Garage Works - 4/15/2025

This was work from yesterday.

I got Duke's board repair done.  When I was sanding the repair down, I couldn't isolate the sanding to just the repair.  So I ended up painting the area around the repair.

This was the big chip. 

And this was the chip in the tail.

Then I sprayed paint onto the other side of the board to make the board look more symmetric.

And I went ahead and opened up the big Starboard Peanut board.

I'll have to fill this gap.

After I took this picture, I went ahead and place a layer of fiberglass and epoxy on the bottom of the slot.

I also trimmed more fiberglass to epoxy into the bottom of the reinforcement block - this board is big and the foil is going to apply a large moment arm to the board.  And I can't use carbon because this board may be used with a Gen2 Foil Drive Max.

I'll add carbon over the top of this block - but using it underneath would have killed the signal transmission.

Garage Works - 4/14/2025

Duke got a new to him downwind SUP foil board yesterday.

He turned around and took it out (and was able to get up on foil with the Lift 170).

He looked the board over and found 2 chips.  Then he spun the board into something and made a third chip.  He texted on his way home and asked if he could drop off the board.

I got a bunch of stuff done around the house (as we have a contractor coming over tomorrow to prep to paint the exterior) - but did also manage to get epoxy into the chips.

This is the small one.

This is the big one.

And this one is on the tail.

Tomorrow when I get home, I'll sand these down and check for air bubbles.