Spot the longboard is ready for glass and the handplanes are ready for Christmas, another nice little surf session would be nice though!!!!

It's Friday, wahoo, beer and D fins time!!

They do seem a bit large but gonna need the drag to slow this thing down.

A week combining my two favourite pastimes, drinking and shaping, seemed to go OK seeing as it involved painting the foam, not in my comfort zone!!!! Beer certainly helps.

It's all about the hand planes this weekend, art work next....

Shaping up well, fin blanks laminated and cut ready for foiling, one more board to shape then a mega glassing sesh!!!!!!

Wow, some kind of foam in this Simmo, better get the stringer on and shape the beast!!!

Moving on today, managed to cut the blank in half, reinforce the stringer in carbon, repair some Gp4 old school mini spats then glue the blank back together. There is no such thing in life as too many clamps.... Cutting stringers and foam for a bunch on mini Sims tomorrow, let's have it!!!!!

New project on the table, a slab of foam in pic 1, an EPS blank in pic 2. Hotwire cut super light blank, stringer going in tomorrow and shaping will begin, gonna be a 9' 6" wide planning hull twinzer, a low entry rocker ripple catcher. Not moving away much from the Bob Simmons ethos, no need, still the best board template on the planet and definitely a great shape for British surf, let's get it on!!!

Skurfing anyone?

Its been a while but got my shape back on, skurfing anyone!!! All built from reclaimed ply and Cork tiles, hollow wooden construction 4' 6" long 20 1\2" wide, glass is going on so will be looking for a victim, I mean test pilot to give it a rip!!