My Annual Boardbuilding Thread

[Durbs]

You are going to have fun vacuum baggin… its good stuff

[haavard]

@$1

Most of the guys on this site will most likely throw rocks at me for saying this:

How come you don’t use a stringer? Boards snap in the ocean. (OK i’ve had two boards snap with stringers in 25 foot Todos) I used a 1/4" Basswood stringer  (What a goof!)  So now I use 3/8" for Sunset and Todos Guns. Overhead surf at Malibu? Two (1/8") stringers 6 to 8" a part you can use bending popular so you maintain your flex without loosing integrity of strenght. Building a board without a stringer is like building a house with no headers over the windows and doors?

I’m pretty sure the vent is the culprint here. What would happen if you put a vent like that into a board with a stringer right where you put you hands? I think this board could have survived with the vent either further forward and/or off to the side from the center (where the energy is focused).

 

[surfding]

The vent plugs I used when I first started using EPS bout 4 years ago were put close to the tail right of center.