Appletree Surfboards Appletree Mini Foil Kiteboard

2021 Appletree Mini Foil Kiteboard

Full Carbon Kite Foil Board

The Mini Foil is Appletree’s small and ultra light full carbon kite foil board. If you like cruising around and having the most fun on light wind days, this could be your board. All Appletree’s foil boards are made of full carbon. There is no glass fibre hidden underneath the carbon fibre. Carving, pumping, looping or sitting down, this board can handle it.

Easy to control

Appletree made this kite foil board super light and stiff, to give the best response. You can really feel the foil’s every move and control accordingly. Appletree’s experience in building the lightest and strongest carbon kiteboards to now also build the lightest and strongest carbon foil boards possible. In the standard configuration the 4’2 board is only 2.2KGs. But the smaller ones are even lighter. And all of this in a matte black stealth carbon finish as standard.

Foil Construction

50K Closed Cell Foam

It all starts with the core and every board Appletree makes starts with a foam core of their very own 50K closed cell foam. This foam is formalized exclusively for Appletree; it is not used in any other board in the market.

The foam can withstand 50.000 kg per square meter, while staying very light, and most of all very flexible. Another plus of the 50K foam is that it is closed cell, meaning that the foam will not take in water, and the board will not blow out when it gets hot.

100% Carbon Fiber Construction

All Appletree foil boards are produced in their 100% carbon fiber construction. You want carbon fiber in a foil board for its stiffness and strength. A stiff board will give you the best control and response from the foil. Also stiffness will make pumping the foil much more effective. With carbon fiber Appletree is able to make the board extremely strong while really light at the same time.

The most stress in a foil board is in the connection of the foil to the board. So this is where they put extra care and attention to make it the strongest connection available. The foil mount is CNC cut with the board for the highest precision. They only use Future’s Oneshot boxes as they are the strongest in the industry. The boxes are placed in a panel of ultra high density PET honeycomb. This PET honeycomb itself is sandwiched in carbon again, meaning there is carbon fiber both inside the board and outside. The honeycomb’s open structure ensures a solid connection between inside and outside, fusing everything together into a solid block.

Appletree’s lamination is completely different as well. They use a vacuum technique developed in house, where they layer all the carbon fiber and reinforcements on the board dry. Then they extract all the air from the bag and inject the epoxy resin under pressure. This results in the tightest lamination possible, with the best ratio between fiber and epoxy. It also gives 100% connection to the core so the boards do not delaminate. Extra patches under the feet prevent heel denting.

Inserts in Appletree’s foil range are made from blocks of high density material. These blocks are also fused to the core so they never pull out. (The 3’2 size does not include inserts.)