Scored six, yes six, free windsurf blanks off of craigslist.
Havent touched em yet, actually, havent even seen them yet.
They’re waiting for me on my Mom and Dad’s porch.
Mom and Dad dropped everything when I called and went and got em from up in the gorge, in the snow. Thanks!
Saw a little pic of them on the ad. No stringer, moulded/routed hole for skeg/centerboard, way too thick, rocker to make ya cringe…
Yep, Im gonna do it.
Sombody ask me what im gonna do about a stringer…
go ahead…
I see a hand there in the back…
Yes?
“What’re ya gonna do about a stringer? And those slotted voids?”
MMhhmm, now that’s a good question. I am gonna cut a rectangular plywood jig and align the blank on it, and run it through a table saw, remove the voids all together and narrow the overall width. I have about 500 board feet of 1"x6" cedar in the garage, I think I can fashion a stringer from that. Run it through the stationary planer to thickness, y’know… glue it up in the shop.
Another hand goes up…
“the blanks are thick, and the rocker is wrong. What about the softer center? You know you are gonna have to mow a lot of foam. You do own an electric planer, don’t you?”
Well, yes, yes, what about it? 6oz with a 4 oz deck patch, sez Ben Gunn. A planer…hmmm. No, but Steve does… I’m sure he’ll be a sport about loaning me a planer for a bit…
from the back of the room, he stands up. Clears his throat, and yells without raising his hand…
“Quit beating around the bush… what shape?! What shape?!!”
My God, thats the question… what shape indeed?
