When wintertime has come, we have to think about different expressions of windsurfing. And one of them is snowsurf (so we call it). Actually it’s possible to do a lot of crazy things with it, mostly fteestyle. It’s also possible to build a kicker and jump. Forwardloop is the first one witch we have tried, but there is a thought also about Pushloop!
Now I will try to describe how to attach windsurfing sail to snowboard without damaging the board. I made a drawing with the main measurements.
In the beginning I build one sail hold. So I can go one side in normal stance, other switch stance. And if I want to change she sides, I can turn the bindings to other side.
I used a 16mm plywood, necessary size 400x200mm peace of it. I chose to put Chinook two bolt mast base on the hold. Because the same I use on the water and it allows to change the screws for shorter.
I bought screws such as:
Special nuts for wood M8, 15.6mm x2 peaces and screw with six edges M6, 20mm x2, booth for mounting the mast base. Special nuts I put in the plywood and original Chinook screws I changed to shorter ones.
Cross driver screws for bindings M6, 35mm x4 peaces, wich I put instead of original binging screws. So I can put the plywood between snowboard and bindings.
There will come several pictures with manufacturing process:
Smoothen the front of the hold, so the snowboard will not be damaged when snowboard bends.
I made a depth for the nuts, so snowboard will not be scratched.
I made 10 6mm holes, so I can put the mast base in 3 different positions – P1, P2 and P3.
Hold weights 750 grams.
Here comes the magic result. Only thing remaining, I have to test it in the action :) But the distance between mast base and the middle of the bindings is already tested!
