Got to paddle the board yesterday, great fun although a little twitchy. Bring on some waves, when my back gets better!!!!!!!!

Spun the beast over today and varnished the bottom, sounds rude!!!! Good to see it all coming together, may even go for a trail paddle this coming weekend if it all goes well.....cheers all

Glassing done and sanded, its the first time I have had the chance to sand rails with a belt sander, they are huge!!! I normally end up with my preferred skinny rails. The pics show the first coat of Epifanes clear yacht varnish with a slant on the Blame Laird sub culture!!!!!

Final shaping and snagging

Final sanding, the best bit, its all been glued together and all the bits that didn't look like a surfboard planned off!!!! Hand carry slot and fin plugs done, glass the rails and gloss coat...done, well, by next weekend hopefully!!

Plugs and funky tail

Got the FCS plug seats cut today and funked up the tail, decided to go for an elliptical tail, not that it brings anything to the party, it was just suggested by a friend so try it and see if it works I reckon! The carry hand slot and leash plug tomorrow, build up the tail, 2 layers of glass on the rails and get it wet!!

Glass and foam

Glassing is ongoing in between the cold weather periods, should have pics of four fresh glassed boards soon, to fill the downtime void I dug out my vacuum pump and bag and got creative with carbon and lateral stringers with 1lbs EPS, great fun to mow foam again and got loads of ideas for some hybrid recycled foam/pvc SUPs and surfboards, love the research and development side of things and getting to try out all the stuff that spins around your mind just before you fall asleep, here are some pics of an 8' 4" fishy SUP board that has all those ideas in there somewhere, its huge volume should be enough for the whole family, just some R+D fun.The top pics showing the 3mm marine ply and 4oz lam top and bottom, then onto the EPS and into the bag, get a pull on for 7 hours, lay up the corecork rails and back in the bag for an hour, two more rail lams and should be done!!!...cheers all.