WASARESCUEBOARD 4

This is going to be a 9' version of the

10' egg with the blue swirl I made myself last year.

These old rescue boards are not quite wide enough

to fit a 23" wide board into.

So I had to add 2" to the width.

I purchased some 1" thick foam sheets, 

cut them out to fit either side of the centre ply stringer

that had been cut to the exact rocker and thickness

that I wanted.

This new stringer was then glued into the blank.

After a couple of hours mowing all

the excess foam away.

I was ready to mark out the outline.

Dimentions and the templates used.

Ready for some glass.

Bottom lam down.

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It has been since superseded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.

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.

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.

WASARESCUEBOARDTWO pt4

Gloss coats done.

Bottom camber.

Check out those piggie hips.

Finished deck and bottom.

Well almost.

The gloss coats have not

been wet and dry sanded or polished.

WASARESCUEBOARDTWO pt3

Bottom lam done.

As I suspected, it sprung back a bit.

So I set the board up with a string line

nose to tail over the deck.

The deck was weighed down with the weights

to the correct measurements.

Then the distance between the string line

and a point on the deck was taken.

The bottom lam was done.

The string line was reattached to the board.

Measurements taken and adjustments to the rocker made

by propping up the ends and adding a little weight

to the bottom.

WASARESCUEBOARDTWO pt2

The original plan was to do a resin swirl in the lams.

But because the rocker needed weighing down.

The board could not be flipped to cut the laps.

So it was done on the blank.

A couple of colours, a squeegee and a brush.

Pour on the base colour.

Then pour on the secondary colour.

And squeegee from the stringer out to the rails.

Then clean up the rails and runs with the brush.

The blank went a bit wild after I stripped the glass off.

Way to much rocker.

No stringer.

You get that.

Nothing 4 litres of water can't fix.

First lam on deck.

Just add water.

I suspect the rocker will spring back a bit.
So I will need to nut that one out prior to the bottom lam.

WASARESCUEBOARDTWO pt1

A few years ago I built a board

out of an old surf club rescue board.

Well I'm at it again.

As with the first one I had to make it wider.


So I cut it down the guts and
and added a 100mm section
that I cut out of another rescue board.
This was pre shaped to the desired rocker.




All glued up
and ready to go.




The new blank has been planed down.
And the planshape drawn onto the blank.

The planshape has been cut out

and the outline has been cleaned up.