I’ve been busy making fins for all of the boards that I have in progress and this is one of them. The concept of this board has been “scrap wood…
Started working on some fins. I’m using the same lath wood that I used on the rest of this board to make fins. I glued the slats together with thickened…
Well, I decided to stick with my original concept and go with a bat tail and sharply raked fins on this board. After all that’s how it got its name….
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 hit this board with a few coats of epoxy last night. I decided to do this board with epoxy only. No fiberglass. I love to see how the grain…
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…
A few small gaps to fill then one more final sanding and this one is ready for glassing.
I cut out the plan shape in preparation for the top deck to go on. Once that is complete its on to the rail shaping marathon!
I now have the bottom deck and the two inner layers in place. As with the Mini Pintail, I will cut the board shape out of these layers before I…
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…
