: :

: This discussion is a bit old but I thought I'd revive it. I took a
: crack at this last year. The board shape is based on Tom Blake's
: Hollow Wooden surfboard design from 1939 in Popular Science. Tom
: Blake modernized surfing by taking Hawaiian shapes and making
: them hollow, one of the first to attach a fin, and a sail. He is
: a legend among watermen. Anyway, I always loved the old school
: teardrop shape. I've also had a thing for skin on frame since I
: built a greenland style for my wife. I had some nice long
: Doug-fir left over from that so I built me an experiment. I
: initially intended her as a SUP but she's much more squirrely
: than her 14' would lead you to believe. The design (Blake's
: shape not my woodwork) is quite elegant.

: She's not light buts she's not a tank either. Probably in the 30's.
: Stringers, rails and I think decks are Doug-fir. Ribs are yellow
: cedar. I kind of used a Cape Falcon quick and dirty screw and
: lash type method. I originally tried to steam bend the ribs but
: the curves were tight and there was too much grain runout in my
: wood. So I did a kind of right angle lash to the stringer with a
: wood pin and then slop it with 5200 (aka marine duct tape) kind
: of thing. So she's built like a beast. I paddle her prone on
: Lake Washington. She absorbs chop and glides nicely (she can wag
: her tail a bit). I'll probably build another, probably lighter
: and more designed for SUP. Maybe yost style. Maybe a folder. It
: can be done and it works.

: Some people said a SOF couldn't be a planing hull. The OP was
: talking flat water so that doesn't really matter. Planing hulls
: are slugs at sub planing speeds. To counter that though, I've
: seen pictures of surf kayaks (with planing like bottoms) on
: spiritlline's site.

: As for weight, well. Mine is not light but it's over built with
: heavy wood. And why build a SOF paddleboard... to see if I could
: of course.

: Here's a link to more pic
: http://s1107.photobucket.com/albums/h382/mingmangmao/

Hi Justin.

I think you are only half way through the project.
Looks supiciously like half of a pair of snow shoes to me.
You either have big feet or you get a devil of a lot of snow out there!!!

Les C.