I'm pretty much finished with all the repairs - the patches on two of the four spots I addressed yesterday came off when I removed the peel ply. This afternoon I applied patches again, but used saranwrap instead of peel ply.
I also got Roland's surfboard all sanded down (but used solareez to fill a couple of other open dings - I have to sand those down and then the surfboard is done). And I got his wing board all painted up as well.
And finally I worked on fine tuning the shape of the new wing board. I feel much better about the shape now - had to spend a bunch of time sanding the starboard front quarter to get it close to symmetric with the port side. I also got ambitious and outlined the foot strap insert slots - and even tried to rout one open - but with the sun going down, it was getting hard for me to see the alignment of the router bit. I figured I should wait for sunlight.
I'll get the inserts epoxied in and a fill slurry to level out the area immediately around the inserts. After that, I'll laminate the top deck - innegra nose to tail, and heel patches (to see if I can avoid the d-cell planks and the weight that brings, but without losing strength - I'll have deck pads on the board anyways). I'll still have to install the handle on the bottom deck before I can laminate the bottom deck on - in a nutshell I still have a bunch of work to do on this board. I'm thinking I have a couple more weekends to go.
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