second board, first EPS

General Discussion
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This board would not have been possible without Swaylocks.

Thanks to TKELLY for letting me use your shaping room.

Thanks to KOKUA for procuring me the K-Flex fins.

Thanks to AIRFRAME for making to trips to get me the blank.

Thanks to GLOEHR for the resin and helpful info.

The board is 6’-3" x 18-3/4" x 2-1/4". It is EPS, spackled, glassed 6-4-4 on the deck and 6 on the bottom- s-glass, tinted.

The whole premise of the board was one I could ride with my back foot firmly planted on the fins. I got a lot of the measurements from various threads, including “surfing off the back foot,” and “high performance surfboard.”

I realize it looks like a standard 6-2 thruster but since I’ve never had anything close to a standard 6-2 thruster this will be new for me. Single to double concave. K-Flex for fins (I had gashed my foot just before starting the board). It has a chamfer under the flip like a longboard.

The tint on the deck was a little patchy (subject of another post), but you can’t see it with the wax. I’ve tried it once but it was on a chopped upo afternoon- not ideal conditions for such a light board. It was intended for head high and under, hollow beachbreak. Unfortunately (???) it has been overhead or bigger for the last month or so.

Pray for small surf?

Not.

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The swirl was supposed to be blue and green but came out dark green. TKELLY said it looked like a F-1 racetrack so that’s what I nicknamed the board- “Racetrack.” Hope it lives up to its name.

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uh…yeah…that thing will FLY. Nice work!

Just for the sake of personal interest…nose and tail rocker measurements? Rocker looks nice and stagey; that board will totally boogie in the conditions you’ve made it for.

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5-3/4" nose 1-3/4" tail. Pretty much what was on the the Loehr Designs blank from SEGWAY COMPOSITES. I made it thinner than I normally would as per advice for EPS shapes, but it feels thin to me. Maybe because of my 6-4-4 deck glass job? It stills feels lighter than the shortboards I find on the racks. I’ve no scale so I can’t say for sure how much it weighs.