Few shots of the outline
Bit of Bellly in the nose
Channel begins around 1/3 back
Begins into double (spiral v???) through the fins
V out the back.
Concave channel look curved in the picture but it’s actually in line with the fin placement
Again I have learnt alot doing thia shape. My rack for instance is to far apart to do these smaller stringerless shapes!
Not sure whether I should keep the the top deck cut or feather it out
Rails are 60/40 but the bottom cut I have kept the tuck shallow and left a little edge, nothing serious but though this would help the release side of things. Also felt the nose was to thin but it might be ok
Guna glass volan, but I have some quadaxial I might use for a deck patch
Find it really hard to shoot good angles, think the low level lights make it harder too!
Anyway last few shots to try and show the shape
Thanks for the feedback! I thinned out the tail but I think I still left it a bit too thick. Anyway it was my first board and I am happy with the result and am eager to try it out on the water! Only thing I have still trouble with is little burn troughs at the bottom of my board. Already did some extra hotcoats in the specific areas but again burn trough at the same but most of the time at another place on the side of the extra epoxy. Does this mean my first bottom hotcoat was just to thin or is it something else. Also find when hot coating the epoxy doesn’t spread strayed/evenly but end up with little craters. Before hotcoating I use thinner to clean it and only touch it with gloves. Here are some pictures of the board glassed. Also learned I need to use 3m 233 tape so already bought it for my next project so the epoxy doesn’t bleed trough the tape 
@Billycvs contours are looking sick!
Looks pretty good! My first board was a pretty similar colour to that too!
I personally don’t go over the top with these minor rub throughs any more. Just mix a little resin, rub it on with your fingers and a glove. Rub it away from the mark and let it dry. Minor sand later on, even just nocking the shine off will work.
I was really shocked a while back, went to my local bing supplier looking at the resin work just to see how I was doing in comparison, and they all had blemishes on them, rub throughs and bubbles in the lams. Just seems to be the exceptable finish and I think looking for perfection is a frustrating game
Let us know how it goes
Looks very good to me . You’ve done an excellent job of foiling, clean up of the deck and channel bottom. Rail to deck is clean. Very well done.
McDing said it first. Job well done.
Thanks for the encouragement guys!
Cut the tail out earlier using the trusty 7" fin, and got the rails basted ready for the cut lap. Should get some glass on first thing tomorrow
Haha! Which 7" fin? A Rainbow Rake?
It’s a Koalition 7" fin. Pretty standard. Funny story, I moved to the coast from the city and it took a while to get established. I spent a long Time restoring old volkswagen campers and I was in a surf shop in a tourist destination, and there’s this fin sat on the display, an orange 7" with a stripe and a vw camper logo on it. I didn’t have the cash at the time, I was broke with mouths to feed. Few years later I saw it on a for sale site, sent the guy the money and he even dropped it at my door!
Haven’t sanded the deck yet, or hot coated the bottom. I really can’t decide on the fin template!
I have the true ames keels on the original but as we discussed, this could be too large of a fin. I also have some fcs tab keels which I could trim the tabs off and glass, but there g10, odd colour for the board and are still quite large.
I also have the template from my rocket fish, these are 6.25 long and 4.75 tall, but I’m worried these may be too small
Light was rubbish earlier but the volan seems to stand out. Allmost a perfect cutlap with the epoxy too
Well I finally made some fins up today. There a mix between the hobie template and the k2, with a flat foil and wide point at 20% cord. Interesting hearing Scott Jarrats views on fins, I like the more methodical engineering approach you use, it makes sence
Anyway these are bamboo, from a lovely chopping board. Glassed em with 6oz, ready to glue up tomorrow. Debating whether to use the no fin rope method that I read from Bill in an old thread. Anyone tried this???
