hey guys what up now in this video
i'm going to explain how to turn your inflatable stand-up paddleboard into a beginner wing setup
so your standard inflatable paddleboard has fins at the back of the board now if you want to enable
your paddleboard to track upwind with a wing you need a center board an old windsurf board works
great with the big dagger board that goes through the middle of the board that provides a resistance
against the wing to enable you to drive the board upwind if you just get on a normal sup without
a center board and you hold a wing then you just disappear off downwind and that sucks because then
you have to do the walk of shame all the way back up the easiest way to learn how to wing if you
can't hydrofoil is to use a board with a center plate now most people have inflatable paddleboards
so in this video i'm going to show you how to stick your own fin to a sup so you can have a
go it's the best way for someone that doesn't know anything about the wind to learn about how
it works how to harness the wind how to balance on a standard paddleboard alone because that's hard
enough what you need for this conversion is a fin now i bought this pretty big fin um how big it is
you can see as opposed to my head my head is that big the fins that big and it comes with this track
sticky track that i'm about to stick to the board i just got this off amazon
um for like 20 quid slingshot are actually coming out with this uh crossbreed sup that actually
already has a center board in i'm gonna get one of those but i just haven't got one yet so this
is what i'm gonna do in the meantime there's also this sup window which you can attach but you can
only attach that to a solid sup now this is my first time doing this but my friend has done it
successfully and he's lent me the glue so let me show you what glue you need i've got some
trade grip pvc it's basically super strong contact adhesive and apparently using this additive makes
it especially um sticky basically and also apparently just contact adhesive in salt water
will eventually come unstuck but there's a few things that you can do
to make sure you get the best stick possible and that's what i'm going to show you in this video
so here's what else you need you need some cleaning solvent to clean off the area you
need a little bit of sandpaper because things tend to stick better when you make them slightly
rough and a tape measure to make sure you've got it in the middle of the board and a pencil
as well so you can mark out on the board where it's going to go now first up i'm going to place
the track that i'm sticking down to where i think is the middle of the board and i've actually
already measured it but i'm basically going to put it bang in the middle of the board there and
then i've used this pencil to pencil around there so that's where i'm going to place it right there
next thing is i'm gonna slightly sand this making it i'm just putting some scratches
on it now that makes it stick better now i'm gonna use the solvent to clean off the area
and then what you're actually going to do
is you mix up the glue you apply it to both surfaces and then you let it dry
you let it dry for like 10-15 minutes and then you do it again and the second time is when you stick
it together this will create a much stronger bond and it's really important they do that
as you can see i've applied the contact adhesive with the additive
to both surfaces now i'm going to let that go off for about 10-15 minutes my standard bodge job
i've got grass in it i rubbed off the pencil but you know we're gonna get there we're almost there
right 10 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes has passed the contact adhesive has gone off
it's completely touch dry now i'm going to go ahead mix up some more glue add the
additive for the second round and commit to sticking the fin on the board let's go
so seems to be working sticking this is the first time i've done this so
yeah seems to be working quite well it's probably sticky um
it's obviously good with pressure and heat so you want to do it on like a warm day and keep applying
pressure to it because that will help all the contact diseases stick together so here we have it
oh yeah