Sanding, with yet more sanding!!!!, just cleaning up the laps and gusset joints in the hull, sanding up the coaming support and hanging knees. Seat placement next, need to mark out and glue the cleats to secure the seat down, might need to Hoover out the hull first me thinks!!!!!

The 7' mini Simmons is now finished, great fun to build and rides like a dream!!! It was built using the wooden remains of my front porch mainly Doug fir and Merranti, the rails are as close to airfoil section as I could get, they are constructed using cork and bending ply. The tail rocker is a very low 1.5'' with 3'' in the nose, the earlier 6' 3" ply Simmons I built had similar rocker and caught waves so easily i wanted to reproduce it, after riding it I have played around on the AKU shaper program with the rail profile and narrowed them slightly with a much better airfoil shape, a much better match with the true Simmons board, I will be ripping the Cedar and Paulonia for the kit to build this model this week...check back soon.

A busy fin week

Finally finished the keel fins, the 9" longboard fin and the SUP race fin just in time to miss all the great swell last weekend!!!!! Nevermind, just started the bottom of the Cedar/Balsa mini simmons, (wont be long now Gaz) The Drifter kayak is nearly there, finished the seat today and filled the bilge and shear seams, deck to go on this weekend and coaming rim hopefully....pics to follow...