The foils are all here. They all need some work, but at least they are here. Lets start with the rudder horizontal. This is a nice Bladerider foil that got into "an incident with a power boat". The tip of the foil got cracked and the foil is scratched up quite a bit. Originally I was going to just put some extra carbon on and call it good, but now I have a better idea. The damaged area was very compressible and seemed like the core must have been totally crushed. So instead of reinforcing the outside I'm going to drill into the the foil and then inject epoxy in to replace the core. Then with a bit of fairing and some paint it should be good as new.
The rest of the foils will take a bit more work. They should turn out great, but they are less than completed. The foils are in two halves at the moment. The main foil and the rudder foil came out of the same mold, the only difference being that the main foil is constructed with more carbon than the rudder. I'm going to try and fit the rudder foil into the Bladerider socket. All I should need to do is shape the end and fit a bolt into it then attach the two halves.
The main foil will be a bit more involved. The main foil need have a bunch of mechanical bits fit inside of the foil. At this point I'm not even really sure how to make this happen. Better call Gui.
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