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Here are the BRD file and a PDF of the templates. The volume is a lot lower than those chanell islands boards too.
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More for style than anything else, I've filled in the swallow tail (making it full and round), and extended it to 6'9" in the process. I did a bit of photoshop trickery and made a passable outline.īy the time I'd drawn this, it looked eerily like the Channel Islands inspired 6'9" boards that some other folks have been carving in cedar. Unfortunately, the only photos I took had too much perspective to be able to trace outlines/profiles from. It was a stable yet nicely maneouverable 6'8" thruster, with a very subtle swallow tail. Ironically, the board had come all the way from Aus too. When I travelled all the way from Australia to Canada, I borrowed a local friend's board to surf at Tofino. Nose rocker is a bit of a delicate balance, as a low rocker will help with paddling speed, but she tends to pearl my 8' low-nose-rocker fun board (as do most of us)
It's ideally going to be her usual ride for some time to come. I don't really plan to build this as a 'training only' board either. I don't want to build her a long-board, because I'd like her to be able to duck-dive, and tear it up some, which she isn't far off doing. It will be 'glassed' with bamboo cloth and epoxy (equivalent of one layer of 4 oz cloth each side). This means that winding it up is a little harder from a stand-still (though perhaps offset by the floatation.), but will carry more momentum through flat sections of a wave. They are more bouyant for a given volume (meaning you can get away with shallower profiles), and they carry a bit more mass therefore momentum. I build HWS boards-hollow cedar or Paulownia.
She's ~173cm (~5'10 for those clinging to an archaic, flawed system of units), 65kg (~140lb as above) and is fine at standing, balancing, etc when she does catch a wave. She's normally quite tough, but I guess she hasn't yet developed wave-catching guns yet. She's only starting to surf, and struggles with paddling.
I've been working on a board for me Kimmy. I'm still giddy with the smell of resin, little sleep and several cups of tea, but please oblige me your patience.