Introduction

Firstly, a few caveats. Take everything I say with a pinch of salt, these are just my ideas thrown together. I don't really know what I'm doing in terms of either kite surfing or board making, I just decided I didn't want to spend $600 on a board that was made for $50 and I'm learning a lot in the process.

I'm a UK citizen living in Hawai'i, cause the weather's awesome and surf is better.
What this means is that my body and soul want to work in metric but my life and mind are now in imperial. I'll try and keep it consistent, but seriously, it's not hard to do the conversion.

1 inch * 0.3937008 = 1 cm
1 cm * 2.54 = 1 inch

If you've forgotten how to use a calculator, type '4 cm in inches' into google and you'll get the desired result.

Tools you want:
A Jigsaw is really a requirement- it'll take forever to get that nice first cut doing this by hand. Just get one - I didn't but I borrowed one off my neighbor.
A Drill - doesn't need to be cordless. you're going to have power cords everywhere with the sander, anyway so don't bother spending double the cash for a drill that runs out every 5 minutes.
A Planer is nice, but not really necessary
An Electric Sander - orbital is best, but I don't have one.
A Right Angle
A Level
Tape Measure
A Workbench (I use my lawn and a few boxes)
Clamps
A Very Sharp Knife
Painters Tape
Measuring Cups
Cheap Paint Brushes
Mixing Tongue Depressors
Rubber Gloves
Dust Mask
Goggles
Sand Paper - 60, 220, 400 and 620 in that order, except i never get around to the 620 polish, cause at that point it's just aesthetic and the wind came up.
1 Inch Hole Cutter
1/4" & 5/16"Drill Bit

Materials
Epoxy and hardener - I use about 4-5oz to 'wet' the wood per side, plus about 6oz per sheet of fiberglass.
6oz fiberglass cloth.
4ft x 8ft, 1/4" birch plywood. Birch is nice but any decent quality is good. Personally I think it's a waste of money to use marine ply as you're doing to spackle (wet) the wood with epoxy anyway.
Whatever colour pigment you want.
Rice paper for any design you want, to use this, simply painters-tape a piece to a normal piece of paper and you can print on it any design you like.
At least four 10-32 stainless steel tee nuts, if you want a handle and multiple foot positions, just get more tee-nuts. Don't cheap out and get zinc, they'll rust out in days, these stainless steel ones are about $1.50 each (I like the 10/32", 1/4" are unnecessarily large): these are the perfect ones...