Oh gawd, another Mass kneelo - there goes the neighborhood, down the tubes.
Bad enough that I’m here, after all.
Okay, being a kneelo and therefore a heretic, let me throw in my .017 euros…which comes to around two cents US.
Forget the nose, what’s there is what’s there and it’s not in the water when in use anyhow. Instead, concentrate on the tail. It’s currently one of those kinda silly swallowtails that are misnamed as fish, with the shoulders on it and all, the tips are buggered up, etc, etc. Plus it has a thruster type tail kick, which is bad for kneeboards. So…
Don’t strip any glass, instead it’s one of those very rare times when your trusty saber saw is useful.
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What I’d do is maybe take a template from a working fish, adapt it as need be, scribe that on the bottom, using those ‘shoulders’ as your starting point. I think our fellow Mass boy Basswave can help you there. A saber saw is prolly your best tool for the job. Redo the rails and the tail a bit, curve/edges wise, reglass and resite the fins as need be ( I’d glass on a couple, myself, rather than futz with plugs or whatever) and throw in a new leash plug someplace useful. Then equip yourself with a pair of UDTs and go to it.
I’ll even sweeten the deal. Being as I’m on the cape, get our pal Basswave to give you/make you a template from the tail on his fish and when the weather gets a bit warmer mebbe I’ll have a free afternoon and I’ll give you a hand with it here. And I am probably a bit more tooled up than you are, so it should go fairly quick.
Hope that’s of use
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Postscript/edit - rather than throw away perfectly good RR epoxy on polyurethane foam that doesn’t need it, I have a bunch of polyester lam and sanding resin that’s getting towards its sell-by date. So, we can use that and save the RR for a styro blank project. It’s only gonna go south on me here, so might as well, no?
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