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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.

Send a ride report, once you've surfed it a few times.

I thought about this some more - my fibreglass boards are some where like 6KG. You might even get away with 1/2" . What were you going to seal it with - if it was oil you could always test and refine. If varnished, you pretty much got what you have.

8kg would be too heavy. Do the waves have power? Given you are doing a standing start, you just want something that will get picked up. Have you seen UK bellyboards?

How does it ride compared to your earlier boards?

Surfoils has been riding them for years - I tried an early prototype in junk surf but they have advanced since then.

They don't have a lot of float, but more than if just bodysurfing.

There was a Swaylocks thread on different construction methods.

A Peter Ware model
Is it going to be finned?

So if I put Geoffrey's & Nels insights together, the leather comes from drunken masochistic cattle.

It's kinda strange that they don't even try to include a photo of a paipo board in the marketing. I can see a link to riding a paipo here: "It’s an effortless feeling. Like you’re floating, mindless, free." but the rest looks like it comes from the Surfers Journal. I'm not sure what "...

Gday M,

I had a fun bank to myself up the sunny coast this morning. I used to go to the spit a bit about 10-12 years but crowds just took the fun out of it.

I'll look at instagram when i get home in a day or so. I need to find my password, its not something iI ook at much.

Gday Mercury, I live in Brisbane and usually surf south of the border but with the exception of a few brief windows, haven't made it down that way much in the last couple of years. I grew up on the Gold Coast but rarely surf there. I've been rediscovering the Sunshine Coast and am heading up there f...

That style of fin could be ok, especially if you are riding into the shallows.

Iv'e surfed around Peniche - what are the waves like down your way?

If it is a true bonzer fin, it will have an angle that that may be unsuited to a standard board.

I'd still recommend trying the board without fins to see how it rides. You have a simple planning device, not an overly sophisticated one

Funny you mention finned & finless. Below are four photos of the same board. The first two are before and the third photo is after the deck glass was stripped off and rocker was forced into the board. Why, because it nose-dived too easily. I rode it yesterday with fins, first time I've ridden a ...

The fins and narrower tail could all contribute to less planning speed. You also have some flex effect.

Having said that, a board that goes well in better waves is a good thing. You now have a quiver for different conditions..

Personally, I'd try it without fins first. If it is sealed, just see how it rides and then think about you need to add.

I like cork decks. I'm getting one onmy next board, but my board is fibreglass.

It's not going to have much floatation. Take it out for a test before you do all the work. Cork won't add a lot of flotation. A foam core and cork may be worth considering.


The photo possibly gives a distorted view.

Thanks.

So overall 33 mm or about 1 6/8" thick. The colour of the wings had me baffled but seems this colour is vinyl wrap.

Now for some photos of it in action.

Thanks Chrispi. Is the layer of glass between the 2 x 5mm sheets for binding them/strength or does it also form the rough shape of the wings, like a foundation? If the trailing edge of the yellow rail covered with an additional 2 x 6 ozs, how thick is the rest of it - 1 x 6 or 3 x 6 oz? Presumably t...

Footage of John Waidelich, Jim Growney and others. Stig, John's son had provided the footage.

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