Start a new surfboard long build. Not often those days, most of my friends stop surfing because to much people in water nowadays that make surfing boring and frustrating. So they moved to suping, foiling, winging and me to windsurf racing. Have to build way more complicated boards, i like it…
Come back to this project:
A strong surfboard with plenty volume for crawded beachbreack from 1 to 3m sometimes hollow, sometimes mellow. Experienced heavy and brutal surfer, my best board breaker.
So start by building blank
Very nice.
Stringerless? EPS? Foam density?
Looks like this will be a twin fin.
Where are you placing those fin bases?
Distance from tail tip?
Distance from rail?
Toe-in?
2x Springer = 12oz UD carbon 1"inch wide 1/4" inch deep under the surface that will be connected to lamination with epoxy foam filling grooves when i seal blank. 1.5# eps.
That will be a 5 fins option= thruster + quad.
Front fin, back dot: 300mm 27mm, 25mm toe in at nose. Draw it here for channel shape.
Can I pick your brain why you put the channel in that specific board?
Asking because I was going to make a similar guestimate to improve a similar sized board, but being an idiot I have decision making issues.
What’s the tail width?
Cheers
Jasper
Homemade pump with a fridge pump and a regulatuion system make with a vacuum capsule from an old car, a coil and a switch.
I use this set up for 35 years, build airplane RC then boards. Up to -0,7 bar. For wood bagging like here -0,4 bar is enough.
Yeah those refrigerator pumps were what a lot of guys started with. And if it works don’t fix it. Nice work on that board. Did you do the white cheater coat immediately after you laminated?
Been getting a few blanks from Marko with White PVC stringers. Same look. Really strong of course. I’ve never shaped a PVC stringered blank so don’t know how they cut.
Oh thanks for Lemat. I have an old refrigerator pump that I need to figure out how to get working. Is the vacuum capsule from the brake cylinder or is from the distributor?
Oh wow interesting. I’d love to see how your set up works. I’m assuming the vacuum cannister activates the switch to switch off when a certain vacuum is achieved then switches on again if the vacuum drops?
