What’s the biggest heaviest board you have around?
I’m going to be shaping an 11’3" noserider sometime in the near future … but my first board was “Checkers”, a SuperGreen blank with fiberglass/veneer/fiberglass and epoxy. Single fin, 50/50 rails all the way down, double concave tail (I know, I know … but it was my first board and I thought it would look cool – and it actually surfs great!)
Solid wood nose and tail blocks of the same mahogany and birch as the veneer, and a matching fin are the icing on the cake for this freight vessel …
That checker board rocks,reminds me of the ska days in the 80’s.This is a picture of me and my brother with our pop-outs.The board on the left is a 60’s (?) boat Mat glass pop-out South Bay Titan.Tons of fun.
I got it at a garage sale for $20.It has about 2 inches of rocker from the nose to tail and lots of belly.
It rides great.The only down side is getting it to the beach, and it did break my nose once.
My 12.6 “Matchstick” is super heavy, it’s shown elsewhere in the threads, making it etc, haven’t weighed it ever, but it’s not less than 20kgs. Wait till you have to carry a board that heavy on your head for over a mile! It’s paid off glassing it as heavy as I did as it glides beautifully through flat sections, other guys often use me as a tug to keep on the wave by holding on when the wave backs off, but it is a bastrd to get up the banks when finished. Reckon I have shrunk an inch since I made it!
Yea it’s veneer … I cut all of the pieces by hand and put them together with packaging tape into panels, then vacuum bagged to board w/ glass underneath, then removed tape, sanded well and vacuumed another layer of glass on.
This ia a 10’ solid balsa, with three western red cedar stringers. Glassed with a layer of 10 oz top and bottom. It weighs in at 25kg or a little over 50lbs. Feels light enough in the water but getting it there and back is quite an effort. But worth it when the waves are small. It actually has “The Tanker” written on the stringer.platty.
