Sad, sad day it was. Newly shaped blank didn’t survive a recent move / transition. I bubble-wrapped her and moved her in my wife’s SUV just to make sure everything would be safe and sound. The next day, I unwrapped and put her up on a rack that I installed in the new garage. The following morning I opened the garage to pull my car out and I find my new mistress on the hood of my car with a nasty chunk missing out of her hind quarters and a pressure gash in the deck…
So, what do I do? She is 7’6 x 22-1/2 x 3, slightly displacement hull in the nose, turned up rails to 3/4, vee in the tail. She was a diamond tail. I’m goofy, so this is on my frontside - I was thinking of asymm, but isn’t backside supposed to be shorter?
I can fill the deck gash, no problem… but im drawing a blank (no pun intended) on the fix for the tail.
I can’t even bring myself to look at her now. Was so excited to get this one glassed and in the water for the summer south swells. :(
consider a different tail shape…dont’ take it personally but that diamond tail looks a bit wonky (to me). Maybe the universe was trying to help you make a better board!
Thanks for the responses. I see what you are saying Huck. Keith, I may end up butchering the tail trying to do what Huck mentioned, so a reshape may be in order.
If it were me (I’m weird this way), I would cut both sides and patch pieces in to give symmetry to the eye and make it look less like a repaired area. Maybe even put a wood strip in between foam to make it look like tail blocks.
So, after a nice 4th of july session down in C-bad to day, I decided to play around with tail shapes of this board. Adding foam could lead to bigger mistakes by my hands. The original plan was to run a single fin box, about 5" off the tail. The new plan is to go with a bat tail and run quad plus one. I am going to take some measurements and make a template for this tail - so i can use it in the future. The picture is not exact… What do you think? This should bring the board down to about 7’, and I may have to thin out the tail a bit and rework the foil. We shall see.
From the pic, it looks like its turning into a fluster cluck to me, but what do I know. I liked the original board as shaped.
In the time it takes to post this stuff, I would already have had it fixed and onto the next project. But hey, from this cauldron today are brewed the magic boards of tomorrow!
I can make it work at 10" total width of the bat tail. It will be 5.25" up from old tail. Also, looks like I may not have to change much in the foil, just even things out…
Yep, Huck… im spending too much time dwelling on it.
It isn’t as bad as you think. I damage boards all the time and we fix them with a qcell/resin patch. I also use the same spackle that I use to bog my eps to fix these. (not as good as the qcell but easier)
Huck gave you the best advice on the fix. Slice and piece foam for a better fix but rakes one effort.
I drew out the bat tail onto the blank this morning. I agree, it doesn’t really look right. And I am still wanting the diamond tail - since that was my original plan. Shallower and just a little further up than the original diamond is what I am going to go with. I’ll take some better pics and then make a resin/qcell slurry to seal the blank today.
