Showing posts with label hollow surfboard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hollow surfboard. Show all posts
The new 'Gobstopper' hollow wooden twinfin surfboard
The Gobstopper has some extreme dimensions:Length: 6 feet 1 inchWidth : 28.5 inchesThickness: 1.5 inchesHere's the short wide machine waiting for its twin keel fins:
Tunnel fin for the 12'9" Makaha
The Makaha woody has a 10 inch deep singlefin with a 5 inch diameter tunnel fin tucked under a cutaway in the main fin. Here we have the tunnel fin laminated and partly foiled, it is made of 73 narrow strips laminated together in two layers over a cylindrical mould, with a layer of cloth in between. The resin/cloth layer is harder than the wood and is there to provide a hard layer so that the trailing edge can be finely foiled.
Here is the fin setup, in reality the main fin will be set down two more inches into the board. It's an incredibly good fin setup which we have been using for the past 5 years, no other fin arrangement that I have tried has anything like the drive, speed and control that this one has. It is powerful and free running, just the cat's whiskers ! 
Here is the fin setup, in reality the main fin will be set down two more inches into the board. It's an incredibly good fin setup which we have been using for the past 5 years, no other fin arrangement that I have tried has anything like the drive, speed and control that this one has. It is powerful and free running, just the cat's whiskers ! 
Wooden surfboard venting: The Goretex vent
These little Goretex vents from Peter at Casica engineering are easy to install and come in retrofit or glass over options. I am using the glass over option as the retro fit was sold out. The Goretex vents allow air to pass throug the membrane but not water, so they don't have to be opened and shut.Pete Casica, Casica Engineering25631 Via Del Rey, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92675-4458(949) 493-4824 Office, (949) 365-6603 Cell, casica@earthlink.net
The white circle in the middle is a sticker which is supplied to keep resin and dust out of the vent while it is being installed. The goretex plug is a little black bolt which is screwed in to the middle, these should be replaced every 2 years or so according to Peter..
The white circle in the middle is a sticker which is supplied to keep resin and dust out of the vent while it is being installed. The goretex plug is a little black bolt which is screwed in to the middle, these should be replaced every 2 years or so according to Peter..
A school of Fish !
Some pictures of Ekkehard and his team of technology students at the Christchurch Rudolf Steiner School.
The class built Power Fish boards from kitsets, they did an amazing job, completing their 6 boards in exactly one week , now that's efficiency !
Here's Ekkhard with his new board:
And the class building theirs, here are some kitsets still in their wrapping and in the foreground a rocker table. . . Ekkehard devised a collapsible or takedown version of the standard rocker table:
Gluing together one of the two internal frame panels:
A stack of frame panels:
Foiling wooden fins:
A completed hollow torsion box Fish board clamped to the bench for rail shaping:
Three boards being shaped and some broom action needed on the floor
Shaped and ready for resin coating:
Fins set in :
A finished board:
The class built Power Fish boards from kitsets, they did an amazing job, completing their 6 boards in exactly one week , now that's efficiency !
Here's Ekkhard with his new board:
And the class building theirs, here are some kitsets still in their wrapping and in the foreground a rocker table. . . Ekkehard devised a collapsible or takedown version of the standard rocker table:
Gluing together one of the two internal frame panels:
A stack of frame panels:
Foiling wooden fins:
A completed hollow torsion box Fish board clamped to the bench for rail shaping:
Three boards being shaped and some broom action needed on the floor
Shaped and ready for resin coating:
Fins set in :
A finished board:
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