well i finally got goin after collecting thoughts at museums, here, ksusa, and mostly the water surfing just about every proven craft and kind of threw some ideas together. Earlier this week I did my first ever full rail roundhouse (i mean full on wrap around to floater all rail and a bit o fin to recover to keep goin for 50 yds) on my 6-10 liddle smoothie…way more difficult -need to be in the perfect spot on board and wave- to do than a standard shortboard…something that is really burnt in my brain right now!
this board is 5-5 x 22.25
4.5 inches nose rocker all in front third, rear 2/3rds dead flat.
resin research epox — bottom lamination is pre-meditated strips and staggered layers of 4 oz s- glass
the deck and topside of the rails are mostly 4 oz carbon to deal with compression stresses with some s thrown here and there
The bottom shell was made with: 2 full layers full 4 oz s, then 1 rear 3/4 board, then one rear half, then 2 laters flat oval kind of as a base for where the balsa spine bump is then 2 more even narrower ‘cigars’ even more centered where the center bump is. (all 4 oz s)
Then 8lb pour foam in rails with 36" 1/8" thick balsa stringers suspended in the foam (rear 2/3rds of board) of each rail.
Deck lam is 1 layer s just rear 2/3rds board each rail couple inches wide where foam meets bottom lam, then 4 layers carbon same width same place but all shortening in succession
down to just cover where the foam ends into laminate 6 inches up from the tail. Then some more reinforcement on the spine then a 3/4 full layer of s and 2 full layers of carb and thats it.
6 lbs
Wow look at that flat spot in the deck side left rail! When doin laborious madness such as grinding the too much poured pour foam I go into a frenzy of “good enough” sorry! well the water wont be riding the deck anyway and i could probably twist it to look right and take a photo haha just another test board anyway damn i need more patience sometimes
The finish, as all my shapes are, is lump and bump, but the big picture is there. The entry is only 4-6 layers thick (it transitions thicker rearward) so you get the variable single concave entry like ‘flexspoons’ old greeno edge. It actually ‘pops’
Then the spine is stiff and the rails are stiff, but in between the two its only like 6-8 layers thick but tapered between so it doesnt rocker nose to tail, but TWIST and I mean serious twist. The hulled rails actually twist up and around where your knee to ankle portion of leg will be. As well as like diagonal halfboard twist from spine to rail nose to tail Like if you tug on the rail only a foot from the tail, the twist effect goes all the way to the nose, you can see it tweak thru the variable concave entry…so I am stoked on the insanely complex lam schedule.
The funny thing is it may not even work good! still have to make fins and touch up release edge on bottom/sand
there are some warbles from the pour foam, but it will be interesting for sure, it has WAY more hull (but edged with inner hull running double concave all the way) but WAY more twist tweak flex than my first spoon, and 3 lbs less too. But it feels totally strong because of the rails and spine/better ingredients.
so i will post more pics/how it rides if i ever can finish the damned thing. thanks as always to everyone who ever has been stoked on messin with surfcrafts of all kind here and everywhere for sharing ideas etc
