A COUPLE OF 70's SINGLE FINS

Mc Grigor kneeboard spoon.

Bottom sanded.

De lams re bonded.

Hutchinson s deck

Ready for some glass.

'THE HEART & THE SEA' A NATHAN OLDFIELD FILM

The Heart & The Sea: Official Trailer from Nathan Oldfield on Vimeo.

A few words from Nathan.

Finally, here's the trailer to 'The Heart & The Sea.'

After working on this for over three years,

it feels good to get this out there to give people an idea about the heartbeat of the film.

I hope you like this first glimpse.

As an independent filmmaker with zero advertising budget,

this little clip is all I have so please share it with your friends!

Thanks for taking the time to have a look into 'The Heart & The Sea'

& as always, thank you for visiting this small corner of the interwebs.

The Heart & The Sea is premiering at my local theatre,
 Avoca Beach Picture Theatre,

 on Saturday, December 8th. The outdoor bar opens at 3.30,

so come & have a beer & celebrate with us.

The theatre is releasing tickets now, but they can't be pre-booked,

only purchased.

 Last time our premiere of Seaworthy at Avoca sold out pretty quickly,

so call 02 43821777 now. Thanks for your interest in the film.

If you live nearby, I hope to see you there!

G and S UPDATE

All the dings and lows have been glassed.

The logo, which is four logos

layed on top of each other

has been sanded and capped,

filler coated and sanded.

The rails and pinline have been sanded

and filler coated to protect the pinline.

All the repairs have been sanded.

The remaining lows have been built up.

G and S POCKET ROCKET

Shaped by John Monie.

Glassed by Dave Wilson.

This board is still owned by its original owner.

It was built with the Wayne Lynch board

below in mind.

10ft EGG

Finished.

Sea trials tomorrow.

Hopefully!

10ft EGG UPDATE

Bottom lam down.

Deck filler coated.

10 FT EGG

A new toy for summer on the way.

10' x 24"

Nose 18"

Tail 16"

Wide point fwd.

Rolled bottom and 50/50 egg rails.

I've re stringered this blank with a 1" balsa stringer.

I needed a bit more width 

and the original stringer had too much rocker.

I want this board to be pretty flat for small wave trimming. 

Ready to mark out.

MID NORTH COAST TRIP

It's been seven years between trips

 to this popular mid North coast spot.

Last time we had nice waves for two days.

Then it blew NE for a week.

This year we had nice waves for two days. 

Then it was out of control for a week.

That is the beauty of the surfing life,

it's unpredictable.  

Kay 2005

Kay same spot 2012.

NOT AS BIG AS 74

Wednesday, ‎6 ‎June ‎2012, ‏‎8:53:17 AM

RUNNING MAN BENNETT

Ok the fin has been set and trimmed.

Extra lams around the rails have been added.

Filler coated and sanded.

Glossed.

PUNCHING INTO IT

Probably better than sitting at anchor of Newcastle.

Probably better than grounded on a beach at Newcastle.

Glad I'm sitting on a beach South of Newcastle

and not punching into it.

RUNNING MAN BENNETT UPDATE

Finally got going .

New stringer scarfed.

The original foam is as good

as the day it was blown.

Ready to bond new foam in place.

Masking tape is to the surfboard repairer

 what fencing wire is to the farmer.

Ready to get sticky.

WASARESCUEBOARD 2 MODS

Back in 2009 I made this board.

It has been since superseded

and has been hanging around collecting dust.

Time to put it to some use.

It is a 9'6" pig. It has a fully cambered bottom

with no concave in the nose.

 

I've been a bit reluctant to add concave to my boards.

Mainly due to my lack of shaping experience.

I did'nt want to bugger it up.

This board has'nt been in the water since August last year.

So with nothing to loose I set about putting some concave in it.

This board did nose ride pretty well.

It may now be even better.

A bit of red pigment on the foam to hide the rough edge.

Two layers of 4oz.

One on the bias.

One 0/90

With a 3" strip around the outline.

CARBON SPOON

Finished.

Test ride this weekend.

Fins??

Not sure. I hope not.

If I do fin it they'll be

Bonzer keels.

BLACK FRIDAY GLOSS COATS

Getting close now.

Wet and dry, and polish

next week.

CARBON PIAPO UPDATE

Resin tint paint job.

First deck lams on.

CARBON PIAPO SPOON

At this stage the bottom has

3 x 4oz & 1 layer of carbon.

That is daylight you can see through the bottom lam.

The deck has been dug out

using a variety of tools.

A 4" grinder, a convex surform,

a small block plane for the stringers,

and 40 grit sand paper on soft pad.

ANOTHER PROJECT

I've been collecting old pre loved boards

for the hand planes I've been making.

This piapo is from one of the old boards.

The original plan was to do a

timber alaia style hard rail with a glass bead.

But, as the shaping progressed it became

obvious that the blank was to thick to do this.

So it has a 50/50 rail all the way through.

First lams on bottom.

I'm doing a Greenough style spoon deck.

That's why I kept the blank as thick as it is.

I've had a roll of carbon lying around

for close to 10 years now.

This seemed like a good project to use some of it on.

I need to keep this thing pretty stiff.

By the time all the foam is removed

there is not going to be much of a structure left.

Hopefully the carbon will keep on keeping on.

Not sure what the weight is.

Carbon warp, S glass weft.

OLD FAITHFULL

I bought this RUPES sander

back in the early 80's.

Working in the composite boat building industry

and restoring a 16' timber putt putt

I thought it would be a worth while investment.

30 years later it is still going strong.

The only things that have been replaced

are the electrical brushes, the rubber boot and the paper clamps.

RUNNING MAN BENNETT

I picked up this old beauty about

6 months ago.

No fin.

Many dings.

Delams on deck from knee paddling.

And some genius has tried to reshape the nose.

It could be 6" shorter than original.

Some homework needed here.

The last owner was toying with having it restored.

The cost, due the amount of work needed put him off.

 He asked if I was interested in buying it.

So I did with no intention of restoring it.

The more I looked at it, the more I thought 

it may be worth doing.

It has a nice rocker and outline.

It has been said that the best of these 

old logs have been surfed into oblivion.

Maybe this one, is one that has survived. 

Just!

The foil looks promising.