WORKS IN PROGRESS

The Bluebird bottom has been filler coated.

All the rail dings have been glassed and sanded.

The deck delams have been re bonded.

A few lows on the deck need to be addressed

then it can be filler coated.

This is the SAM (Egan).

Sanded ready for glassing.

The logo area is a bit of a mess.

Half of them are missing due to a previous repair.

The remaining logos are delaminated.

The SAM fin.

The old yellowed gloss coat has been sanded off.

Two layers of 10oz and a layer of 4oz.

BACK YARD WILD LIFE

We are pretty lucky to have all these guys in

our back yard.

FESTIVAL OF THE PIG

I received an email on Friday from Mike Black

at surf a pig 

promoting a gathering of pig enthusiasts he has organised.

There is still time to jump a plane and get to San O by 

the 18th June. 

MINI SIMMONS PROJECT

Lesley Adamski is better known for her timber boards.

See here and here

Lesley recently got hold of the remains of a snapped mal.

Which had been snapped and repaired twice before

and went to work patching together the foam

to build a Mini Simmons. 

I'm gluing it up.

Hopefully I'll be able to post images as the project advances.

SAM, NORM AND A BLUE BIRD.

Sam.

Norm.

The Blue Bird.

Stay tuned for updates as the restorations progress.

WASARESCUEBOARD 3 UPDATE

Finished at last.

8'1" x 21 1/2" x 3"

 N 17 3/4"

T 14 3/4"

Wide point 6" fwd of middle.

The fin is 10 1/2" x 6 1/2"

The trailing edge is 13" up.

I think it may have to much base.

I need to start somewhere.

I can allways make it smaller.

Some flex.

With the 6'6" I made over the Christmas break.

SURF CITY EXHIBITION

Kay and I went down to Newport yesterday  for the interview

Kay was asked to do for a documentary,

which will be part of the surf city exhibition

in Sydney later this year.

Kay grew up in, and surfed at newport.

Being a founding member of Newport Plus,

Kay was mentored by Derek Hynd and

Tom and Nic Carroll to name a few.

To a high level of women's surfing

in and out of competition.

WASARESCUEBOARD 3 UPDATE

Glossing bottom.

Freshly glossed deck.

Wet and dry sand next week.

WASARESCUEBOARD 3 UPDATE

A claytons Mexican blanket.

I needed to get rid of some old paint.

Lap cut.

Bottom lamed.

WASARESCUEBOARD 3 UPDATE

Finished shaping.

It is hard to see the subtle s deck

so I played around in photoshop

and came up with this.

As you can see from previous posts 

my workshop is not setup for shaping.

All my walls are white for maximin brightness.

No side lights.

So I hang black plastic for some contrast.

If you think that stringer is bent,

you would be right.

This was the result of the original glue up

on the log this blank came from.

The 1" stringer is end grain balsa with the grain

running across the board.

It was only added to the original blank for some extra width.

So when the blank was glued up there was not enough

longitudinal strength in the balsa to pull the bend out of the bent 

half of the blank. 

Now all I need is the rain to stop so I can get glassing.

WASARESCUEBOARD 3

In 2006 I made this 9'6" log

out of a couple of SLSC rescue boards.

I have since made a new log.

This one has been in the rack for over 12 months.

So it is time to recycle it.

The masking tape and outline is a rough shape

to see if what I wanted would fit.

It does.

Time to strip the glass off.

The outline cut out and ready to clean up.

8' x 22 1/2" displacement hull.

Nose 17 3/4"

Tail 14 /3/4"

Wide point 6" fwd of half way.

I was hoping to go a little more than 6"

but that is all I could get out of the blank.

NOOSA 2011

We have just returned from our annual pilgrimage to Noosa.

Below are some images of the flight North.

No images of the waves.

There are plenty floating around in blogdom.

We had good waves every day.

There was some outstanding logging going on by the 

international and local crew.

Johnsons was the standout spot on a mid to low tide.

I don't know who the surfer was,

but he caught a wave from behind the big rock at Johnsons

and it was fives and tens all the way to the beach just short of first point. 

He did not move off the nose for the whole wave. 

The waves were running down the bank in about 12" of water.

If you got the right one it was great.

Pick the wrong one and it was a drilling into the sand.

Caves beach south of Newcastle.

Shannon Creek dam.

A bend on the Clarence river

NW of Grafton.

Cape Morton.

KAY JARMAN c1974

In January last year I posted a link to blog called

surfcity

It has been put together by Gary Crockett,

who is curator
with the Historic Houses Trust of NSW.
 In September this year an exhibition

on surfing in the 50's, 60's and 70's will be held at the

Museum of Sydney. 

Gary came up to see Kay and I last weekend

about having a board restored for the exhibition,

and to see if he could use some of our small collection

of boards and books etc in the exhibition.

In a few weeks Gary is returning to interview

Kay for a documentary he is producing for the exhibition. 



GLOSSED

Simon Anderson.

McCoy.

Only a wet and dry sand, and a polish to go.

A BOARD WITH A LIGHTNING BOLD ON IT UPDATE

Bottom glossed.



SIMON ANDERSON RESTORATION UPDATE

Getting there.

Finally got to glass the bottom today.

All the holes, cracks, delams etc

have been taken care of and sanded.

Deck glass and fillers tomorrow.

Then the fins.

TEMPLATED BOARDS

L to R

9'1" Gordon Woods.

9'6" Gordon Woods.

9'4" step nose Shane.

L to R

6'6" hull. (a composite of 2 templates from book)

7'6" Gordon Woods.

5'7" Steve Lis quad fish. (template from book)

8'2" Keyo Plastic Machine.

TEMPLATES

I might only shape one or two boards a year.

But when a board comes in for some restoration work

and it is a special looking shape, I'll pull a template off it.

Some of the templates above are taken from

James Kinstle's book

Surfboard Design and Construction.

http://jfmillbiz.home.comcast.net/swaylocks/Surfboard_Design_and_Construction_1977.pdf

My current ride,

a  9'6" pig was put together using some of these templates

and a few others not shown.

I might own the templates

but I don't own the designs.

If anyone wants a copy I am more than happy 

to make a copy and pass it on.

I'll post images of the boards shortly.

These boards are from the late 60's and 70's.

They are becoming rarer and rarer.

So I think we need to document as much as we can.

This is why I also document all the dimensions etc,

 of all the pre 70's boards I restore.

Photos are taken of everything.