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.