Found the remains of an ancient windsurfer up in the shed roof.
Pondered on what to do with it for a while, it's an old moulded urethane blank with lots of big air bubbles on the bottom.
Thought of a 50cm board for yoyo, but we decided it'd be too heavy, so I eventually talked myself into a 38cm speed board.

Used a layer of 10mm closed cell blue styrofoam to bridge the airbubbles, and 2oz glass underneath the corecell, then 2 layers of 4oz on opposite bias. + of course some 6oz carbon around the impact areas.
So far it's 5kg fully glassed, paint, sugar deck and straps will add a bit more.



The wobbly centre line is because there's 3 of them, 1 on the board and one on each layer of glass.
The angled lines are along the weave of both layers of cloth to help me line up the biased weave.
When I did the top, I thought I'd be even cleverer and use a colour for one of the layers so I could tell which layer was which. Trouble was the blue ink in the chemy pen I used dissolved in the epoxy! Then I realised I'd put the top layer on at the same angle as the bottom after I'd started to wet it out. So the wet soggy layer had to come off, get turned over and somehow put back on without most of the guide lines.
Luckily I had Pas to help me, thanks mate, would have been a real struggle on my own.

Had to try and match Fangy's polish job, probably not quite as shiny but it's not too bad.




just got to do the salt deck, glue on pads, screw on Dakine front straps and make and fix a back strap, another pic when it's finished.

Awesome

That looks great mike. Looking forward to reading how its maiden voyage goes.

Thanks guys, may be this weekend if it gets strong enough, but I guess I'll be very tempted to give it a try even if it isn't!
can't resist it here's another view.

Mike,
Do you use a gelcoat for final coat and polish like hell?

It's two pack urethane, wet and dried down to 2000 grit, then polished with cutting compound.

Very very nice Decrep!

Best of luck for the maiden

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decrepit said..
Had to try and match Fangy's polish job, probably not quite as shiny but it's not too bad.

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decrepit said..
It's two pack urethane, wet and dried down to 2000 grit, then polished with cutting compound.

......or you could just Photoshop it :-)

that looks pretty sweet looking board you've got there Mike. Can't wait to see it

Thanks guys, may be this weekend if it gets strong enough, but I guess I'll be very tempted to give it a try even if it isn't! can't resist it here's another view.

That's the trouble with new gear, you tend to use it even if the conditions aren't really right for it. Especially at this time of year.

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Thanks guys, may be this weekend if it gets strong enough, but I guess I'll be very tempted to give it a try even if it isn't! can't resist it here's another view.

That's the trouble with new gear, you tend to use it even if the conditions aren't really right for it. Especially at this time of year.

But not using new gear is like leaving your presents unopened under the Xmas tree...its just not possible to resist getting them out for a play

Nice Mike. Mmmmm shiny.

Maiden voyage yesterday at Boombas, plugged the 5.0 Koncept and my 16.5cm/55deg weedy into it. Starting off wasn't quite as hard as I expected, but then there was plenty of wind!
Unfortunately the conditions were beyond my skill level, just too much chop and overpowered on my 5.0, wasn't game to bear off, just sailed parallel with the chop, but still hit 32, so board feels very slippery, can't wait to get it on flatter water.

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decrepit said..
Maiden voyage yesterday at Boombas, plugged the 5.0 Koncept and my 16.5cm/55deg weedy into it. Starting off wasn't quite as hard as I expected, but then there was plenty of wind!
Unfortunately the conditions were beyond my skill level, just too much chop and overpowered on my 5.0, wasn't game to bear off, just sailed parallel with the chop, but still hit 32, so board feels very slippery, can't wait to get it on flatter water.

Wish I was overpowered on my 5.0 anytime recently