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Beautiful work

Nice board, it should work.
I strongly recommend swim fins, they will allow you to catch waves very early, like a mini mal.
Enjoy !

Nice job !

Great story.
He surfs very well !

Any photos of the board so far ?

Wow, Nice boards

This Guy is crazy
He has rode Nazaré the same way.

@OG-AZN It might be a first one at that place, at least for a wooden paipo (I have watched videos of bodyboards on it). I lost the wave because there was no longer enough "push" behind, at first the wave was ok but at some point it turns to a really really weak thing, this is why everybody...

Seems like he was a great guy, R.I.P Tom !

Hi there ! In the spirit of testing weird prone things in the water, I had a chance to ride the tidal bore of "Saint Pardon" in France on a paipo board. It's a very weak wave that one normally ride on very long boards exclusively (kayaks, SUP, big longboards). Plus, it was a "small da...

Are you using the fibreglass board much. Once you have a few boards, it is hard to regularly use them all. It is fun, pulling out a board that you haven't surfed for a while. Not that much actually. It's a fun little kneeboard for good waves, but I don't like it as a prone board, too wide on the no...

I added 2 small wakeboard fiberglass fins to the board, as they are very easy to install, all I had to do was to drill 4 holes and screw the fins. I rode the board this morning in clean 4' waves. At first I tried to ride it "kneeboard style" for fun, the fins helped a little bit but not th...

By reducing the thickness you will gain flex, you can also make a concave to make the board lighter.

I tested the board in small waves. It is actually pretty light and buoyant. For a strict prone use, I prefer my thinner and narower plywood board, for it has more flex and drive. I kneeboarded a little bit, super easy to "popup" cause the board is wide and flat, but then it is complicated ...

OG-AZN wrote: ↑Thu Sep 09, 2021 1:01 pm Should be a fun ride with a lot of float. How heavy is the board? All the paulownia boards I've ridden were super light compared to my usual plywood.

Well, it is lighter than pine, but not that much actually.
Although the board is thick with no concave.

The board after 2 coats of linseed oil / "white spirit".
Very long to dry !

Looks great

I started to oil the board with a mix of linseed oil and white spirit (I couldn't find turpentine), looks great.
I still need to apply several coats, but in the end it might be more efficient to protect the board than just a classic varnish, as the oil really penetrates deep inside the wood.

Hi there, I found a paulownia provider near my city, so I got a 50x120cm, 2cm thick blank. I want to make an allround board, simple shape, finless, to use it as a prone paipo or as a kneeboard, depending of the conditions and the mood. I have a polyester resin paipo already (inspired by the elpaipo ...