not too often you see surf coverage in south carolina and especially not on self built backyard garage style twin fins! anyone else score some colin waves on a swaylocks craft…lets see them!!!
here is the build…using all the sawys tricks…5’7x20x2.5 eps / epoxy with SPACKLE thinned with distilled water aaahhhh. hotwired from block using gravity assist method. stringer ripped from prime (no knots) pine from lowes. blank split with a skil saw and masonry blade. shaped with hitachi and grit drum. acrylic paint thinned with future clear acrylic abd applied with brush. resin reasearch ultra CE. 2x4 bottom + 2x4 top with 3rd layer 3/4 butterfly patch. epoxy hotcoat sanded then poly finish coat. 320-400 then red scotchbrite with some polish - smoooooth matte finish. secret keels (more upright than any other keels i have come across) hand foiled from g-10. fcs fin plugs routed freehand - no jig! fcs underglass deck plug installed during deck lam. recycled deck pad torn off a broken board and glued on with super 77. leash string cut from some worn spectra from old kite bridle. one thing i missed was to use my own wax - love my sticky bumps! add waves and shred!!!
…hello man, very good good on you.
I only can add that a fish and rocket fish work better without keels.
Keep on going.
great photos, nice score, good job on the board too
Great story. Great build. Our mutual friend AB from SI sent me the pics earlier. You guys got it good up there and apparently you maximized the opportunity. I’m somewhere between insanely jealous and happy for you. Damn it. Hahaha.
All the best
reverb they work differently and you have not ridden my keels 
i saw that pensacola scored hard and wrightsville too
any swaylockers around there get some goods on their crafts?
I’m in Pensacola… No pics, but all on my own boards, here’s my rundown.
Monday evening was pretty dams big and I was clearly not ready. Well overhead, mostly closing out with a pretty good southeast wind.I made it out on my 7’ single fin egg (I always pick the wrong board). I floundered around on the outside too chicken to go for the biggest ones, but too far out to catch the more manageable ones. All I wanted was something with a shoulder! But it was mostly big wide slammers with nowhere to go. Watching those from out the back was f*ckin spooky. 5-6 feet on the backside. I caught one(!) decent one, lots of spray, I couldn’t see, and the drop kept droppin. By the time I was at the bottom I looked behind to see an avalanche chasing me down… so I straightened out for the beach, dropped to ma belly and cruised to the sand, walked the two blocks back to my car, picked up some beer and went home. Big bad surfer, eh?
Tuesday morning looked almost same size but with no wind, very slight offshore. I mistakingly went to the west end of the beach in Ft.Pickens (I always pick the wrong spot). Our normally straight south facing beach bends more west facing down there and the waves were much smaller. The mid break was crappy and me and the 7’0 egg struggled to catch much of anything. Bummer again.
Had to head to work until the afternoon, but made it back out about 5:00 and finally got it right. Riding my 9’6" single fin, it was still chest/shoulder high with some bigger ones everyonce in a while. Almost by myself, and I caught a ton of waves!Had a little bit of wind, but long frontside rights. Fades to the left and then rights. Super fast lefts just holding the rail on a steep face. Pumping up the face frontside felt like I was using my body weight trying to get higher air on a halfpipe (25 years ago).
So a bit of redemption there at the end. Now it is The Lake of Mexico again.
I got Va Beach waves Tues./Wed. morning. Fun enough to be late to work but not fun enough to skip entirely. Probably waist-chest until high tide messed it up. Wasn’t riding my own craft, but was riding my G & S Hot Curl that I did fix, repair, and reglass - all thanks to Sways help. By the end of the day, it was maybe thigh high.