Gaffa tape, Roundtrees, and the Supaglide.

OK my apologies – the longboard bonzer is not fully glassed… queues in the glassing room meant i just wasn’t able to get to it… so i went for a surf instead. “Roundtrees” claimed the Supaglide on session 1… i was enjoying sunset all on my tod at a local point, nice shoulder high one rolls through, i wove my way through the boils, loving it, and then thought I'd cutback… sucked dry, i rode over the reef and Supaglide became Supading. Surfed till the sun went down… then the long paddle back. A beautiful session.

 

I’ve got a great splint from the hand therapists and that and a bit of gaffa tape kept the finger fully protected.

PS: Definitely glassing tomorrow!

Just bonzers… and a couple of single fins

My current mobile quiver… on the left 8’2” Supaglide trihull single fin (for sale), on the top the new 6’4” FreakFish, underneath an MC 6’0” Bumble bee Bonzer 3 but with an 8” Soulflex (which I find works much better backhand on the 3 fin set up), and on the bottom a 6’4” McCoy Nugget with a Starfin which gets wet whenever the waves get really hollow and the only order of the day is barrel riding…

Supaglide gets wet…

8’2” x 21 1/16” x 2 7/8” – trihull  single fin. Catches waves really easily, beautiful take offs, glides smoothly and turns from any where on the board. Hope to make some more of these for those people who want the advantages of a long board but don’t want to have to adapt their style. This is a test board so if you want to try it just let me know, and you can take it for a spin. It is also available for sale, huge saving at £600, used but as new.  £350 now well used but still in good condition and rides beautifully. Everyone who has tried seems to have got barreled on it which can't be bad!
  

Supaglide resin tint

Hot coat, pen-artwork, and gloss and polish to go. Should see the Supaglide 8’2” single fin tri-hull entering the water sometime towards the end of the month.

 

SupaGlide gets it bottom tinted…

Glassed the bottom of the SupaGlide today… went for an amber base with a red/amber/black swirl on the nose. Glassing the deck on Friday and debating the raw-lap route in dark amber. Its going to get double pinlines on the deck and some on the bottom to bring out the tri-hull… probably some custom pen-work too… It’s going to be a single fin with a 10” box.

SupaGlide en route…

Shaped this evening – really pleased with how it came out. I wanted to create a short longboard that would glide and carve really easily from where-ever you stand on the board. The widse point is quite rear of middle to enable this preventing the rails digging in as they would with a more nose riding oriented template.

  

Tim Stafford Custom Surfboard - 8’2” x 21 1/16” x 2 7/8” – trihull single fin