SHANE A NEW ADDITION TO THE FAMILY

Introducing Shane.

Weighs in at 5'7"

He's a little twisted.

He has a few warts on his bottom.

But we love him.

He's a bit chubby around the middle,

but that is pretty standard.

MINI SIMMONS PROJECT UPDATE

Lesley has finished shaping the mini Simmons.

The groove is where the original snap was rejoined.

Lesley ground it out for the shaping.

It will be filled prior to glassing.

One of Lesley's mini planes

on the nose of

 her mini Simmons.

SCOTT DILLON REVERSE D FIN

I've been working on this old Scott Dillon for a while now.

Original pigment over glass job.

The nose and tail are pretty battered.

Even though they have been repaired in years gone by.

Repaired and faired up.

Ready for some pigment.

Freshly pigmented.

Old foil logo.

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.