Ugh

 So I got my wooden board out this weekend for hte first time. Had a good session with Francis in San Diego, but when I got out of the water, I noticed that a ridge had formed in a two foot section along the new center plank that I just installed. Not psyched. After posting some stuff on a wooden surfboard forum, I think I've figured out why. Not going into details here, but basically I'm redoing part of what I just redid...

You can see from the shine that there is a small ridge right there on the left. the plank kind of bulged up basically so i'm redoing it.

Got the center plank cut out last night. Now to get it repaired again...

Alllmost done

Got the planks all glued in and sanded smooth and then I glassed over it this past weekend. I got the blue matched pretty nicely too! Here it is getting sanded smooth along the edges of the new fiberglass covering the new planks and overlapping the old glass, outside of the new planks. pumped it's just about done

 

Here it is after the hot coat and a lot of sanding. Just need to add the leash loop again, and it's all done!

Wooden mini progress and other surfboards!

 Coming along on this. Didn't get much done this past week except gluing in the two side planks again.

 I also glued in extra small strips along the top side of the spine and ribs to provide more gluing surface, but not much weight.

 Here I am fitting in the center strip and dry-fitting it first. I got this glued in right after this picture.

And in other news, last night my brother and I glassed the bottom of his board (right), and Neal and I glassed his board today (left). Mike is super pumped, Neal is super pumped, and I am super pumped. Always fun to glass boards, especialy when they come out nice and neat. For Mike's board, we mixed up the blue resin and black resin, then spread out each blue line, then came back, and filled in the gaps with the black resin. It came out much cleaner than expected! For Neal's board, he had this fabric he liked, so we layed that down as a strip across the front third area, as seen. It came out awesome too! pumped!

First day in the water

  I got out to Huntington at the cliffs by about 6 this morning to try out my new board. The waves were supposed to be very small, but it wasn't cloudy, and the water was super glassy, so even though they were pretty small, I had to get out and at least paddle around on my board

 About to make it's maiden voyage

 In the water, floating, not leaking, and feeling awesome underneath me. The sound of water splashing against a hollow wooden board is pretty cool; cooler than water splashing a non-hollow foam board...I'm hyped on it, can you tell?

 The sun finally came up to join the session

 It floats!!!!!!!!!

 These guys were in full force this morning, diving pretty close to me.

 And soaring everywhere

Got a handful of small rides in this morning, enough to get a taste for how the board feels, but not totally. Regardless, I was beyond pumped, as you can tell. It's a totally different feeling of carving around on a wooden board, and I'm super pumped on the shape too! Can't wait to get it out again!