Latest shortboard build

Here’s the last one I just popped out.

 

Shortboards are becoming more fun for me, since the blanks are pretty much cut out for you.

 

I have a buddy up the central coast, back home, that’s been giving me feedback on these things. So after a couple versions and a couple months I think we’ve landed on something he likes.  I started with making him a flatter, wider board - much like most guys seem to be riding these days for thrusters.  (whatever Dane is riding)

 

Turns out he needed something with a more continguous rocker, narrower, thinner etc.  It makes sense because waves are generally anywhere between 2-4 ft lager and steeper than anything I’ve seen down here. …atleast during the winter.

 

Turns out this is what works for him.  More pronounced rocker, thinner rails, and a simple single concave through the bottom with a flip out the tail. Glassed even llighter than the last.  4oz+4oz deck, and 4oz bottom.

 

polished/sanded finish.

 

Fun little board!

 

http://theanchored.blogspot.com/2012/04/helmsman-done-and-ready-for-its-trip-up.html