Garage Works - 10/9/2023

Dewaxed took off the deck pad on this 5'1" fish

I personally prefer not to get straight polyester and polyurethane boards - primarily because the heel dents and pressure dings that seem to easily emerge on this construction.  But for $250 - I'll pull this into the latest round of experimentation.

You can see the pressures on this picture of the top deck.

The bottom deck is nearly in flawless condition.

The Octopus deckpad came off, but some residue didn't come up.

This was the biggest heel dent.  I am nitpicking here - in general, this board is in great condition (again - at $250!!!!).

This is the point where I stopped cleaning and turned to outfitting.

I put on a Retro Fish deckpad - it actually provides really good coverage.

And I waxed the deck - two coats of tropical/base coat and two coats of warm water wax.

I'll keep the weights on the deck pad for a few hours to get a good foundation on the adhesive.

I'm going to start out with the Hess Noriega keels on this one.

At 5'1", I do have some concern and being able to get this situated, but it is 34+ liters (so the same as the Cymatic).  More fun experimenting!

Garage Works - 2/12/2022

Rumor mill had everywhere but north shore at none to 1'.  Instead of trying to fight for waves at a single takeoff spot, I opted to catch up on some things that have been on my mind.  First up was changing the fins on a couple of boards (so I can get the keels on the Sunday).  I took the Eric Arakawa's (and the Solara) off the Greedy Beaver and replaced them with the Grennan quads.

And I took the fins off the Pigfish (these actually came from three different sets of fins). 

After that I checked on the OR A Series Glide - came back from the repair shop.  I went ahead and got the leash and harness line back on.

I'll do an inflation test soon.

Marlon also got restarted on shaping his performance longboard.  He did not want to use the electric planer, so he was making lots of passes with the surform.

We also had to pick Noe up from her Laser racing, so we took off a little early so he could purchase a board that caught his eye yesterday - the Firewire Seaside at 5'2" in Helium construction (with a cool paint job to boot).

Stopped off at Kailua Beach Park on the way to Noe - not a single kite, wing or sail out...

We got home and Marlon and I waxed up our boards.  La noted we have different styles and methods for waxing boards.

I prefer my method - just look at the consistency and the tight, tiny wax bumps.

There is supposed to be a swell in bound - hopefully it gets here soon - I have a bunch of things to get done and I might actually do them all if there isn't any wind or surf.

A Proper Wax Job

This is what a good wax job on a surfboard should look like.

The smaller and more plentiful the bumps are, the better the wax will allow you to "stick" to the board.

You should never rush the waxing of your board.  This was half a bar of base coat and a 1/4 of a bar of tropical wax.

Nephew Got a New Board

La's sister's son ask me to check out  aboard he was interested in buying - a 7'6" Torq funboard.  Needless to say, he got it.  Taught him how to properly apply wax (we'll see if that lesson sticks - it didn't with Marlon...)

Wax Job

We had time to kill waiting to pick up Marlon from music practice - so what better way than to wax up a new board.