REFLECTIONS

Sometimes it's hard to shoot images of glossed boards

without getting some reflection.

I enjoy seeing it on boards in other blogs.

WHERE'S MY PHONE!

If you value your mobile phone don't do what I did this morning.

I went out to do some work on the Kombi

I put my phone on my partners care while I unlocked mine

and promptly forgot about it.

When she left for work, I watched her drive away.

She soon returned. She had forgotten her watch.

Again I watched her drive away.

Phone still on the roof.

Where's my phone I soon wondered.

Doh!

I found it about 200 metres past where she said she turned around. 

THE BOUDDI GRAND DEEP

We are pretty lucky to have this virtually in our backyard.

To get to this vantage point is about a 15 minute walk.

You wouldn't think that civilization is less than a kilometer away.

TO BIG FOR ME

Friday the 13th.

The bottom two images are of a

offshore bommie that only breaks when it is big.

HI - RIDER by HARTLEYS

Out of Victoria.

Could be a sports store or a hardware.

Definitely pro built.

Pretty dinged up.

But worth fixing.

Ready for some glass.

ANGRY SEA

KEYO PLASTIC MACHINE

This board has been laying in its owners backyard

for who knows how long.

To short and to new to ride in old mal comps,

it was left in old mal limbo, waiting for the right moment

to be remembered.

That moment came thanks to its owner reading

Bob McTavish's book

"Stoked"

The penny dropped.

I think I've got one of those "Plastic Machines"

laying around in the back yard somewhere.

8'2" long

by a little over 24" wide.

GLASS SAFE-SET

I've been meaning to do this for a while now.

I got hold of this Peter Clarke Tracker

with a Safe -Set box.

The fin that came with it is in great condition but too small.

Original fins are hard to come by, and by now are pretty brittle.

So I set about making a new glass fin to fit the original box.

I had some off cuts of a few layers of 4oz.

I cut them to fit the box and taped them together.

Next a small bog radius was put inside to hold things together.

Some glass tubing was cut and holes drilled in the bottom

of the box.

Then everything was fitted and screwed in place.

A total of three pours were made to fill the box. 

Pours finished and ready for some detailing.

Fitted.

 All I need to do now is restore the board.

GORDON WOODS EGG

Finished at last.

I took it on its maiden voyage on Saturday.

The waves were a little inconsistent

but when they came threw they were good

3' to 4' local point.

Here are some initial observations.

Very loose. I could tell it was going to bee loose when paddling out.

Very skatey when when going slow.

As soon as the wave walled up and the board gained some speed

it was like riding another board.

Still loose, but it tracked more and went where I wanted it to.

Bare in mind it is early days yet, but it feels like it is going to be a regular ride.

I found my self in places on the wave rarely visited.

GORDON WOODS EGG

Freshly glossed deck.

DALE V-BOTTOM UPDATE

Glossed on Friday.

Wet and dry and polish next friday.

Hopefully.

GORDON WOODS EGG

Things are progressing.

The second bottom lam was done last weekend.

The fin has been set.

It's a Safe Set copy.

Set 14" up.

The bottom has been filler coated.

A bit of camber there.

New logo to hide that large gash in the deck lamed.

The deck has been sanded ready for gloss.

DILLON POCKET ROCKET

I swapped a 70's San Juan single fin

for this Scott Dillon pocket rocket. 

The deck is good.

The bottom needs work.

I've got a spare

Safe Set fin box lying around

that will slot straight into that hole.

GORDIE

A mate calls up the other day

to ask if I can some repairs on an old log he had just bought.

I ask what is it, and he says its a Gordie

10' of beauty.

Beautiful outline.

Beautiful rails, pinched and well tapered at the ends.

Beautiful rocker.

We are test riding this weekend.

Beauty!!

GORDON WOODS EGG

I was recently made aware that

Damon Gribble at DigiArt Imaging

has logos from days gone by on file.

 Damon told me that he is in the process of scanning a couple

of folders full of original logos from Jim the printer. 

  

ONE LEGGED BY ANDREW MOONEY

I recently fitted some plugs into the deck of one of Andrews boards

 so he could mount a camera.

Here are the results.
Check out Andrews blog.
http://aydotmooney.blogspot.com/

One Legged Mooney from Moonrat on Vimeo.

DALE UPDATE

Unfortunately there is a large ding on the rail.

At some stage it had been filled with car bog and glassed.

This had to go.

The area was cleaned up and a mould was made.

A&B foam was mixed and poured.

The new foam has been sanded below flush.

This will be built up with glass, sanded flush and then capped. 

GORDON WOODS EGG UPDATE

A little while back I acquired this Gordon Woods.

See older posts for more images.

The bottom had some pretty severe foam shrinkage

and needed filling along with the normal dents and dings

acquired over time.

Rather than fill the individual lows and try and sand

them, without sanding down the surrounding foam.

A bog screed was pulled over the whole bottom.

Then sanded fair. 

The rails, nose and tail were also filled where needed.

This board had a yellow tint glass job.

You wouldn't think so by looking at it now.

But there are areas on the deck and under the original fin

 that are definitely yellow.

The original plan was to rebuild the bottom

then do a pigment job to the cut lap line.

But as happens on occasion with these

kinds of jobs, plans can change as the job progresses.

As has happened here.

 The rails really needed some work and some extra glass.

So a pigment glass job around the rails onto the deck

 seemed the logical way to go.

Two layers of 4oz.

One on one to go.

THE 'FALCON' AND 'THE BLUEBIRD'

Glossed and ready for wet and dry

and polish.

DALE V- BOTTOM

I'm not sure what was painted on this board.

But there appears to have been an attempt to remove it at some point.

What ever it is, it sanded off quiet easily.

It also protected the board

from UV attack.

CLOUD BREAK? COTTON WOOL FINS?

I was sitting down having my pre breckie heart starter (coffee) yesterday morning.

Thinking about what boards to work on, and listening to 702 as we do every morning.
When this cloud formation floats by.  

JUST ADDED TO THE LIST

8'6" Dale V-bottom.

9'3" Peter Clarke stringerless.

When I first saw the logo on this board

I thought it was a Norm Casey.

It turns out that Peter Clarke

took over the business from Norm Casey in 1965.

Info via http://www.surfresearch.com.au/mp.html