light wind, flat weedy water, new board design.

Hi Decrep,
Tee stringers are easy and hold the rocker while building.
I use a jig saw blade with 35mm long cut, run it down the blank middle (or either side of fin box position in your case) to 1400mm.
110mm wide Cf strip, wet out and poke it into the slot with a steel blade, flatten the remains on the hull, 48gr glass and lay on the PVC.
Like you, I use XPS for all the insert surrounds. Good waterproofing.
My latest (2022) light air board is 73x240x112 lit . 495 tail, 514 nose, as Bugs says. nose width.

Thanks guys,
Yes Kato I plan on putting the track a tad further back.
I still haven't quite made up my mind how to do the stiffeners.
The mistral blown bottom I repaired had them D'cell and glass, but they had fractured, maybe when I pulled the bottom off. I think D'cell will be OK, but with carbon edges to make them really stiff. So carbon rovings in first then D'cell wrapped in glass, with any excess flared out onto the bottom.

So today, picked up the blank from Future foams.


Notice length and width are a precise cut, but thickness is shy 2mm.
I'm not complaining as, with the Bugsy reduce rocker, I had plenty of thickness to spare.

Then I visited Mark, nice professional looking place he's got at 2nd wind.
As my workshop isn't optimised for board making, (mainly because I've filled it with too much junk), and my brain keeps getting important steps wrong, I'm lacking confidence in getting the board in the vacuum bag before the resin goes off. So I've asked Mark to do the top sandwich and glass it for me.
I think I can get the bottom d'cell on as that's much less complicated, so once I've done that and shaped the deck and rails, Marl will take over.
So this board will be a real collaboration,
Bugs helped me design the board, Mark is going to do the deck sandwich and glass, Using Flex's technique Fangy will be fin experimenter.
Am I then justified in calling it a Wave Wands, How do I credit everybody else?

Once I git the board to the workshop, I made a bit of progress.

Hot wired top and bottom, cut out the rails, and did some preliminary fairing, it still needs a little bit more, the outline isn't quite sweet.


Tomorrow I have to visit Bunnings and get another surform, no idea what happened to the old one, like a lot of things these days, I can't find it.

Tomorrow, finish fairing the rails, shape the bottom, put the closed cell foam and stiffeners in.
Check the vac bag still works, and hopefully get the bottom sandwich on Wednesday.
We'll see, I normally don't get as much done as I think I will.

their website says it's in stock here, but that can lie, if it isn't I'll check out A1 hardware and salvage.

From my relatively newbie to it all status, I wound up with a fangy 28 for my 92cm SLW through serendipitous events and found myself at green island for my first time on a short wide board.
Was good. Survived.

Lots more riding on the board the following season with pointers and I still love the feel of the board with 28ff.

Side note: I dig light wind sailing at speed zones. I reckon it's a great way to learn.
Getting a go at GI, LG and Budgy gave me a look at what speed sailing is, without going too fast in hectic wind, and it blew my mind.
I'm 65kg.

Decrepit you are different league to me but just wanted to say, for learners, fabulous kit for introduction to speed zones in ultra light wind I reckon.

First thing I did today, was load it into the wagon to see how it fits.
Looks good/


With the tailgate closed there's a centimeter or 2 clearance. So I'm happy with that.

But as anticipated things don't go as fast as I think. there's epoxy set times to take into account.

I was thinking of getting the closed cell foam on the tail as well as the stiffeners today.
However, the tail piece needs to be on and bottom shaped, before stiffeners go in. So at the moment, I'm waiting for the resin to go off.
Sorry no more pics, I was a bit distracted, I'll get more tomorrow.

No pics, but I made a bit of progress,

Shaped the bottom, subtle W forward, dead flat under footstraps, slight tail rocker with small V.
Prepared and cut out channel for stiffeners.
Cut out D'Cell, well it may be gurit, I've lost track.
Cut out cloth to go under the sandwich. carbon in the impact zone, to help the stiffeners and try to prevent -ve rocker developing.
Then tested the vacuum system, it's bean a while since I used it. I couldn't find the flyscreen section I use to seal the opening, so I improvised something else. Seems to work good enough.
So I should get the bottom sandwich on tomorrow, then shape the deck Friday.

Semantics really.
When you forget the conventional description, you have to make one up.

There is one texta on each ear and your holding the carbon roll.
I love the wooden toolbox with the old saw in it. I bet there is also a tooth setting device and a file to sharpen the teeth .

Board out of bag, looks good.


got the bottom rails shaped, next step to shape the deck, maybe over the weekend, but I think there's a bit of a seabreeze going to happen.

Bit more exciting today, starboard rail just about shaped, port rail half way there.


Rails are a bit thin at the moment, because there's another 3mm to go over them, when I hand it over to Mark.

So after the rails are shaped, I add the blue foam underneath the mast track and any footstrap plugs not covered by the tail section.
Not sure how I'll go tomorrow, there may be wind, we'll see.

Fully agree with Fangman, love the pictures and the progress reports.

Do I understand it right that you replaced all the white foam in the tail section with XPS, down to the bottom sandwich?

More talk than work this morning. Bugs dropped by to give his seal of approval, and and another mate came by to talk about building a SUP.
However I did get the other rail shaped, then weighed it.

No progress today, I was needed in the office this morning and this arvo we had a great seabreeze