Almost finished my latest experiment. A small 50deg weedy for the new 38cm speed board. This is meant for surface weed conditions like Fangys last summer and Albany at low tide. (if we get enough wind for it hopefully)

Basil says his endgrain balsa, stainless and carbon is going well, so it was overdue I made myself one using the same technology.
Rebated the back edge of the stainless, so the carbon butts up against the side of the rebate, instead of thinning out on top of it.
Used 5mm thick stainless bar, so aprox the first 5mm of the leading edge is stainless. Hope it works, because it's a bugger to make!

Anybody out there want to CNC/mill small strips of stainless?





here the pre-shaped stainless is tacked on to the end grain palm with the 10m steel epoxy.




here it's getting close to finished, carbon over the palm and stainless, some hard bog on top of that and boxed.
Just needs some barrel bolts in the base and final paint job.

looks good captn.
looking foward to seeing it in action.

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ratz said..
looks good captn.
looking foward to seeing it in action.

Thanks mate, but hopefully you don't see it when it's in action, I'd like to keep all of it in the water!

very nice Cap'n. looks like an excellent use of a palm tree:-)
so is it one piece of palm tree? I am thinking if it is, then it was a pretty big palm tree if it is that diameter..

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fangman said..
very nice Cap'n. looks like an excellent use of a palm tree:-)
so is it one piece of palm tree? I am thinking if it is, then it was a pretty big palm tree if it is that diameter..

That's only a small piece, I think a 40 cm fin is possible out of it.

Blimey!

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decrepit said..

fangman said..
very nice Cap'n. looks like an excellent use of a palm tree:-)
so is it one piece of palm tree? I am thinking if it is, then it was a pretty big palm tree if it is that diameter..

That's only a small piece, I think a 40 cm fin is possible out of it.

crikey Mikey it must have been huge- I hoped you checked there wasn't an orangutan in it before you lopped it down

Didn't see any orangutans, but who knows what was in it.




Here it is before being cut down.




The big one on the left, every time there was storm, the dead leaves would take the TV antenna out.