Here is board #2, another big guy tri. It’s a 6’10”x12”x20.5”x14.5” and it’s 2.75” thick. It has a small amount of vee from midway increasing past the fins, then flat off the tail.
This board is for a friend who weighs 205lbs and was after a little more float than his 6’8” chip was providing. After riding my first board (board #1, see resource XX) we decided to thin the rails out, add some vee & pull the pod width down. The fins are at 3.25” for the centre and 11” for the sides.
I glassed it with 6/4 on the deck and one 4oz on the bottom using UV resin for the lamination and catalysed normally for the hotcoat.
I had the same two problems as with my first board. One being that the lap lines are more visible than I would like (they have a green tinge to them, I’ll be posting a new thread about this soon), and the second problem is that the hotcoat sagged again in some places on the deck.
Once again, thanks to everyone on Swaylocks for the assistance!!
I have a 6’8" x 20.5 that is very similar, thin nose, rails and tail, and it floats me, at 152lbs., about Bbutton 3" under water! But center is around 2.6" thick, very crowned, which I always hate.
When you brushed out your hotcoat, did you go side to side one in addition to nose to tail?
My friend has only had it in 1/2-1ft slop this morning so it’s too early to be certain but he thinks we’re onto a winner for him. I forgot to mention that I also pulled the widepoint back 4".
I have fixed up the image links now. For some reason the inline option wasn’t working properly.
Board #3 is going to be a 9’6" cruiser with a green tint.
I use Autocad to create my templates. When I had the nose at 11.5" wide it was really obvious that the widepoint was back 4". With the nose at 12", the slightly straighter outline does look centered and is no where near as obvious, it definitely isn’t exaggerated like some shortboards.
Regarding the hotcoat, I use essentially the same technique as shown in Glassing 101. I find that it all goes on well and looks great, then after say five minutes the hotcoat sags. I had read numerous times in the archives not to keep brushing it otherwise you can strip the wax off making it a hassle to sand. So after my initial brushout which takes around 4 mins, I leave it regardless. My hotcoats kick after about 15 mins at which point I pull the tape (I don’t tape the for the deck hotcoat though). I have only had sags on the deck, never on the bottom & both of these boards have decks which are fairly crowned.
Your board looks like its store bought ! nice job. My next step on my board #2 is the hotcoat if it ever stops raining. I thought that was going to be a piece of cake, now you got me thinking. Have you ever thought of a career in board building…DR
