Love, love, love my RRD quad. Wanted a smaller one also, so could not pass up an RRD twin which is so close to the same shape......
and then butcher it......


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Anyway, kept me out of trouble, in the workshop for a few hours waiting for wind. Maybe at the end off the season when I am lighter and it is blowing properly I may get to use it hahaha

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Mark _australia said..
Love, love, love my RRD quad. Wanted a smaller one also, so could not pass up an RRD twin which is so close to the same shape......
and then butcher it......


Before:









After









Anyway, kept me out of trouble, in the workshop for a few hours waiting for wind. Maybe at the end off the season when I am lighter and it is blowing properly I may get to use it hahaha

Congratulations. It is difficult to work with epoxy. Clean and good job. Please inform me after your board test.

^^^ thanks but not as hard as making a sail mate!! You did a great job there

Looks good Mark.

What was your hope from modifying the board- more tail-end grip, better up-wind motoring, or just like the smell or epoxy?

Great job Mark, how about some during the process pics. Where did you manage to get the slot boxes from??

^^^ slot boxes were easy to get. Your board is now missing two of them

I didn't take that many pics as I went along, will throw another one or two up tonight maybe.

Phil, I prefer quads to twins unless it is onshore and even then some smaller fronts or moving them back seems to do it for me. This will be interesting to compare as twin and quad on same day

Few pics in stages

Routed and sitting at right level (top of box level with underside of glass, minus a p00fteenth)



Rebated glass around perimeter




and all done looks more like a quad with fins in :)

Wow that's impressive. You even got the graphics looking spot on.

"Rebated glass around perimeter" did you try to split the laminate? Or did you go all the way down to the HD foam. I tried to split the laminate on my last job, and wss successful, but wonder if i needed to.

^^ no only took off about 2mm, only the glass....... so router just kissed the divinycell layer.

So (1) the glass that goes around the box lays over onto the d'cell (stronger)
(2) the glass "cap" over the box is then flush with the existing level of the board bottom (less sanding AND no water can ever get in if the glass lifts from the box)

Nice!

Ah the old p00fteenth a fraction bigger than a bee's dick.
Oh thanks loving my new twin now