Foam from surfding, cut by Spence, mangled by me.
Kinda ‘‘Simmonesque’’ in appearance. And the dimensions are…???
Hi Bill , I installed three boxes side by side into the new board I’m making today. I should be able to ride it as a Thrailkill double fin or a single. If I don’t like it as a double or single I can still add side boxes and make it a thruster/widow maker later.
Looking at the board from the side and the way the rails ended up, the board is a mutant hull. S-deck, thin rails, and flatter tail rocker.
I’ll try to post photos tomorrow. I haven’t been able to see any of the photos I’ve posted since the discussion thread was changed. I’ll email them to you as a backup.
Aloha, Sharkcountry
Bill, the blue railed board is a short (but not mini!) Simmons replica.
6’4" x 23 1/2 x 3 1/8
True to form, parallel rails from nose to tail with a beautiful S deck and hull.
A hard tucked edge appears as the rail line straightens out and is carried all the way to the tail.
It goes from forward belly to panel vee (I think) to double concaves out the tail.
Both of these boards are designs that Spencer Kellog worked up for me and cut out of stringerless XPS blanks.
I’m putting in 4 ProBoxes…Larry is making me keels using the Simmons template and I’m also going to try some speed dialers.
Surf has been chest to head high and peaky at the beach breaks…been worshipping at the alter of Griffin the past couple of days (ask and ye shall receive). Will be on the LB this week and posting updates ASAP.
Looks like fun,
I am not up to speed on the S decks but would like to rub one down.
Need to hit up the archives and see what the hulls are all about.
hulls will ruin your surfing
almost finished…still waiting on a custom set of simmons template bamboo keels from Larrrrr.
set it up as a quad with consieration for the keels (in the back boxes).
really pleased how it came out.
Nice job T. Looks like a fun ride, perfect for the Cove.
took it out this morning in Manhattan and had a couple fun waves.
tried to get too agressive on the backside and lost the tail a couple of times, but I had some highlights front side.
definitely tricky going from a 7’ griff 5-fin rocket to a 6’4" stump in peaky beach break.
got hit with a classic 10 wave windswell set…not much use trying to duckdive this thing.
Interesting shape, Tyler.
Will you ride it at The Cove?
Don’t you worry about bacterial and viral runoff?
It can affect you for the rest of your life.
I will have a weakened immune system forever, due to a contracted bacterial infection at Malibu Surfrider in the early fall of 1999.
I take a multitude of vitamins and other immune building products, daily, just to stay neutral.
So, take care and stay out of the water for at least 72 hours after a rain.
There will always be another day and other swells to rip.
A shot of jack after the session cures all that ails ye.
looks pretty sweet! howd the finish work go on these?
What’s the weight like with the bamboo boards?
Are you weighting them?
Shortboards need to be under 5 pounds.
I guess the trick is to vacuum bag to keep the resin adsorption down?
finish work went really well on both of these hulls.
probably last 2 I’ll do for a while because of the time and energy commited to the finish work…the fact is that I hate epoxy, I hate sanding epoxy and I hate patching epoxy.
that being said, I figured out a good process in terms of paper rotation for getting things sorted…very few shinies on the bottoms of these dogs.
Michael, these are your last two XPS blanks I got…thanks again for everything.
you’re right about weight…but your laminators are top notch…once you bag on the veneer with a bit of epoxy, you can lam the thing normally, nice and dry.
You shouldnt have problems getting shortboards to be less than 5 lbs. The durability and stiffness of the bamboo/glass skins should allow you to use lighter/stringerless cores.
When done right, bagging the veneers on uses very little epoxy.
look at your charging that big left…going the wrong way…
fuggin durbs.
sorry to burst your bubble, my avatar isnt mirrored. We only have rights around here anyway. I only go left when Im sitting in front of you…
“local charger back doors infamous left, reverses global warming!”
the simmons has been solid…loaned it out to a few heads who seemed to enjoy it…still bulletproof after lots of abuse; you really have to put a knee in to that thing to dive it but the deck is still rock solid.
I surfed the hull a little bit…fidgeting with fins, but wound up putting it down for the summer and riding mostly my Black Knight.
we had some nice lined up surf at the beach breaks so I figured I’d finish noodling with the fin on the hull and grabbed it for a surf one day only to find a massive air bubble under the bamboo on the deck side. I had issues during the build with the deck and had to make some fixes, but it seemed to go down ok…apparently it wasn’t.
I stripped the bamboo by sanding the perimeter of the board where the bamboo meets the rail.
then I went at the bare deck with my milwaukee and faired in the edges of the bottom lam and took some volume out of the board; it was way too corky at it’s original cut…I did my best to stay true to the design while thinning it about 1/4" or so. I also plan on glassing this one pretty heavily since it’s stringerless and has lost that bamboo veneer.
I’m thinking of three layers of 4oz…at 0’ bias, -45’ bias and 45’ bias…we’ll see how this pans out.
I am still considering taking more foam out of it.
Do you reckon it was outgassing from the XPS?