I'm a British guy doing some marine service in India for 6 months, when I'm not working I have walked along the beach and the small waves look perfect for paipo or body boarding. I prefer the natural look of a plywood paipo and it's history, so I have set my mind to building my own paipo in my spare time. Swimming is great but the waves are strong and my friend was pushed down onto the seabed and had a large graze on his forehead. Still that's all part of the fun, at least it's not boring.
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We are a long way from home and decent home depot stores, so I have looked around at the local plywood and can buy some of dubious quality, still we will give it a go.
So basically my friends, we thought we would ask you for a link or email to good template/rails to follow. We could experiment ourselves but we have only 6 months in before rotation back to England and would like to spend that time boarding and not too much time designing.
Saying that though, I would like or prefer to have a nose curve on the flat board for myself.
We were talking in the canteen the other day and it seems all sixteen of us would like to have one and it would be a great day on off duty and there is even talk of a end of posting championship between us. Yes, you can tell the boredom is setting in. Lol
We have three guys to start the fleet of unit Paipo's, myself being one. So a few questions I have to ask if I may?
I was thinking of half inch thick ply, maybe laminating two quarter inch plys together, although I was in town today and the hardware shop didn't have any waterproof glue, still I hope to track some down.
Failing that it will be half inch ply.
Now can I bend a nose curve in the half inch ply?
I shall try if I can. I want it to look detailed and pretty in a natural way.
As for waterproofing/sealing the ply, I was looking at some household varnish, but we have a large ration of paraffin issued to use for cooking, so we may use that and warm it up with a heat gun to soak in and seal it.
Any advice for us would be great.
Some of our mob are starting to climb the walls here and there's another 5 months and two weeks to go. Lol
We are here to teach the villages how to survive a tsunami or flood, and we've eaten enough curry for a lifetime, so fresh fish and fries and paipo boarding would be great for morale and esprit de corp.
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I used to do body boarding in Cornwall many years ago, and the lads are from many coastal towns around the coast of Britain, England, Scotland and Wales.
So if anyone could share with us a good template/rail design or tell us the dimensions, that would certainly set us one our way and have a bit of relaxation time.
The DVD collection has been exausted to dispair, and I keep telling the lads we should get out on the water, this isn't the army. Lol and they agree.
Very kind regards to all your boarders, and thank goodness this website exists.
The may be abke to save our sanity.
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