Techno Foil FW Team Series Carbon 12K Clear Prepreg

Team Series Technology: 12K clear carbon prepreg

Key Features

High-end prepreg carbon construction engineered to maximize stiffness, efficiency, precision, and durability.
TORAY M40J High Modulus carbon combined with Intermediate Modulus fibers to achieve the optimal balance of mechanical performance, strength, and retail value.
12K clear carbon finish that is technical, premium, and visually expressive, showcasing the wing's carbon architecture.
Custom-molded high-density hydrophobic foam core to reduce weight, provide structural support, minimize water absorption after impacts, and ensure perfect manufacturing repeatability.
Pre-impregnated prepreg fibers, allowing precise control of fiber content and the fiber-to-resin ratio.
Engineered layup schedules designed around real mechanical loads: bending, torsion, compression, pumping, carving, acceleration, connection loads, and repeated fatigue cycles.
Multi-axis carbon layup combining UD, 0°/90°, ±45°, triaxial fabrics, and localized reinforcements to maximize stiffness exactly where it is needed.
Ultra-high-precision steel molds, machined on in-house 5-axis CNC equipment, ensuring every wing is identical from the first production piece to the last.
High-pressure molding in heated presses with carefully controlled curing and cooling cycles to optimize the composite's mechanical properties.
Precision finishing in dedicated clean-room environments, including meticulous inspection of trailing edges, surface quality, and connection interfaces.
V3 SuperLock self-locking connection, manufactured to extremely tight tolerances for a rigid, reliable, and silent assembly.
A Team Series carbon construction engineered to deliver greater speed, more direct power transfer, and unlock the full potential of the new V3 Atmo wing designs.

Team Series Carbon: Stiffness, Precision and Efficiency

Team Series technology is the performance core of the V3 Atmo range. It features a high-end 12K clear carbon prepreg construction engineered to deliver greater stiffness, faster response, higher precision, and superior efficiency than a fiberglass construction.

The objective goes far beyond reducing weight or showcasing a premium carbon finish. The goal is to transfer rider input more directly to the wing, minimize unwanted flex, control torsional deformation, and preserve the hydrodynamic profile exactly as designed, even under heavy loads.

On a hydrofoil, stiffness is not a luxury. A wing that bends or twists excessively changes its local angle of attack, alters its effective profile, loses efficiency, becomes less precise, and can produce vague or inconsistent feedback. A Team Series carbon wing maintains its intended working shape far more accurately, resulting in a foil that feels cleaner, faster, and more efficient.

The Team Series delivers an exceptionally crisp riding feel: less delay between rider input and foil response, reduced energy loss while pumping, greater precision through turns, improved stability at high speed, and a more direct connection between the rider and the foil.

High-Modulus & Intermediate-Modulus Carbon

The V3 Atmo Team Series front wings combine TORAY M40J high-modulus carbon fiber with carefully selected intermediate-modulus fibers. This blend delivers an outstanding balance of stiffness, strength, responsiveness, durability, and retail price.

High-modulus carbon features an exceptionally high Young's modulus, meaning it deforms far less under load. It is therefore ideal for reinforcing the areas that demand maximum rigidity: the center section, high-bending zones, torsion-critical areas, the connection interface, and the structural layers responsible for transmitting rider input with maximum precision.

Intermediate Modulus carbon complements this architecture by providing strength, mechanical resilience, and long-term durability. A foil wing is subjected to repeated loads, heavy rider inputs, rapid accelerations, pumping cycles, high-load turns, and occasional impacts. The objective is therefore to build a composite that delivers outstanding performance without becoming excessively brittle.

This combination of High Modulus and Intermediate Modulus carbon is one of the defining features of the Team Series. It maximizes performance while avoiding a wing that is unnecessarily fragile, prohibitively expensive, or overly specialized.

Custom-Molded Hydrophobic Core

Every Team Series front wing is built around a high-density hydrophobic foam core. This foam provides structural volume, reduces overall weight, improves buoyancy, minimizes water absorption in the event of an impact, and contributes significantly to the wing's overall stiffness.

It is not simply an off-the-shelf foam block that is machined and inserted into the wing. It is produced and controlled within our own manufacturing process to guarantee perfectly consistent density, geometry, and repeatability. Every wing model and every size has its own dedicated steel foam mold, allowing us to create the exact core required.

This core is fundamental to a carbon composite construction. It increases the effective structural thickness without adding unnecessary weight. The carbon laminates work more efficiently, the structure becomes stiffer, and the foil maintains a weight perfectly matched to its intended performance.

During the heated molding process, the core also contributes to the internal consolidation of the composite. As it reacts under temperature, it helps press the carbon plies firmly against the mold, resulting in a compact, homogeneous, and structurally optimized part.

Prepreg Construction and Fiber Volume Control

Every carbon reinforcement used in the V3 Atmo Team Series foils is manufactured using prepreg technology, meaning the fibers are pre-impregnated with resin before layup. We do not use dry fabrics wetted inside the mold, as that process cannot achieve the level of precision required for a foil.

