how the little fish approached finish

tacked on, glassed on fins. Hotcoated then sanded mostly by hand, patched some little sandthrus. clear acrylic sealer coat for a sort of satin finish and called it good.

sanding

sanding sanding sanding, sanding your fingerprints off, wearing out the paper, cutting a new sheet and starting again.

This is what I was up to before leaving for the basque

this is the bottom of the long fish laid up with the milky white opaque resin.

the white spots are a result of tripping over my glass scissors. (They must be over 30cm long and weigh a kilo) but a happy accident.

large and little
A couple of fish, the long fish is a 10ft fish-simmons style design, fryeinspired

the shorter is a 5'10'' belly to single fish-simmons, shaped by eye using the principles of the bigger board. I surfed this board here and there for the last couple weeks in french and spanish beachbreaks. it had a load of projection and felt great to surf but to really open it up I think I will replace the single foiled keels with double foilers, less toed in.

I glassed the long fish with a 6+4 deck with 60z deckpatch and 6oz bottom. It's got a nice weight to it, excited to getting it finished and into the water.

fins out

ENNUI tri-fin set for 10' Fish simmons. Fins foiled from birch ply, glassed with double 6oz

Roughed out a set of 4 with the power sander for something stubby with its wide point quite far forward. might finish them by hand or potentially make a singlefin instead. decisions.

SLOB JOB

resin swirl number 1, the detail is there but the contrast is off. stay tuned.

show us your bones

5'6''x23''x3''

5'10''x21 1/2''x2 3/4''

6'3''x19 3/4''x2 5/8''

2nd resin pigment attempt

Lyles 5'11'' from the previous post :-

a slightly more ambitious bottom-lamination. This particular photo makes it look a million times better than it actually turned out. from what I've figured out now it requires setting the circles, taking out all the excess over the same rail, then flooding the outline with clear resin. It was a lot of fun, and a learning experience - I hope I can lay the deck down a little cleaner. Considering free lapping it too