The Life Amphibious

The first day of several days of strong trades started today.  I went to Hickam after work and setup the board, foil (HS1850/300), and wing ...

Got up early this morning and got the bottom deck fill/seal coated.  3.5 ounces of epoxy and 6 TDs of aerosil. Knocking this out...

I had to stay at work longer than planned today.  I still got home with enough time to get the mast track reinforcement block installed.  I ...

I felt compelled to get more done on the wing foil board.  I went ahead and put a fill/seal coat on the top deck and the rails.  This is to ...

And since I was working with epoxy, I got the bottom fill coat on this rejiggered HS1550.   I'll get the top coat on tomorro...

After waking up from a mega nap, I dialed in the details with the 120 and 180 screen sanding this afternoon. Different v...

I dragged Marlon out of bed on this, the morning of the beginning of his 19th trip around the great fusion reactor we orbit (Happy 18th Birt...

To start - Marlon and I did a dawn patrol.  The waves were a hair smaller than yesterday, but still super fun.  We were paddling out while y...

After the dawn patrol this morning, La and I ran a bunch of errands - Lowe's to get wood, Office Depot, Seafood City, and the Post Offic...

Marlon and I hit the dawn patrol the morning.  Dead winds, full tide and an intermittent swell greeted us.  The parking lot was pretty crowd...

Marlon was working when I got home from work yesterday, so I pulled a solo evening session.  The waves were super clean, the tide was hoveri...

Marlon and I pulled an evening session yesterday.  Tide was low, swell was picking up and the wind was pretty much negligible.  No surprise,...

Took the saran wrap off and sanded down the high points.  The carbon conformed pretty well and there were only a few spots where I'll ha...