Prepreg construction allows precise control of the fiber-to-resin ratio, directly influencing weight, compaction, stiffness, shear strength, torsional rigidity, final laminate thickness, mechanical consistency, and curing quality.

In any composite structure, performance depends primarily on the fiber volume fraction—the actual proportion of structural fibers relative to the resin. The fibers carry the loads; the resin simply binds them together, transfers stresses between them, and stabilizes the laminate without adding unnecessary weight.

Too much resin makes the wing heavier while reducing its mechanical efficiency. Too little resin creates dry spots, weak bonding, and structural defects. The objective is therefore not to "add resin for strength," but to place precisely the right amount of resin around fibers that are correctly oriented.

GONG pushes this level of control even further by producing our own prepregs in-house. We select our dry fibers, impregnate them with the resin specifically formulated for each mechanical program, control the resin content, store the material under refrigerated conditions, then CNC-cut and lay up every ply according to our proprietary stacking schedules.

This capability is exceptionally rare in the foil industry. It requires genuine composite manufacturing infrastructure, strict storage procedures, tightly controlled processing times, advanced materials expertise, and production volumes large enough to justify these investments. It allows us to define the composite itself instead of adapting our designs to standard industrial materials. Every material is engineered specifically for the wing, its intended use, our calculations, our testing, the expected loads, and the riding feel we want to achieve.

Engineered Layup Schedules

The carbon reinforcements are not laid by intuition, habit, or simple experience. Our layup schedules are engineered using simulation software based on the actual mechanical loads experienced by the foil: bending, torsion, compression, connection loads, pumping forces, carving loads, acceleration, landings, impacts, and repeated fatigue cycles.

Fiber orientations and distributions are precisely defined for every area of the wing. Unidirectional (UD) fibers carry the primary loads, 0°/90° fabrics stabilize the structure, ±45° and triaxial reinforcements control torsional deformation, while localized reinforcements strengthen the connection areas and other high-load zones.

This optimized layup strategy places material only where it contributes to performance. High-load areas are stiffened to maximize power transfer, critical zones are reinforced, controlled compliance is preserved where it improves durability, and unnecessary weight is eliminated.

Every carbon ply is CNC-cut to guarantee perfect geometry, orientation, and positioning. This level of precision minimizes manufacturing variability, excessive laminate thickness, air pockets, dry areas, resin-rich zones, and performance differences from one wing to another.

This is how we achieve a carbon wing that is simultaneously exceptionally stiff, highly precise, and extremely durable. Performance comes from intelligent fiber architecture, not from simply adding more material.

Central Stiffener and Structural Reinforcement

The Team Series front wings incorporate a dedicated structural reinforcement architecture designed to maximize stiffness without compromising weight. Depending on the model and its intended loads, this construction includes a central stiffener along with strategically positioned localized reinforcements that lock in the primary load paths.

This central reinforcement becomes particularly important on high-aspect wings or large-span designs. The longer a wing becomes, the greater the bending and torsional forces it must withstand. Without sufficient structural rigidity, the foil loses precision, efficiency, and riding feel.

The objective is to ensure that the wing behaves exactly as it was designed to. The profile remains clean, lift characteristics stay consistent, pumping becomes more efficient and rider input is transmitted instantly without delay.

This structural reinforcement is one of the defining advantages of the Team Series. It delivers a foil that feels more direct, more responsive, and more stable under load while maintaining an optimized weight.

Precision Steel Molds and Absolute Repeatability

The V3 Atmo Team Series front wings are manufactured using ultra-high-precision steel molds. This is a rare industrial choice in the foil industry, as steel molds are significantly more expensive than aluminum molds. The raw material itself is costlier, machining takes considerably longer, and the tooling requires a much higher level of manufacturing expertise.

However, steel offers one decisive advantage: it maintains its precision over time. While aluminum molds gradually wear, lose their sharpness, deform, or drift out of tolerance, steel molds continue producing foils that are virtually identical from the very first part to the very last.

For GONG, this level of repeatability is essential. Every foil must deliver the same profile, the same trailing edge geometry, the same connection fit, the same stiffness, and the same riding characteristics, regardless of when it was produced.

Our molds are machined on our in-house 5-axis CNC machines, ensuring complete quality control while protecting the confidentiality of our proprietary designs. This level of precision is essential for faithfully reproducing hydrodynamic profiles, thickness distributions, transitions, connection geometries, and trailing edges with exceptional accuracy.

On a hydrofoil, just a few tenths of a millimeter can influence glide, stall behavior, noise, ventilation, or stability. Tooling precision is therefore a true performance factor, not simply an aesthetic detail.

Heated Presses and Controlled Curing Cycles

Each wing is molded under very high pressure in heated presses. Temperature, pressure, cycle duration, and cooling are all precisely calibrated to maximize the mechanical properties of the composite.

The objective is to produce a laminate that is compact, homogeneous, fully cured, dimensionally stable, and capable of maintaining its mechanical properties over time. The performance of a carbon composite depends not only on the fibers themselves, but also on how they are compressed, heated, cured, and cooled throughout the manufacturing process.

Cooling is equally critical. A composite part should not simply leave the mold with the correct shape. It must retain its dimensions, stiffness, and alignment after demolding.

