Summer’s finally here and I’m desperate to get this bad boy in the water! I didn’t stop long enough to get any new pics up but the repair is going…
Well it’s been a long winter and now its time to start wrapping up all of those projects I’ve been neglecting. So back to work on this one and DISASTER!!!…
It’s been a while since I’ve done any work on this board. Today I started to get things moving again. I started off by spending some time setting up the…
I popped the tunnel fin out of the mold and it seems very sturdy. I also decided to shape a cut away spitfire fin as well just to see how…
I decided to fit this board with a large tunnel fin. Here is a shot of the mold that I will use to form the fin resting on the board…
Fine tuning the rails. I’m doing this part by hand using a rasp and a sanding block with very course belt sander paper attached to it. This eats wood very…
I spent some time with the belt sander and cleaned up the lines. I also began working on the rail bands. This forms the basis for the rail profile. I’ll…
Here I’ve added the last of the additional internal supports as mentioned earlier. You can see that I’ve cut out the outline of the board before I applied the final layer…
Here is the second internal layer going on. I will add a few more supports to this layer as I did to the first for the same reason.
I decided to add a couple of additional supports to the internal frame. I inadvertently mounted the inner frame with the slats running in the same direction as the slats…
Its been I little while since I’ve done any work on this board because I’ve been distracted with yet another new build (The Ozzy). I just can’t build fast enough…
With the two internal frames all cut out its time to glue them together. Here they are laid out on a plastic drop cloth, the joints are filled with epoxy thickened…
