I just made my first board and it seemed I little on the heavier side… I made a 6’ 3" 19 3/4, and I don’t really know how thick (no calipers)… but how much should the board weight???
Average about 7-8 lbs.
Superblue 4oz bottom, 4 deck with patch maybe 6.5lbs but you don’t mention fin config or kind, leash, or glassing and blank schedule.
First glass jobs can be heavy.
I installed G5 FCS fin plugs of course tri-fin, leash is not included with the weight… I don’t know what you mean by blank schedule?? It just felt pretty heavy, I just weighed it and it weighed about 6.2 lbs. maybe it’s just my imagination!!
Finished board, that size, is light at 6 lbs.
I just rode a old hand me down 6’8" x 20 that weighed 9 lbs., and in 2-4’ OB surf today, could just flick it top to bottom…and it had straight set side fins!
Just keep thinking…in daze of yore, the surfers used 80lbs. solid wood boards.
LeeDD,
Here’s the other end of the weight spectrum to show how it’s all relative: My last balsa board was a 10’2" Sunday cruiser super tanker with all the bells and whistles and showroom options I could put on it…nose and tail blocks, seven stringers (up to 5/8" thick), solid wood rails, big wide deep solid wood cast resin skeg. Then to add even more weight I had it glassed with double 6oz. top/bott. Though I lightly chambered it my goal was to get as close down to around 40 pounds as possible (my first board was a 1964 model Surfboards Hawaii at 41 pounds). I was more than surprised when it came in at straight up to the ounce 39 pounds. It made me feel as if I’d shaped a 3 pound board.
Impressive.
It’s also relative to body weight too. When I first started surfing, I weighed around 112 lbs. with a 22 lbs. ONeill Intruder 10’er. After 4 months, I could snap turn it pretty well, with my eye set on longboard contests. Too bad shortboards came out then.