Controlled cooling cycles help achieve this stability while minimizing internal stresses that could otherwise distort the part or alter its mechanical behavior. On a thin, high-performance carbon wing, this level of process control is fundamental.

12K Clear Carbon Finish and Post-Molding Precision

The 12K clear carbon finish is the visual signature of the Team Series. It showcases the wing's carbon structure with a clean, technical, and premium appearance. The material itself is on display. The weave, the quality of the layup, and the precision of the manufacturing process are all clearly visible.

This finish is far more demanding than a painted surface because it conceals nothing. Ply placement, weave consistency, surface quality, and the final finish must all meet exceptionally high standards. An exposed carbon finish requires uncompromising visual and manufacturing precision.

After molding, every part undergoes an extremely precise finishing process in dedicated clean-room environments, where raw molded components are transformed into finished products meeting the exacting V3 Atmo standard. Trailing edges, surface finish, transition areas, radii, and connection interfaces are carefully refined and individually inspected.

This stage is critical. A thin, perfectly consistent trailing edge reduces parasitic drag, noise, vibration, and efficiency losses. On a hydrofoil, these details have a direct impact on the rider's feel on the water.

The clear carbon finish is both a defining element of the Team Series visual identity and an integral part of its performance philosophy. It demands a more rigorous manufacturing process, showcases the carbon structure, and perfectly complements the range's design brief: greater efficiency, sharper response, higher precision, and a more direct riding feel.

V3 SuperLock Connection

The connections are manufactured and controlled with the highest level of precision. The V3 SuperLock self-locking system requires extremely tight tolerances to perform flawlessly: the front wing must fit perfectly, lock securely under load, remain completely rigid while riding, and still be easy to disassemble after the session.

This mechanical precision has a direct impact on the riding feel. A connection that moves, develops play, or transfers loads inefficiently compromises even the best wing design. Conversely, a perfectly fitted, rigid connection allows the foil to deliver its full performance potential.

The V3 SuperLock connection requires only two screws beneath the front wing. Installation is simple, fast, and reliable. The more load applied to the wing during riding, the more securely the connection locks itself into the fuselage.

It is a system engineered for performance, but also for everyday practicality: fewer screws, less play, greater stiffness, and simpler assembly.

Digital Engineering and Team Validation

Every wing is designed in 3D, digitally optimized, and then validated in real-world riding conditions. Hydrodynamic and structural simulations allow us to refine airfoil sections, structural loads, flex characteristics, torsional behavior, and stress concentrations before the first prototype is ever manufactured.

The prototypes are then extensively tested on the water by the GONG Team to validate their real-world performance and riding feel: takeoff, glide, stability, forgiveness, carving, pumping, speed, low-end performance, top-end control, and behavior within their intended disciplines.

This validation is essential. A foil can appear perfect in simulations yet still fail to deliver the right feeling on the water. The Team Series is developed to transform calculated performance into tangible sensations: drive, control, speed, acceleration, fluidity, grip, forgiveness, and efficiency.

Mechanical Test Benches and Proactive Quality Control

GONG also uses proprietary mechanical test benches specifically developed to evaluate the demands placed on our foils. These systems allow us to continuously monitor production quality by measuring stiffness, strength, connection integrity, bending, torsional rigidity, and manufacturing consistency.

A hydrofoil is subjected to enormous and repeated mechanical loads. Quality cannot rely solely on visual inspection, final checks, or warranty feedback, we take a proactive approach.

Mechanical testing allows us to compare production batches, validate design improvements, verify structural limits, and ensure every wing leaving the factory meets the performance standards we have established. This is an industrial process, not a craft-based one.

World-Class Manufacturing Standards

This industrial approach is built upon exceptionally high standards. The engineers, manufacturing teams, and technical partners behind the V3 Atmo range come from industries where precision and reliability are absolute requirements: aerospace, aviation, defense, high-performance sailing, and cutting-edge hydrofoil development.

The result is a foil range manufactured to an exceptional standard: all-new shapes, precision steel tooling, tightly controlled prepregs, engineered layup schedules, heated high-pressure molding, exposed clear carbon finishes, mechanical quality testing, and extensive on-water validation.

The Team Series embodies this philosophy by delivering high-performance carbon foils capable of outstanding performance, while maintaining exceptional value through our production scale, direct-to-rider business model, in-house expertise, and integrated manufacturing.

The Team Series DNA

The V3 Atmo Team Series front wings combine all-new shapes with 12K clear carbon prepreg construction, High Modulus and Intermediate Modulus carbon fibers, custom-molded hydrophobic foam cores, engineered layup schedules, ultra-precision steel molds, tightly controlled manufacturing processes, and the V3 SuperLock mechanical connection system.

It is the accumulation of these often invisible details that gives the Team Series wings their distinctive character: outstanding stiffness, direct response, speed, glide, precision, silence, stability, repeatability, and complete confidence underfoot.

The Team Series is designed for riders who want more than an easy foil. It is for those seeking a foil that is more capable, more precise, more responsive, and more dynamic, fully unlocking the performance potential of the new V3 Atmo shapes.