickers for my sails.

 It took me long time to get exactly what I wanted although it was worth.

I did some more for the new prototypes.

It's a kind of silver flakes, very common on stickers for children.

Well, we grow up and the toys are more expensive, but remains the same.

SUPing in Pozo